Company: RTNTF
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-006642
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Company: RIO TINTO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 20-F
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 help assets prioritise and take action to prevent human rights harm that is, or may be, connected to our activities. Examples of assessments included at our Pacific Aluminium assets as part of the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative certification; at 26 closure assets; and an independent human rights impact assessment at Simandou. Security and human rights assessments are ongoing at assets in more complex security contexts that involve both private and public security arrangements.

| For more informationsee our2024Sustainability Fact Bookat riotinto.com/sustainabilityreporting |

Our business relationships We partner with communities, business partners and other stakeholders to advance respect for human rights in line with international standards and our values. Our joint venture partners We continue to work with joint venture partners to provide human rights technical support and monitor human rights performance, including through Board and Committee roles for non- managed operations. Suppliers Using a risk-based approach through our third party due diligence process, we pre- screen our potential business partners and complete desktop human rights reviews. In 2024, 6,359 third party due diligence reviews were completed, and 174 were escalated for human rights review. For higher-risk suppliers, we have developed action plans to support ongoing monitoring and evaluation of identified risks. We expect our suppliers (including subcontractors) to adhere to our Supplier Code of Conduct (SCOC), which includes respecting human rights. We updated our SCOC in 2024, alongside a new set of Sustainability Procurement Principles. The updated SCOC better reflects our commitments to sustainability, ethics and social responsibility with updated requirements on labour and human rights. In 2024, we focused due diligence efforts on higher-risk supplier categories, including logistics and renewables, due to operating contexts, and potentially higher-risk workforces. Our approach focuses on influencing broader industry change through trusted partnerships, rather than avoidance and termination of relationships. We also appointed a panel of independent human rights auditors to assess the labour rights performance of suppliers in high-risk categories and completed 3 pilot audits across key operating regions.

| For more informationsee our annualModern Slavery Statementat riotinto.com/modernslavery |

Grievance and remedy Effective grievance management can enable more trusted relationships and help prevent human rights harm from occurring in the first place. Every asset is required to have a grievance mechanism. We are committed to providing for, or cooperating in, remediation when we identify we have caused or contributed to human rights harm. We may also play a role in remediation where we are directly linked to harm through our products, services or operations