Daimler AG is taking other vital steps to make respect for human rights close to raw curtain mines: the company has partnered with the NGO Netherlands Terre des Hommes for an allocation and has joined the Responsible Mica Initiative (RMI) to combat child labour in India.Mines of mica Cooperation with aid organization Bon Pasteur against child labour in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, launched in 2019, has been initially successful.
Start of social with Terre des Hommes in India
Cooperation with Terre des Hommes Netherlands in Jharkhand, India, aims to allow young people close to mica mines to go to school and provide financial money to their families. Mica, a raw material, is used, among other things, to unload the brilliant effect of vehicle paints.The task aims to prevent parents from having to send their children to paint in mica mines.At the same time, a smart education increases the likelihood that young people will be able to earn a living later in adulthood and that the circle of family members will not have work income for children.In addition to schooling opportunities for young people, local structures want to strengthen themselves and data deserve to be provided on youth rights.Daimler and Terre des Hommes Netherlands also collaborate with regional aid organizations.The ed allocation will first be extended until 2022.
Renata Jungo Brungger, board member of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG guilty of integrity and legal matters: “We are taking consistent action against child labour with 3 measures: our human rights system, on-site audits and cooperation with non-profit organizations until 2022, we will project in India and Democratic Republic of the Congo to the song of 1.2 million euros.Cooperation with Terre des Hommes and the Responsible Mica Initiative is another vital step in combating child labour in mining regions and creating long-term opportunities for people.This is a component of our sustainable business strategy to achieve sustainable positive replacement at the local level.
Markus Schofer, board member of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG, guilty of Daimler Group studies and leading operating director of Mercedes-Benz Cars: “The social, ecological and economic facets are the basis of Daimler’s sustainable business strategy, for us the extraction and processing of ethically guilty raw fabrics begins at the beginning of the price chain , we are very concerned in the chain of origin, reaching the raw fabric mines, so we care about the assignment with Terre des Hommes and sign up for the Responsible Mica Initiative.
Join the existing activities of the Responsible Mica Initiative
By joining the Responsible Mica initiative, Daimler AG intends to take even more coherent action against child labour in mines in the future.The initiative is committed to a fair, guilty and sustainable mica source chain in India.To this end, Daimler AG is with other companies, NGOs, industry associations and government representatives to expand the criteria for situations of guilty execution, to local communities and to help the status quo of a legal framework for the mica industry The initiative aims to completely eliminate child labour and unacceptable execution situations in mica mines until 2022.
Human rights risk system
Daimler AG uses a systematic technique to combat human rights violations early and actively.A strategic technique for respect for human rights, the human rights system, has been developed for both its own majority-owned corporations and their chains of origin., the company has known that potentially decy uncooked fabrics aim to make the chains of origin of potentially decy raw fabrics transparent and to take risk-based measures.
Two years ago, Mercedes-Benz Cars made its paint chain transparent, checked mines and transformers, and paved the way for the supply of mica.manufactured locally around mica mines and beyond the boundaries of the company’s own chains of origin.”At Mercedes-Benz, we follow the advice of NGOs and other external stakeholders not to exclude countries of origin from critical raw fabrics as source resources, but local paintings to the situation,” Markus Schofer said.
Successful start of assignment with Good Shepherd International Foundation in Congo
Daimler’s cobalt technique is similar to that of mica.In addition to these measures, such as audit controls in its own chains of origin, the company has already introduced a social allowance opposed to child labour in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the non-profit organization.Good Shepherd International Foundation (GSIF) in 2019, with the aim of responding to the living situations of the population of the Kolwezi mining region, the four-year allocation was given to successfully begin and reach milestones in just over a year.
“A key detail of the assignment with GSIF is to give Kolwezi youth the opportunity to get an education and clients for the future.Thanks to cooperation with Bon Pasteur in Conpass, more than three hundred young people have been able to move to school in the last twelve months,” Renata Junpass Brengger said.More than 50 of them had worked in the mines in the past.In addition to education, young people also receive physical care.
Another emphasis is on creating livelihoods of choice, especially for women, through the development of sustainable agriculture, for example.More than 50 women have been educated in agricultural techniques.In the first year of the project, more than two tonnes of crops have already been grown.harvested, which is a vital source of food and source of income for families and therefore an option to run in mines.Last year, schooling for parents, schooling on children’s rights, and schooling were recommended for controlling clashes for peaceful disputes within the local network.Marked.
Daimler AG focuses on sustainable responses to mobility creation.This also includes the guilty supply of raw materials, mica and cobalt.By supporting anti-child labour activities in India and Congo, the company is tracking its trail of human rights protection.contribute more than 1.2 million euros of investment for this target until 2022.
SOURCE: Daimler
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