Saudi Arabia: NEOM businesses should beware land & migrant workers' rights violations, greenwashing & environmental degradation, says NGO; cos. did not respond - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
NEOM’s massive development involves serious human rights abuses and environmental exploitation. The project relies on forced evictions and suppresses dissent, while migrant workers face severe safety risks and lack legal protection or adequate investigation following workplace deaths. Furthermore, the initiative endangers local biodiversity and generates an enormous carbon footprint. Crucially, the state engages in greenwashing, using environmental rhetoric to mask the project’s true ecological damage and authoritarian practices. This is highly relevant to greenwashing as it exposes how megaprojects can mask harmful realities with sustainability claims. International investors are urged to scrutinize evidence of these abuses and stop enabling deceptive environmental branding that harms both people and the planet.
Source: business-humanrights.orgPublished on 2024-12-12