In 2025, the Business and Human Rights Centre documented nearly 800 attacks (790) against defenders in 80 countries raising concerns about business. This is more than two attacks on average every day and more than we’ve tracked in a single year since 2020. Nearly one third of attacks (30%) were against Indigenous Peoples, who comprise just 6% of the world’s population.
BHRC invited TotalEnergies, TotalEnergies EP Uganda, EACOP, Uganda National Oil Company, Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), Stanbic Bank, Kenya Commercial Bank, First Quantum Minerals, Korea Mine Rehabilitation and Mineral Resources Corporation (KOMIR), Dinant, Leonardo, Freeport McMoRan, PT Freeport Indonesia, PT Mineral Industri Indonesia, Silvercorp Metals, Salazar Resources, Curimining, Dutch Development Bank (FMO), Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), Exxon Mobil, Energy Transfer, Gibson Dunn and TigerSwan to respond.
The responses from TotalEnergies, TotalEnergies EP Uganda, EACOP, Uganda National Oil Company, First Quantum Minerals, Korea Mine Rehabilitation and Mineral Resources Corporation (KOMIR), Dinant, Freeport McMoRan, PT Freeport Indonesia, Silvercorp Metals, Curimining, Dutch Development Bank (FMO) can be found here.
The other companies did not respond.
Explore the data and read the analysis on attacks against human rights defenders who raised concerns about business in 2025
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/briefings/hrds-2026
Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 
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