Investors in renewable energy projects must use their influence to limit the rife levels of human rights abuses, a global non-profit has urged.
Research from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) found renewable energy is the third-worst sector for attacks on human rights and environmental activists. The BHRRC said 152 allegations of abuse had occured since 2010, two thirds of which have been in the past two years, with alleged killings, cases of intimidation and dangerous working conditions. Liontrust signs up to ShareAction's initiative on workers' rights BHRRC's latest report, Fast & Fair Renewable Energy Investments unearths allegations in every region and across each of the five sub-sectors of renewable ...
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