The Norwegian Authorities’s Pension Fund withdrew its funding in Vedanta following a report by their Council of Ethics that an affiliation with Vedanta and its subsidiaries carries, ‘an unacceptable danger of complicity in current and future extreme environmental harm and systematic human rights violations.’
CO3 is prone to such complicity by persevering with to offer Vedanta with ‘CSR’ companies.
h2. ‘Impartial’
CO3 has publicly defended Vedanta’s plans to mine Niyamgiri, however describes itself as an ‘unbiased advisor’ to the corporate. Many multinational companies use comparable ‘unbiased consultancies’ to offer a veneer of respectability.
The 8,000 Dongria Kondh, certainly one of India’s most remoted tribes, have vehemently opposed the mine, saying it will finish their lifestyle without end. The Dongria Kondh have lived within the Niyamgiri Hills since time immemorial, and are completely depending on its forests. They develop crops on the slopes, and collect wild fruit within the dense forests.
h2. ‘Parroting’ Vedanta’s denials
Survival’s director Stephen Corry has mentioned, ‘Individuals who care about human rights ought to boycott British corporations which dispossess tribal peoples and firms representing them. That features British consultancies like CO3, which parrots Vedanta’s denials that the Dongria Kondh folks face destruction’.h2. From the net
“*CO3’s web site*”:https://www.co3.coop/
“*Vedanta’s web site*”:https://www.vedantaresources.com/
“*PR Week: Survival targets CSR company*”:https://www.prweek.com/uk/search/article/859703/Survival-Worldwide-targets-CSR-agency/
“*CO3 feedback on Survival’s Fb web page*”:https://www.fb.com/video/video.php?v=1118191751997&ref=mf
h2. From Survival’s web site
“*Survival targets CSR consultancy CO3*”:/information/3887
“*The Dongria Kondh*”:/tribes/dongria
“*Progress Can Kill*”:/progresscankill
“*CO3 feedback on Survival’s weblog*”:https://www.survival-international.org/weblog/2009/03/13/a-hero-of-philanthropy
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