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Demand transparency from Gilead. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has brought forward Proposal 6, asking Gilead's board to report on how their patent practices impact patient access to more effective and affordable treatments. Shareholders deserve the truth. Vote YES on Proposal 6 today. #GileadProposal6 @AHFCares

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⚡The 2026 Lead the Charge Leaderboard shows that the automotive industry already has the tools to build electric vehicles with cleaner, more responsibly sourced materials. 🚗As one of the highest ranked automakers, Ford must leverage its best-in-class human rights due diligence policy to ensure the rights of communities impacted by the battery supply chain are respected. ⛓️💥Many automakers have taken important initial steps to clean up their supply chains, and Toyota has fallen further behind its competitors, inching closer to dead last in the comprehensive ranking of automakers from around the world. 🪨Automakers have real leverage as buyers of critical minerals. They should demand responsible mining — strong sourcing standards, respect for Indigenous rights, and a seat at the table for communities affected by mining. Learn more about the Lead the Charge Leaderboard at: www.leadthecharge.org Read more about Ford’s supply chain practices at: https://lnkd.in/eGQYHQZU Read more about Toyota’s ranking at: https://lnkd.in/ems5uM2b Read more about Toyota lobbying against the clean transition at: https://lnkd.in/ede9R5nu   Read more about the dangers of weak voluntary standards like the Consolidated Mining Standard Initiative at: https://bit.ly/CMSI-Autos

In a shocking and dystopian turn, The Guardian just exposed how Toyota is using video games and cupcakes to cajole its employees into lobbying for dirtier air. Toyota is literally making a game out of poisoning communities and accelerating climate change. https://lnkd.in/eM9RNXpT

As London Mining Week came to a close, Public Citizen thwarted attempted mining industry greenwashing at an award ceremony and gala dinner hosted by Resourcing Tomorrow. As investors, governments, major mining companies, and executives of the Consolidated Mining Standard Initiative (CMSI) walked into the dinner, Public Citizen projected: “The CMSI is a weak standard that poses risks to governments, investors, and mineral purchasers.” For more than two years, we have been raising awareness of the dangers and risks of the Consolidated Mining Standard Initiative. Last week ,we made sure those behind the Consolidated Mining Standard could not hide from the truth.   Mining companies have an extensive track record of environmental damage, human rights abuses, violence and corruption. In an attempt to greenwash these practices to consumers, governments, and investors, the CMSI is working to create a new voluntary standard and certification platform that walks back existing norms of responsible business conduct for the mining sector. If finalized, hundreds of mining companies around the world will be able to “certify” their projects as responsible without meaningfully addressing environmental harms and human rights abuses. Rather than contributing to stability in mineral supply chains, the CMSI will further fragment the global standards landscape and increase systemic risks to investors, governments, and mineral purchasers resulting from supply chain disruptions.   The modern mineral rush cannot be used as a justification to drive a sector-wide race to the bottom through laws and voluntary standards. Join Public Citizen in demanding strong mining sector standards: https://lnkd.in/eaqwAZjM https://lnkd.in/e3xsTWVK

Last week, Public Citizen launched a public action at New York Climate Action Week as part of a campaign against the Consolidated Mining Standard Initiative (CMSI). The CMSI is the mining industry’s latest attempt to write its own rules under a new voluntary standard that falls far below existing norms and laws. The mining industry associations behind the CMSI, including the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), are more committed to the facade of transparency and supposed multi-stakeholder engagement than substantially improving outcomes for impacted workers and communities around the world. The mining industry has a history of human rights abuses, corruption, and pollution. It is already the most toxic industry in the United States. It is also a dangerous industry for anyone who speaks out against it. The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre reporting found that the mining sector has consistently been the most dangerous for human rights defenders. According to Global Witness, since 2012 more people have been killed opposing mining than any other industry. This has particularly impacted women, Indigenous Peoples and Global South communities. And now, the Consolidated Mining Standard Initiative, is trying to consolidate the power and resources of the mining industry to make a standard that greenwashes, rather than changes, their harmful behavior. Civil society has been engaging with the CMSI since September 2023 and Public Citizen since May 2024, as recapped in this public record. We have outlined our concerns in meetings with the CMSI executives, in public analyses, in various emails to all members of the advisory groups, and via input to the first public consultation. Despite this engagement, we have not seen changes that will meaningfully protect workers and communities who are already impacted by mining operations. The CMSI started as a mining industry-led effort and continues to be. Despite the ‘veneer’ of representation, the governance model has inadequate guarantees to avoid the risk of co-option or capture of non-industry groups. The CMSI falls below existing international norms and best practices the industry already follows, which if unaddressed, could lead to rubber stamping mines as responsible that aren’t addressing their harms to workers, Indigenous peoples and communities. Join Public Citizen in calling for strong mining standards that offer real environmental safeguards, protect human rights, and reduce adverse impacts on frontline communities. https://lnkd.in/eaqwAZjM

This week, the world learned that a breakthrough HIV prevention drug will be available for $40/year in 120 countries by 2027. Yet millions of people in countries with growing HIV crises still are left out. Today, health groups came together to support access for everyone, everywhere. We had a critical discussion about continuing the fight to bring medicines to all, with the first step being bringing that breakthrough — at that price — to the world. Thanks to UNAIDS' Winnie Byanyima and Unitaid 's Tenu Avafia for joining us today and for your leadership. Thanks to health leaders Emily Bass, Mitchell Warren, Asia Russell, Amanda Banda, and Isata Dumbuya. And to our event co-hosts UNAIDS, Health GAP (Global Access Project), People's Medicines Alliance, UAEM (Universities Allied for Essential Medicines), Treatment Action Group (TAG), RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund, and Partners In Health.