During International Human Rights Day, Cerrejón reaffirms its commitment to Human Rights

During International Human Rights Day, Cerrejón reaffirms its commitment to Human Rights

19 de diciembre de 2023. We are aware that our activities have the potential to impact the human rights of communities, employees, and contractors, as well as the environment. We are therefore committed to respecting them through the management of identified risks and impacts. Since 2005, we have had a Human Rights Policy, updated in 2011 with the implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

Since that time, we carried out a human rights due diligence process aimed at strengthening the identification, prevention, mitigation, and compensation of the impacts caused by the operation, enhancing dialogue with our stakeholders, and addressing complaints that arise between worker communities and contractors and conducting performance reviews and continuous improvement processes.

Our due diligence process is made up of the following elements: A high-level commitment or corporate policy, A process for the identification, prevention, and mitigation of risks and impacts on human rights, Communications with stakeholders, Integration into the corporate system, Complaints Handling, Assurance and continual improvement in due diligence.

As part of strengthening due diligence, in 2022, we established the Cerrejón Human Rights Governance System to involve the different areas of the company, evaluate the performance of the Complaints Office, and monitor the measures defined to improve our social and human rights performance. In addition, the human rights perspective was included in the corporate risk management system. For this reason, we reviewed the possible effects of risks and impacts on the human rights of the company's stakeholders, to maintain coherence in all corporate prevention and mitigation efforts. Similarly, identified opportunities for improvement of controls over cultural heritage and the sustainability of resettlement.