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Car companies should drive up human rights and environmental standards at bauxite mines and aluminum refineries and smelters. A new report by Inclusive Development International and Human Rights Watch explains how.

Inclusive Development International and Human Rights Watch will hold an online news conference on July 22, 2021 at 10am EDT to launch our new joint report, “Aluminum: The Car Industry’s Blind Spot – Why Car Companies Should Address the Human Rights Impact of Aluminum Production.”

Take a stand in solidarity with communities around the world who dare to push back, who dare to take on the “impossible” fights and who dare to win.

Inclusive Development International, Equitable Cambodia and Mighty Earth sent an open letter to Peugeot calling on the automobile company to use its substantial influence to ensure redress for Indigenous communities in Cambodia harmed by its business partner.

We’re pleased to share our 2020 Annual Report which features several significant victories that have been many years in the making and provides an overview of a number of our ongoing campaigns and cases.

Inclusive Development International deplores the arbitrary arrest and detention of Ugandan human rights defender Maxwell Atuhura and calls for his immediate release and an end to the repeated attacks on human rights defenders and environmental activists in Uganda.

Inclusive Development International and Human Rights Watch submitted joint comments on the Aluminum Stewardship Initiative (ASI) Performance Standard and auditing process, aimed at providing the maximum protection to communities affected by bauxite mining.

This exciting new tool spearheaded by the Made in China Journal and supported by Inclusive Development International provides a collaborative platform for tracking China’s complex and rapidly changing international activities.

Following the signing of an investment decision for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), the #StopEACOP Alliance published a statement responding to Total’s recent attempts to talk up its supposed green credentials.

In 2020, Cambodian plaintiffs representing more than 700 farming families won a landmark appeal allowing them to move forward with their class action against Asia’s largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol. Here is the court-mandated class action announcement.