Generally not the big ones. They are big enough to have a local branch office that can fined if caught. Small and medium sized companies are much harder to fine as they just don't operate in your country.
When the big ones do they are very careful about it, so they can claim to be in a grey area. Tire companies know there is child labor, but they are buying from the parents, and they make sure outside of harvest those kids get a great education (when the kids grow up their either leave, or work the plantation as medical or management staff and not labor). You can still say they are in the wrong, but they have made a place where you can understand the grey
Sure, international corporations violate human rights, but unless you provide proof these lithium corporations are, then we can just assume they aren't.
Largest companies digging in the dirt creating the vast bulk of the world's lithium concentrates (prior to refining in Chima | Malaysia) are in Chile and Australia and all are listed on the Canadian Toronto TSX exchange.
Minerals and Resources rules for exchange listing are pretty tight with respect filing third party independant reports that assess mineral volumes and estimates, economic feasibility, environmental impact, and human rights etc.
While it's possible that some things are covered up in these relatively modern capital projects (eg: like conditions mining copper in PNG in days of yore leaving substantial impacts today) it's unlikely due to modern communications and the known fact that everything gets out and doesn't remain hidden - more so today than back when PNG was literally and figuratively obscured by clouds.
Austrlia is keeping clean, and you can knock yourself out looking into
Not unless significant blocks of their shareholders do . . .
Giving a shit about the environment, child exploitation, etc. by larger investment funds has increased in recent decades , there's been a rise in "ethical investment".
Ergo TSX companies care more when third party reports about bad practices are filed at the exchange.
I just did, by explaining in which cases belief can be said to exist, and you have no reply. You don't seem to be following very closely nor employing any modicum of what could be considered "reading comprehension skills".
TBH you write like a bot trained on debatebro teenagers.
There's no specific claim being made here. It's just that assuming a lithium mining company (which, as an industry, has a terrible human rights record) would not commit human rights violation because it is a multinational company is a strange assumption to make.
Not only strange but also illogical. Corporations make more profit when they act illegally. From lobbied protectionism to monopoly, exploitation of natural resources to pollution, hiring of ex government officials to bribery and gift giving and favors, and of course from hiring underpaid and abused workers in countries without labor protection, to knowingly using slave labor, and more, they have billions of reasons to break laws and violate human rights. And every time they do it, they pay a small fine that is dwarfed by their profits and nobody goes to jail.
You don't even have to look overseas. PG&E has caused hundreds of billions of dollars in damage due to wildfires caused by cost cutting; they don't want to do the maintenance they're legally required to do. Entire communities are left homeless and people are killed. And the company gets a tiny fine and the executives get bonuses.
It's actually amazing to me that corporations don't do it more often. It pays to be a piece of shit company.
