Igbayiloye, Oluwatosin Busayo2025-05-072025-05-072023The Journal of International and Comparative Law1119-9261https://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/16162Mining is intrinsically associated with serious environmental and social consequences. Mining businesses, on the other hand, can offset these negative effects by effective corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts that promote sustainable practices, engage with local communities, improve worker safety, and support local economies. A robust CSR strategy not only help mining businesses develop positive connections with local stakeholders, but it also contributes to their long-term viability and reputation. By incorporating CSR into their operations, mining firms may strike a balance between economic success and the well-being of the communities and ecosystems they impact, ensuring that mining benefits society and the environment. CSR provides a framework within which mining companies can incorporate human rights principles and sustainable practices into their operations. Mining businesses that implement CSR integrate their business plans with the concepts of sustainability, ensuring that they contribute positively to society and the environment while remaining profitable. This article by adopting doctrinal analysis examines CSR as an approach to curb the adverse impacts of mining operations. It discusses the correlation between CSR, sustainability and human rights and indicated that CSR is a strategy to incorporate principles of human rights and the concept of sustainability in mining activities. The article recommends that CSR programs should priortise principles of human rights and sustainability, minimise negative effects and maximise benefits to the environment and local communities and ensure that activities are carried out in an ethical, responsible, and sustainable manner.enMiningCSRSustainable developmentenvironmenthuman rightsArticle