Company: RTNTF
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-006642
Chunk: 171

Company: RIO TINTO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 20-F
Chunk 171
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 access, mine development, native title, impact benefit and other legally binding compensation agreements.

| Annual Report on Form 20-F 2024 | 85 | riotinto.com |

Strategic report | Our approach to ESG | Social

Human rights Respecting human rights is core to our values and to delivering our business strategy. Commitment We are committed to treating everyone with dignity and respect – from our employees, contractors and workers in our value chain, to the communities we partner with, and others affected by our activities and business relationships. We know that our activities, and those of our partners, can have both a positive and a negative impact on human rights. By embedding rights-respecting and ethical behaviour throughout our business, we will be better able to prevent human rights harm. To do this, we rely on: – empowering people through an inclusive and supportive business culture that aligns with our values – embedding human rights due diligence into business processes and systems – engaging with stakeholders to identify and address root causes of human rights harm. Regardless of the operating context, our approach to human rights remains consistent and aligned with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and other international standards and frameworks.

| For more informationsee ourHumanRights Policyat riotinto.com/humanrights |

2024 progress Governance We continue to evolve our human rights performance to help prevent our involvement in adverse human rights impacts. We regularly review and update internal standards, systems and processes to integrate human rights due diligence and promote more responsible and ethical ways of working. In 2024, we provided the Sustainability Committee with an update on our human rights performance. Salient human rights issues We identify the priority human rights issues that could severely impact people through our activities or business relationships. These issues consider our operational footprint, value chain and external contexts and include: – land access and use – Indigenous Peoples’ rights – security – inclusion and diversity – community health, safety and wellbeing – workplace health and safety – labour rights (including modern slavery) – climate change and just transition We continue to identify issues related to water and environment, and nature as emerging salient issues. In 2025, we will review our Group-wide salient issues. Assets conduct self-assessments to enable a more complete understanding of their risk context. There has been a significant increase in the quantity and quality of human rights risk self-assessments at assets ( 59 completed in 2024 compared to 24 in 2023). These self-assessments - whether standalone or integrated into broader enterprise risk assessments -