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GRI 411: Rights of Indigenous Peoples·Disclosure GRI 411-1

Incidents of violations involving rights of Indigenous Peoples

Practical guidance for preparing this disclosure. Use this card to identify the information to prepare, verify claims and organise supporting evidence. For exact requirements, always refer to the official Global Reporting Initiative source.

Legal status

GRI 411: Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2016 remains the applicable published GRI Topic Standard and is effective for reports or other materials published on or after 1 July 2018.

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GRI 411: Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Disclosure GRI 411-1 · 2016

Effective

2018-07-01

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Last reviewed

2026-08-03

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To prepare this disclosure
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Disclosure focus

This disclosure requires the organization to report the total number of identified incidents involving violations of the rights of indigenous peoples during the reporting period.

It also requires the status of the incidents and actions taken, with reference to:

incidents reviewed by the organization;

remediation plans being implemented;

remediation plans implemented, with results reviewed through routine internal management review processes; and

incidents no longer subject to action.

An incident can be a formal legal action or complaint or an instance of non-compliance identified through an established organizational procedure. The disclosure is therefore not limited to substantiated or finally determined violations.

When compiling the information, the organization should include incidents involving workers performing its activities and communities likely to be affected by existing or planned activities.

The information can be presented in aggregate. Confidential case-level details do not need to be disclosed publicly.

Policies, due diligence, consultation and FPIC processes belong primarily under Disclosure 3-3 and do not replace the quantitative and status information required by GRI 411-1.

This LRA educational guidance supports disclosure preparation. For the exact requirements, always refer to the official Global Reporting Initiative source.

Before you start

Before you start

A quick mental checklist before you prepare this disclosure — tick each as you settle it.

Preparation

Key information to prepare

Preparation field What to capture Evidence hint Owner
Incident sources and population Formal complaints, legal actions and identified non-compliance involving workers or affected communities. Grievance registers, legal matters, project records, audits and monitoring systems. Indigenous Relations / Community Relations / Legal
Total identified incidents Total incidents identified during the reporting period. Consolidated and de-duplicated incident register. Sustainability Reporting / Human Rights
Incidents reviewed Incidents reviewed through the organization’s formal process. Investigation and review records. Case owner / Legal
Remediation being implemented Incidents with remediation plans in progress. Remediation plans, owners and progress records. Project / Community Relations
Remediation implemented and reviewed Incidents with completed remediation whose results were reviewed through routine management processes. Completion evidence and management-review records. Management / Human Rights
No longer subject to action Incidents requiring no further organizational action. Closure records and closure rationale. Case owner
Prior-period remediation Older incidents still under action, reported separately from the current-period total where useful. Prior-period register and remediation tracker. Human Rights / Legal
Methodology and privacy Incident definition, period rule, duplicate treatment, aggregation and reasons for omission. Methodology note and legal or privacy review. Sustainability Reporting / Legal
＋ Show GRI 411-1 sub-elements (LRA working checklist)

How to prepare it

Identify the formal systems and established procedures that can register or identify incidents.
Include relevant worker, community, project, grievance, legal, security, land, cultural-heritage, audit and monitoring records.
Map local terminology to the GRI incident definition.
Establish the reporting-period counting rule.
Consolidate the records into one incident-level register.
Remove duplicate records concerning the same underlying incident.
Include formal complaints even where the allegation was later not substantiated.
Include applicable non-compliance identified through audits or monitoring.
Calculate the total number of incidents identified during the reporting period.
Map the incidents to the four required status and action references.
Separate current-period incidents from prior-period incidents with ongoing remediation.
Reconcile the total and status information to source systems.
Aggregate or anonymize information where necessary to protect affected peoples and individuals.
Apply an applicable reason for omission where required information cannot be reported.
Verify the disclosure against GRI 411-1 and Recommendation 2.1.

Request the data

Request the disclosure evidence

Translate the disclosure into an internal business question — then adapt it to your organisation's own language.

Please provide the incident records for [reporting period] relating to possible or identified violations of the rights of indigenous peoples. Include records from: community and worker grievance mechanisms; legal and regulatory matters; land-access, resettlement and cultural-heritage registers; project consultation and stakeholder-engagement systems; security incidents; audits and formal monitoring programmes; and other applicable formal procedures. For each anonymized incident, provide: incident ID; date registered or identified; source system; affected worker or community population; internal classification; right or issue involved; review status; remediation status; whether implemented remediation has been reviewed; whether the incident is no longer subject to action; and any linked duplicate record. Please also provide the reconciled current-period total.

Use the organisation's own role and document names, but preserve the defined GRI terms and the scope described above.

Better request

Please provide the incident records for [reporting period] relating to possible or identified violations of the rights of indigenous peoples. Include records from: community and worker grievance mechanisms; legal and regulatory matters; land-access, resettlement and cultural-heritage registers; project consultation and stakeholder-engagement systems; security incidents; audits and formal monitoring programmes; and other applicable formal procedures. For each anonymized incident, provide: incident ID; date registered or identified; source system; affected worker or community population; internal classification; right or issue involved; review status; remediation status; whether implemented remediation has been reviewed; whether the incident is no longer subject to action; and any linked duplicate record. Please also provide the reconciled current-period total.

Draft your disclosure

Notes that turn data into a disclosure

LRA training templates — adapt them to your organisation, and check the official source before sign-off.

Method note

Incidents include formal legal actions, registered complaints and instances of non-compliance identified through established procedures. The compilation includes incidents involving workers performing the organization’s activities and communities likely to be affected by existing or planned activities.

Context note

Keep mandatory GRI Requirements, GRI recommendations and additional LRA preparation controls clearly distinguished. Apply a GRI 1 reason for omission where required information cannot be reported.

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Assurance readiness

For each claim, check the evidence

Claim Risk Evidence to check
We applied the GRI definition of an incident.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
The incident population includes applicable formal complaints, legal actions and identified instances of non-compliance.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
We did not limit the total to substantiated or finally confirmed violations.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
We considered incidents involving workers performing the organization’s activities.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
We considered incidents involving communities likely to be affected by existing or planned activities.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Relevant community, project, grievance, legal, security, audit and monitoring systems were reconciled.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Duplicate records concerning the same incident were removed.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
The current-period total is separated from prior-period incidents with ongoing remediation.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
The published incident total reconciles to the consolidated register.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
The status and actions taken are mapped to the four references specified by GRI 411-1.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
We identified incidents reviewed by the organization.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
We identified remediation plans being implemented.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
We identified implemented remediation whose results were reviewed through routine management processes.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
We identified incidents no longer subject to action.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Internal labels such as open, closed, negotiated and escalated were not used as substitutes without mapping.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Zero incidents are reported explicitly where applicable.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
The incident count is presented as an exact whole number rather than an estimate or rounded figure.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
The disclosure does not reveal information that could create privacy, safety or cultural risks for affected peoples.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
Any unavailable required information is addressed through the applicable GRI reason-for-omission requirements.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.
The reporting-period and status cut-off rules are documented and consistently applied.The published response does not support this human-reviewed assurance check.Trace the statement to current approved records and the official IFRS source.

Evidence pack to prepare

Common reporting gaps

The organization describes its Indigenous Peoples policy but provides no incident total.
The report states that incidents occurred but does not provide a number.
Only substantiated or confirmed violations are counted.
Formal complaints are omitted because the investigation did not uphold them.
Complaints registered with competent authorities are omitted.
Incidents identified through audits or monitoring are omitted.
Only community incidents are considered and worker incidents are omitted.
Only existing operations are considered and communities affected by planned activities are omitted.
The same incident is counted in several systems.
Complainants, meetings or remediation actions are counted instead of incidents.
Current-period incidents are combined with prior-period cases still under remediation.
The report presents only open and closed cases.
The four required status and action references are not addressed.
Implemented remediation is disclosed without indicating whether its results were reviewed.
The report requires every case to be described publicly, creating confidentiality or safety risks.
The organization reports no legal cases but does not consider grievance or monitoring records.
The incident total is estimated or rounded.
A zero result is not stated explicitly.
Policies, consultation programmes or FPIC commitments are presented as substitutes for the incident disclosure.
The disclosed total cannot be reconciled to formal records.

Examples

Illustrative examples

Synthetic, written by LRA — not from a company report, not text from any standard.

Illustrative example 1

Illustrative synthetic example — Mining
During 2025, the organization identified three incidents involving the rights of indigenous peoples through its formal grievance and monitoring systems.
All three incidents were reviewed.
Remediation was being implemented for one incident.
Remediation had been implemented and its results reviewed for one incident.
One incident was no longer subject to action.
The information is reported in aggregate to protect the affected communities.

Synthetic LRA illustration. Replace every figure and fact with the reporting organisation's evidence.

Illustrative example 2

Illustrative synthetic example — Utilities
Two formal incidents involving the rights of indigenous peoples were identified during the reporting period.
Both incidents were reviewed. A remediation plan was being implemented for one. Remediation for the other had been implemented and its results reviewed through the project’s routine management-review process.

Synthetic LRA illustration. Replace every figure and fact with the reporting organisation's evidence.

Illustrative example 3

Illustrative synthetic example — Zero incidents
No incidents involving violations of the rights of indigenous peoples were identified during 2025. The four status and remediation references were therefore not applicable.

Synthetic LRA illustration. Replace every figure and fact with the reporting organisation's evidence.

Illustrative example 4

Illustrative treatment — complaint not substantiated
A formally registered community complaint was included in the incident total even though the review did not substantiate the allegation. The incident was reported as reviewed and no longer subject to action.

Synthetic LRA illustration. Replace every figure and fact with the reporting organisation's evidence.

Company reports

How companies report GRI 411-1 in practice

Examples of full and partial reporting practice. These are evidence-led reviews, not exact disclosure templates to copy.

Real published reports
Chailease Holding Company Limited
Banks / Diverse Financials / Insurance · Taiwan · 2024
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Chailease Holding Company Limited’s 2024 Sustainability Report is described on the current page as reporting no violations involving the rights of indigenous peoples.

A direct zero-incidents response addresses the quantitative requirement in GRI 411-1(a). Where no incidents exist, the four status and remediation references in GRI 411-1(b) are not applicable.

The card should therefore:

retain the zero-incidents result;

identify the exact page containing the direct answer;

remove the statement that outcomes or corrective measures are insufficient;

remove discrimination, forced-labor and general employee-incident information;

remove supplier social-assessment information; and

classify the disclosure as an adequate zero-incidents response, subject to confirming the cited page in the report.

A report with zero incidents is not required to invent corrective actions or remediation outcomes.

The current card itself states that the report records no violations but then incorrectly treats missing corrective-action detail and supplier assessment as gaps.

SQM / Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile
Mining — Rare Minerals / Precious Metals / Gems · Chile · 2024
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SQM’s 2024 Sustainability Report is described on the current page as stating that there were no violations involving the rights of indigenous peoples during the reporting period.

The card should:

retain the direct zero-incidents answer on page 362;

state that the four incident-status and remediation references are not applicable because the total is zero;

remove corruption and legal-action information from page 364;

remove child-labor and health-and-safety information;

remove the claim that those unrelated topics are insufficiently quantified; and

classify the report as an adequate zero-incidents disclosure for GRI 411-1.

Other human-rights or community-management disclosures can provide context but are not needed to complete a zero-incidents response under this disclosure.

The current card confirms the zero result but assesses unrelated disclosures as though they were part of GRI 411-1.

Zydus Wellness Limited
Food Production — Agricultural · India · 2025
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Zydus Wellness Limited’s Integrated Annual Report 2024–25 reports zero incidents involving the rights of indigenous peoples on report page 86.

The GRI content index on report page 99 directs users to page 86.

The card should:

correct the substantive page reference from page 52 to page 86;

state explicitly that the reported value is zero;

recognize that status and remediation information is not applicable where no incidents exist;

remove manufactured-capital and customer-health-and-safety information;

remove the absence of case outcomes or mitigation measures as a gap; and

classify the disclosure as an adequate zero-incidents response.

The surrounding Human Rights section provides policy and grievance-mechanism context, but this context is not a substitute for—and is not needed to supplement—the direct zero result.

Zydus reports: zero incident of violations involving rights of indigenous people on report page 86, while its GRI index maps 411-1 to that page.

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