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Serving our communities

Our objective

Community relations are about working closely with people neighbouring our operations to arrive at an understanding of what we can do for mutual benefit and then to secure implementation of agreed objectives. Through continuing participation in forums with non government organisations and partnership programmes, Rio Tinto endeavours to contribute to emerging debates, to gain information and, ultimately, to improve performance.

We set out to understand public issues through membership of international bodies, by undertaking opinion surveys to determine what is important to business, government, education, environment and community leaders, and by conducting non government organisation forums to allow us to consider a range of views about the Group's progress and direction.

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Our contributions to communities

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