Human rights

Protection of and absolute respect for human rights are the fundamental principles underpinning Gazprom's stakeholder relationships.

The goals and obligations of the Company in this regard are enshrined in the Sustainable Development Policy of Gazprom Group.

The provisions establishing full respect for and compliance with human rights are also outlined in the following corporate documents of Gazprom:

• the Code of Corporate Ethics of Gazprom (PDF, 3.5 MB);

• the HR Management Policy of Gazprom, its subsidiaries and entities;
• the Comprehensive Program for Improvement of HR Management at Gazprom, its subsidiaries and entities;
• the General Collective Agreement of Gazprom and its subsidiaries;
• the Process Safety Management System Development Strategy of Gazprom for 2021–2030;
• the Occupational, Industrial, Fire and Road Safety Policy of Gazprom (PDF, 26.2 KB);
• the Environmental Policy of Gazprom (PDF, 30.2 KB);
• the Regional Policy Concept of Gazprom (PDF, 73.9 KB).

Gazprom Group's human rights goals

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Rights of employees to labor and education:

• supporting and advancing high-quality vocational education of employees;
• motivating each employee in a comprehensive manner to achieve the Gazprom Group's goals;
• providing employees with competitive salaries and benefits;
• protecting labor rights, including freedom of association and collective bargaining;
• guaranteeing equality of rights and protection from any and all forms of discrimination based on gender, nationality, age and other grounds;
• preventing the use of child and forced labor;
• creating and developing an unbiased and efficient framework to assess personal contribution of each employee of the Gazprom Group;
• ensuring that the professional expertise of employees meets the Gazprom Group's requirements.

Occupational health and safety rights of employees, partners and counterparties:

• creating a safe working environment and protecting the lives and health of the employees;
• ensuring reliable operation of hazardous production facilities;
• ensuring compliance with fire safety requirements at the Gazprom Group's facilities;
• reducing the rate of mortality due to occupational or other diseases;
• improving the efficiency of control over the compliance with occupational, industrial, fire and road safety requirements to reduce the number of workplace accidents (including those affecting stakeholders) and traffic incidents;
• arranging for medical infrastructure and the best possible insurance coverage to protect the health of the Gazprom Group's employees.

Rights of local communities and indigenous minorities in the Gazprom Group's areas of operations:

• supporting indigenous minorities in promoting their interests and rights to their traditional lifestyle (work and cultural activities), and preserving their original living environment.

Gazprom also places great emphasis on the protection of rights of indigenous minorities residing in the Company's regions of operations.

In addition, the Company creates special mechanisms (scholarships, access to corporate medical and transport infrastructure, employment at subsidiaries) to help the members of indigenous minorities and other groups of local population successfully implement their rights to education, health, decent work, and social development.

Life of indigenous minorities near Bovanenkovskoye field

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The Bovanenkovskoye field is located in the Yamal Peninsula. Out of about 17,000 people living in Yamal, over 10,000 persons are members of indigenous minorities of the North. Around 7,000 of these people are reindeer herders with a traditional nomadic lifestyle. The Yamal Peninsula is home to the world's largest population of domesticated reindeer: almost 300,000 animals. That is why it is important to preserve their grazing areas.

Due to the need to support the rights of the indigenous minorities of the North to their traditional lifestyle, as well as to prevent adverse impacts on their original habitat, Gazprom Dobycha Nadym systematically works to keep the entirety of Bovanenkovskoye suitable for grazing.

To that end, the following measures are taken:

• ban on the movement of vehicles in the tundra during the snowless period;
• ban on hunting and fishing;
• prevention of dumping of polluted and insufficiently treated sewage waters into surface water bodies (currently, there is no dumping of sewage into surface water bodies at the Bovanenkovskoye field, as sewage waters are injected into the formation);
• reduction in the share of waste sent for disposal and increase in the rate of waste management and recycling (including by contracting organizations) – currently, all drilling waste at the field is processed into construction materials;
• separate collection of production and consumption waste;
• timely restoration of depleted and reclaimed land plots to economic activity;
• facilitation of reindeer herd passages over the field's utility lines.

Within the framework of preserving the lifestyles of the indigenous minorities of the North and facilitating the free movement of reindeer across Bovanenkovskoye, a special commission was set up with representatives of Gazprom Dobycha Nadym, administration officials of Yar-Sale, and reindeer herders. As a result, 22 crossings were designed to allow animals and sledges to move freely across the field (via a sloping mound backfilled especially for them or due to elevated utility systems).

Reindeer herds migrate two times a year. Every migration usually involves about 100 people and more than 8,000 animals. Each year, the special commission checks if Bovanenkovskoye is ready for reindeer migration.

The organization of reindeer passages is a unique example of cooperation between a business enterprise and indigenous people of the tundra.