Global Witness has rebuffed London Bullion Market Association's (LBMA) response to its open letter, accusing the gold industry of "dragging its feet" on human rights issues.
Commenting on LBMA's response to its open letter accusing the body of failing to protect human rights in its supply chain, a spokesperson for Global Witness said it was "disappointed" with the "generic response" to its studies which demonstrate issues within the Responsible Sourcing Programme on a "very granular level". LBMA calls for 'global effort' to reduce gold's 'illegitimate sector' "LBMA still refuses to comment on our finding that an LBMA refiner sourced gold from a company that was linked to conflict gold," a spokesperson said. "LBMA should admit that its Responsible Sourc...
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