This presentation will focus on how HRIA/DD is built into this technical standard, the actual challenges with accomplishing this, and how to strengthen the 'do no harm' imperative.
Across the mining industry companies are applying the new tailings Standard GISTM, for which the first Requirement is to carry out Human Rights Due Diligence. This presentation will focus on how HRIA/DD is built into this technical standard, what are the actual challenges with how this Requirement is being fulfilled, and how to strengthen the 'do no harm' imperative. This perspective is informed by recent work on mining and GISTM conformity issues primarily in Latin America.
Susan Joyce is President of On Common Ground Consultants and Industry Fellow at CSRM. She is a specialist in business and human rights, indigenous rights, social performance primarily in extractives.