{"id":15837,"date":"2019-02-12T10:10:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T10:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&#038;p=15837"},"modified":"2019-02-25T18:56:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T18:56:15","slug":"dam-collapse-delisted-global-compact","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/dam-collapse-delisted-global-compact\/","title":"In the wake of deadly dam collapse, organizations call for Vale to be delisted from the Global Compact","content":"<div class=\"tts_content_wrapper_1\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An international group of civil society organizations submitted today a request for the exclusion of the Brazilian mining company Vale from the United Nations Global Compact, the largest network for corporate social responsibility in the world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In light of the collapse of another iron ore waste tailings dam, this time in Brumadinho (Minas Gerais State), which has taken, up until now, the lives of 165 people, left 160 missing and 138 homeless, the organizations claim that Vale has violated the Global Compact\u2019s principles on human, labour and environmental rights, by not carrying out adequate risk assessment, not taking the necessary measures for prevention and mitigation and by failing to adopt measures of non-repetition after the 2015 collapse of the Mariana dam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Brumadinho disaster shows that favouring profit over safety has been Vale\u2019s standard operating procedure.\u201d The institutions claim in the allegation that, \u201cIt took another lethal dam collapse with unmeasurable human suffering and environmental destruction for Vale to announce a long due decision to decommission high-risk \u2018upstream dams\u2019 that are built with obsolete and unsafe technology.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Allegation-to-the-Global-Compact-Dam-collapse-in-Brumadinho-11022019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read here the allegation in full.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The allegation says that Vale deployed extensive political and financial resources to resist legal accountability for the first disaster. It further claims that the company adopted a discourse of commitment to the highest levels of corporate social responsibility, but has failed to review its business model, its procedures and its policies in order to prevent further catastrophes<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSuch a method of doing business is in conflict with the principles and the spirit of the Global Compact\u201d, the institutions said. \u201cVale must bear the consequences for its failure to prevent such an outrageous disaster from happening just three years after the Mariana dam burst.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the document, institutions call for Vale\u2019s delisting from the Global Compact and the company to submit regular reports on measures being adopted to remediate environmental damage of both the Brumadinho dam Mariana dam bursts, the latter of 2015. They also call upon the Board of Directors of the UN Global Compact to require that Vale demonstrate its commitment to change its corporate culture, policies and procedures, through concerted actions that would make it a company that truly respects human and environmental rights<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The allegation is signed by: Asociaci\u00f3n Ambiente y Sociedad, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, Cl\u00ednica de Direitos Humanos da UFMG, Conectas Direitos Humanos, DAR (Derechos, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales), Defesa dos Territ\u00f3rios Frente \u00e0 Minera\u00e7\u00e3o, DPLF (Due Process of Law Foundation), FARN (Fundaci\u00f3n Ambiente y Recursos Naturales), FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights), FUNDEPS (Fundaci\u00f3n para el desarrollo de pol\u00edticas sustentables), Global Justice Clinic of the New York University, Greenpeace Brasil, Justi\u00e7a Global, MAB (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens), Articula\u00e7\u00e3o Internacional dos Atingidos e Atingidas pela Vale, MiningWatch Canada, PODER (Project on Organizing, Development, Education, and Research), SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About the UN Global Compact<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Launched in 2000, the UN Global Compact was an initiative of the then UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan with the aim of encouraging the worldwide business community to adopt corporate practices guided by principles of human, labour and environmental rights and fight against corruption. Over thirteen thousand signatories working in more than 160 countries participate in the Global Compact. Companies commit to ten principles and to provide information on their activities through periodic reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"tts__custom-position_bottom_fixed\" ><\/div>","excerpt":"<p>The organizations claim that Vale has violated the Global Compact\u2019s principles on human, labour and environmental rights<\/p>\n","author":2,"featured_media":15836,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[3938,3960,4113,456],"tema":[],"class_list":["post-15837","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-brumadinho","tag-dam-collapse","tag-global-compact","tag-vale"],"acf":{"author":false},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"The organizations claim that Brazilian mining Vale has violated the Global Compact\u2019s principles on human, labour and environmental 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