Allegations jumped from 51 in 2021 to 148 over a five-year period, found a new Business & Human Rights Resource Centre report, with nickel-rich Indonesia topping the list, largely for harms involving local communities, serious risks to workers and water pollution.
Nearly 75 per cent of migrants in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, reported being negatively affected by rising temperatures, while 100 per cent reported being affected by extreme weather events.
Indonesian lawmakers have called for a government fact-finding investigation into alleged human rights abuses linked to a long-running land conflict between the Dayak Kualan Indigenous community and timber company PT Mayawana Persada.