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In view of the Glencore AGM on 28th of April 2022, we have launched this petition. Ivan Glasenberg is handing over the company to his successor Gary Nagle. This generational change may give hope for some changes in the company's behaviour. Glencore is still responsible for environmental damage, human and worker rights violations and destruction of livelihoods. Water and air are polluted in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Zambia, Chad, Peru and Colombia, livelihoods are destroyed in Peru, Colombia and Bolivia and human rights violated in Congo, Peru and Colombia, among others. For this reason, we ask for real changes in the company’s behaviour in human rights policies, transparency and consultation, stringent environmental protection policies and fair employment and labour union policies. To give strength to this petition, we are trying to collect as many signatures from organizations and individuals as possible.

We, the undersigned organisations and individuals, make the following demands of Glencore.

Main demands

• Human Rights Policy: Disclosure of all Human Rights Impact Assessments and subsequent Action Plans, as well as social baseline and criteria to measure improvements
• Transparency about policies, plans and impacts on neighbouring and affected communities, stakeholders and workers as well as direct and open engagement with communities about their needs and concerns
• Stringent environmental protection policies and measures, dust control, efficient water management including no wastewater effluents to rivers and surrounding lands, no river diversions, no pollution and no drying out of water sources
• Implementation of environmental controls to stop ongoing pollution of air and soil, and appropriate remediation of adverse impacts
• Implementation of human-centric policies to stop involuntary resettlements and displacements of entire communities for development
• Real processes of Free Prior and Informed Consent in all mining projects that affect indigenous and tribal people, granting transparent and truthful information about all impacts and respecting fully the decisions of the affected communities 
• Employment conditions that are fair, non-discriminatory, non-precarious and safe, including better wages, tightening of safety measures, strengthening of unions' rights, and improvement of health-related and social benefits
• Giving priority to remedy, truth finding and reparations to the communities affected by environmental damages and gross human rights violations

Examples of human rights violations and environmental incidents that underlie our demands

So far supported by:

Advocacy on Human Development, Zambia

AFREWATCH, DRC Congo

Africa Europe Faith & Justice Network, Belgium

Alejo Community Support Project, Zambia

Alternative - die Grünen Zug, Switzerland

Andrew Lees Trust, UK

Arbeitsgruppe Schweiz-Kolumbien (ask!), Switzerland

Badil resource center, Palestine

BastA!, Switzerland

Brücke – Le pont, Switzerland

Coal Action Network, UK

Colombia Solidarity Campaign, UK

Corner House, UK

Development Education Community Project, Zambia

Diakonia, Sweden

EarthRights International, USA

Earth Thrive, UK

Earthworks, USA

Ecosistemas, Chile

Future Preneurs Zambia, Zambia

Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker, Switzerland

Global Justice Now, UK

Green & Justice, Zambia

Greenpeace, Switzerland

GRÜNE, Switzerland

Incomindios, Switzerland

Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) Global Economy Project, USA

Jacqueline Gilbert, University of New Hampshire, USA

KEESA, Switzerland

Koalicija za odrzivo rudarstvo u Srbiji / Coalition for the sustainavble mining in Serbia

Liliana Santo Domingo, Human Rights Defender, Spain

London Mining Network, UK

MiningWatch, Canada

MultiWatch, Switzerland

Nacion Wayuu, Colombia

Olga Lucía Mendoza, Human Rights Defender, Spain

Palestinian alternative refugee center

Peru Support Group, UK

Pensamiento y Acción Social, Colombia

Plataforma América Latina mejor sin TLC

Re:common, Italy

SETEM Catalunya, Spain

SOLIFONDS, Switzerland

SP Schweiz, Switzerland

Stop Blood Coal, Ireland

Syndicom, Switzerland

TerraJusta, UK

terre des hommes schweiz, Switzerland

Unia, Switzerland

Unión de Afectados por Chevron-Texaco (UDAPT), Ecuador

VPOD, Switzerland

Women and développement, Palestina

WoMin African Alliance, South Africa

Zastitimo Jadar i Radjevinu / Protect Jadar and Radjevina, Serbia