HUMAN RIGHTS
COMMITMENTS AND INITIATIVES
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. and PT Freeport Indonesia
have made strong, unequivocal commitments to human rights.
This commitment is expressed in a company policy, formally
adopted by both the Board of Directors of Freeport-McMoRan
Copper & Gold Inc. and the Board of Commissioners of PT
Freeport Indonesia, to conduct our operations in a manner
consistent with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to
educate our employees about human rights, and to protect any
employee who reports suspected violations. We require
appropriate personnel to certify annually that they have
neither participated in nor are aware of any human rights
violation. If a human rights violation is reported,
information about that violation would be forwarded to the
Indonesian Human Rights Commission.
We have also joined other mining and oil and gas companies and
human rights organizations in endorsing the joint U.S.
Department of State-British Foreign Office Voluntary
Principles on Human Rights and Security. These Principles are
included in appendices to this report. Twice each year,
participants in the voluntary principles program meet to
review the implementation of the principles and to seek better
ways to provide security for extractive industry operations
around the world to protect employees and investments while
assuring the highest level of human rights compliance.
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. representatives regularly
participate in these meetings.
Overseeing the development and implementation of our policy on
human rights is an internationally recognized expert, Judge
Gabrielle Kirk McDonald. Judge McDonald has been a
distinguished civil rights attorney and U.S. federal judge and
formerly served as President of the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She serves as Special
Counsel on Human Rights to the Chairman of the Board of
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. and is an Advisory
Director for the company. Judge McDonald reports regularly to
the Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. Chairman and Board of
Directors on human rights issues and developments.
See Appendix B and
D in the Appendices. |
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