The document approved by the Audit Committee of Barrick Gold Corporation outlines the procedures for receipt of complaints regarding accounting, internal accounting controls or audit related matters.
The purpose of this Guideline is to provide guidance to community relations grievance officers or others who may receive community or operational-level grievances or complains (e.g. employees in human resources, security and exploration) concerning the escalation to the legal department of human rights and/or significant code of conduct issues brought to their attention. There are a number of ethical issues that need to be escalated to managers or grievance officers while all other potential non-critical human rights issues can be addressed through normal grievance processes. This guide helps identify issues that need to be escalated.
The Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act (ESTMA) requires companies that are engaged in the commercial development of oil, gas, or minerals to publicly disclose specific payments made to all governments in Canada and abroad. This includes in-kind payments and attribution payments. This document defines the requirements to help ensure that the report for ESTMA are properly prepared, supported by adequate documentation, reviewed and approved to allow for accurate reporting of payments.
The Global Whistle-blower Management Guidance helps identify potential approaches to protect the confidentiality of the identity of any individual who raises a concern or question or reports or provides information regarding ethics matters (“Whistleblowers”), to enable the appropriate division to conduct an appropriate, fair and thorough investigation and post-reporting event monitoring.
The purpose of the guidance is also to ensure follow up and monitoring of Whistleblowers such that retaliation resulting from reporting concerns, providing information or raising questions can be easily identified and dealt with.
UK based NGO that focusses on promoting human rights around the world and promoting corporate accountability and transparency. Manages a database of 7,000 companies and act as a clearinghouse for media reports and other human rights related information on the positive or negative action of their database listed company. May be of assistance as one of many information source when conducting due diligence on business associates.
BH has 13 trustees and 48 staff dedicated to advancing human rights in business and eradicating abuse.
Their 18 Regional Researchers are based in Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Kenya, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Myanmar, Philippines, Senegal, South Africa, UK, Ukraine and USA. They are supported by two offices in London and New York. Oversight is provided by our board of trustees which consists of former business people, human rights, development and environmental advocates and academics.