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Barrick Gold

Barrick Gold is a mining company founded in 1983 and based in Toronto, Canada. It is one of the world's largest producers of gold and copper, operating mines and projects in 18 countries across North and South America, Africa, Papua New Guinea and Saudi Arabia. In 2022, Barrick Gold had 23,000 employees and made USD 11 billion in revenue, of which nearly USD 10 billion came from its gold production.

Summary

Barrick Gold ranks 17th overall and 13th in the Extractives sector. Its best performance is on embedding respect and human rights due diligence. It has an opportunity to improve its disclosure on human rights practices.

Barrick Gold has the 3rd highest score for human rights due diligence this year. It is one of just 4 companies that describe their global system to prevent, mitigate and remediate its salient human rights issues, including how this process applies to its business partners and how affected stakeholders are involved in the process.

The company has an opportunity to disclose how its internal processes for managing human rights translate into concrete human rights practices, including how it determines and pays a living wage, as well as how it identifies, negotiates with and compensates tenure rights holders around land rights issues.

Ranking position: #17 /110
Total score: 37.1 /100

Measurement theme	Score	Rank (0-110)
Governance and policy commitments	#1 3.6 /10	#26
Embedding respect and human rights due diligence	#1 15.9 /25	#7
Remedies and grievance mechanisms	#1 7.5 /20	#15
Performance: Practices	#1 5.6 /25	#42
Performance: Responses	#1 4.6 /20	#27

Sector
Extractives	#13

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