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Where Business and Human Rights intersect.

Many Australian corporations are doing great work overseas. They are investing in developing countries, providing job opportunities to local people and working closely with local community organisations.

Some Australian companies, however, are also ignoring people’s most basic human rights. They are forcibly removing people from their land, dumping cyanide laden waste in waterways that are integral to livelihoods, and, on the whole, facing none of the legal ramifications they would face at home.

Australia should be climate change leader at G8

Oxfam has welcomed today’s announcement that Climate Change Minister Penny Wong will be attending the G8 environment ministers meeting in Kobe, Japan, but encourages her to live up to the Federal Government’s commitment to take the lead in international action.

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