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Rio fights Bougainville case in US

Rio Tinto is fighting to have a long-running human rights lawsuit against it thrown out of a United States court because the alleged breaches occurred in Papua New Guinea.

Rio Tinto is fighting to have a long-running human rights lawsuit against it thrown out of a United States court because the alleged breaches occurred in Papua New Guinea.

The London-based mining giant faces a class action in the US over the alleged “slave-like" treatment of native workers on the island of Bougainville in PNG, where it once operated one of the world’s largest copper and goldmines.

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