{"id":15974,"date":"2019-02-12T10:08:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T10:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=15974"},"modified":"2021-04-05T18:11:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:11:13","slug":"in-the-wake-of-brumadinho-organisations-call-for-vale-to-be-delisted-from-un-global-compact","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/in-the-wake-of-brumadinho-organisations-call-for-vale-to-be-delisted-from-un-global-compact\/","title":"In the wake of Brumadinho, organisations call for Vale to be delisted from un Global Compact","content":"

On Tuesday 12 February, an international group of civil society organisations submitted a request for the Brazilian mining company Vale to be delisted from the UN Global Compact, the largest network for corporate social responsibility in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

In light of the collapse of another iron ore waste tailings dam in Brumadinho (Minas Gerais State) which until now has taken the lives of 165 people, left 160 missing and 138 homeless, the organisations claim that Vale has violated the principles of the Compact on human, labour and environmental rights, by not carrying out adequate risk assessment, not taking necessary measures for prevention and mitigation and by failing to adopt measures of non-repetition after the 2015 collapse of the Mariana dam (Minas Gerais State).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Brumadinho disaster shows that favouring profit over safety has been Vale\u2019s standard operating procedure.\u201d Moreover, in their allegation the organisations say that it took another lethal dam collapse with unmeasurable human suffering and environmental destruction for Vale to announce the decision to decommission high risk \u2018upstream dams\u2019 built with obsolete technology.<\/span><\/p>\n

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