SALC’s Business and Human Rights work is integrated within its other programmatic areas and focuses on the following objectives:

• To address lack of accountability for environmental pollution by mining companies.
• To address corporate complicity in international human rights violations.
• Research on intellectual property rights and access to medicines.

On-going cases:

Malawi: Challenging uncompensated disturbances, damages, loss and suffering due to extensive to extensive mining and prospecting operations
Zambia: Challenging the taking over of customary land and allocation to commercial farmers and the destruction of property and contamination of the environment without consent or compensation