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Total number of incidents of violations involving rights of indigenous
people and actions taken.
1. Relevance
The number of recorded incidents involving the rights of indigenous peoples provides information about the
implementation of an organization’s policies relating to indigenous peoples. This information will help
indicate the state of relations with these stakeholder communities, particularly in regions where indigenous
people reside or have interests near operations of the reporting organization. The information also
provides an additional entry point for support groups. ILO Conventions 107 and 169 address the rights of
indigenous peoples.
2. Compilation
2.1 Identify incidents involving indigenous rights
among the organization’s own employees, and in communities near existing operations that are
likely to be afected by planned or proposed future operations of the reporting organization.
‘Incidents’ refer to legal actions, complaints registered with the organization or competent
authorities through a formal process, or instances of non-compliance identiied by the organization
through established procedures such as management system audits or formal monitoring
programs.
2.2 Report the total number of identiied incidents
involving indigenous rights during the reporting period.
2.3 Report the status of the incidents and actions taken
with reference to the following: • Organization has reviewed the incident;
• Remediation plan is being implemented; • Remediation plan has been implemented
and results reviewed through routine internal management review processes; and
• Incident is no longer subject to action i.e., resolved, case completed, no further by action
by company, etc.
3. Deinitions Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples are those whose social, cultural, political, and economic conditions distinguish
them from other sections of the dominant national community, or who are regarded as indigenous on
account of their descent from the populations which inhabited the country, or a geographical region to
which the country belongs, at the time of conquest or colonization or the establishment of present state
boundaries and who, irrespective of their legal status, retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural,
and political institutions.
4. Documentation
Potential information sources include the reporting organization’s operating procedures and guidelines on
the issue. Other information may be supplied by country managers and by legal specialists of the reporting
organization. Data on indigenous people within the workforce may be obtainable from employee records.
5. References
• Charter of the United Nations, Preamble, San
Francisco, 1945. •
International Finance Corporation’s Performance Standards on Social Environmental Sustainability,
2006.
• ILO Convention 107 Indigenous and Tribal
Populations Convention, 1957. •
ILO Convention 169 Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, 1991.
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, 2007.
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HR10 Percentage and total number of
operations that have been subject to human rights reviews andor impact
assessments.
1. Relevance
Reporting organizations need to be aware of their special responsibility to respect human rights. The
presence of the reporting organization’s operations can have positive and negative efects in relation
to respecting on the protection of human rights. Organizations can afect human rights directly, through
their own actions and operations, and indirectly, through their interaction and relationships with others, including
governments, local communities and suppliers.
Information reported for this Indicator will provide insight into how far the reporting organization takes
human rights considerations into account when making decisions on their locations of operations. It will also
evaluate the potential of its being associated with, or considered complicit in, human rights abuse.
2. Compilation
