RIO TINTO

Early day motion 1325, tabled 14 May 1998 by Michael Clapham (Labour). Signed by 37 members.

That this House congratulates the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions, which represent 20 million workers in 114 countries on their lobby of Rio Tinto's Annual General Meeting on 13 May and on the publication of The Stakeholders Report - Rio Tinto Tainted Titan, presented on the same day at the Stakeholders Factual Meeting in the Methodist Central Hall, which examines the company's human rights record and scrutinises the environmental and health and safety performance of its operation; and calls on the company to honour the rights laid out in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights which it claims to have adopted into its business practice.

Signatures by party: Labour 35, Labour/Co-operative 1, Liberal Democrat 1.