"Mponco and hundreds of other former mineworkers who now want mining giant Anglo American to pay up for exposing them to dangerous dust levels.
The London-listed firm's South African subsidiary is being sued on two continents in cases that could run into millions of rands in damages."
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Anglo American is a Global Compact participant since 2004/07/27
Anglo American plc was a 2010 Gold Contributor of the Foundation for the Global Compact
This blog provides information on how U.N. Global Compact participants' walk the talk. The GC is a voluntary initiative at the strategic level to engage businesses towards sustainability principles. There is however a risk of 'blue-washing' by covering up corporate misbehaviour and law infringement from large MNEs through poorly enforced 'Integrity Measures' and weak U.N supervision. Let's 'WE', civil society stay tuned!
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