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EOS began engaging with G4S in 2009 on health and safety management. Read about the company's progress on our labour rights objective.

It is often stated that employees are the greatest assets of companies, but this is hardly reflected in their reporting. Investors are now provided with substantial and often regulated information on governance matters. Greater awareness of climate change issues meanwhile has led to a necessary increase in environmental disclosures. Within the ESG acronym of environmental, social and governance matters, the S remains the least developed area in reporting, the missing piece.

We recently returned from the OECD’s 12th Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains in Paris. The forum gave its attendees an opportunity to engage with stakeholders from miners to smelters and refiners, local communities, NGOs, government organisations from Africa’s Great Lakes region, as well as global technology, consumer and automobile companies. We have come away with several lessons, namely that a) existing due diligence processes do not address human rights issues at mines