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Sustainability Report
• In the value chain, we seek to establish relationships with suppliers and contractors which share our
principles and values while promoting awareness and application of human rights protection; and
• With local communities, we maintain continuous engagement based on dialogue and mutual respect for their
rights to access land, access to water, freedom of movement and freedom of expression.
Our community grievance handling mechanism allows the host community members to freely submit their
complaints and grievances to the Company’s management and respective departments. We established a
Human Rights Task Force in 2010 and subsequently developed the Human Rights Program which addresses
our corporate sustainability policy in the area of human rights. Within the framework of the program, we provide
customised training on Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights to our security service providers.
In this way, we ensure that they are aware of our commitment to upholding human rights and any violations or
workplace-related risks are duly prevented. In the reporting period, we recorded no such violations.
Forced or compulsory labour
We do not employ or support any type of forced, compulsory or child labour as defined by the ILO as “all work
or service which is extracted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person
has not offered himself voluntarily”. We strictly adhere to our principles that an employee should have the right
to leave the work premises after completing the standard workday and to terminate employment after giving
reasonable notice. MMC does not employ a person who is under the national legal age of employment and in line
with our recruitment policy, we employ people aged 18 or older. In the year under review, the Company has not
employed any people aged under 18.
Transparency
We report our financial statements and the results of our operational and sustainable development performance in
accordance with all applicable rules and legislations, to ensure maximum transparency that is commercially viable.
We are one of the active supporters of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (“EITI”) in Mongolia and have
been disclosing our payments to the government since the start of our mining operations in 2009.
The National EITI Council in Mongolia operates at national, regional and local levels to expand its outreach
to aimags and soums with active mining operations. In 2015, MMC had an active participation in sub-council
meetings in both Umnugobi aimag and Tsogttsetsii soum and disclosed its payments to the government, spending
on community development projects, tax payments to the local government, sponsorships and environmental
issues, among others. The meetings were attended by representatives of the National EITI Council as well as
local civil society organizations, local administration and local council members. We believe that direct and twoway
communication with all of the above participants is essential in ensuring that our information reaches various
stakeholders in a transparent manner.
Our project related information is disclosed to our host communities every year as part of our Public Consultation
and Disclosure Plan.
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