Organization: Alliance One International Inc.

Year: 2017

Resolved: Resolved: shareholders of Alliance One International, Inc. (the 'Company') hereby request that the Board of Directors prepare a report on the benefits and drawbacks of the Company's participation in mediation of specific instances of alleged human rights violations involving the Company's operations if mediation is offered by a governmental National Contact Point for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (the 'OECD') Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. The report shall be compiled at reasonable expense, omit proprietary information, and be publicly available by the 2018 annual meeting of stockholders.

Supporting Statement:Supporting Statement The United Nation's Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights call on business enterprises to have in place the following policies and processes: a. A policy commitment to meet their responsibility to respect human rights; b. A human rights due diligence process to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address their impacts on human rights; c. Processes to enable the remediation of any adverse human rights impacts they cause or to which they contribute. (Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, United Nations, 2011, available at http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/GuidingPrinciplesBusinessHR_EN.pdf). While our Company has taken steps to commit to respect human rights and to conduct due diligence, we believe the Company needs to provide adequate remedies for human rights violations involving the Company's operations including its tobacco supply chain. Non-judicial grievance mechanisms to remedy human rights violations are needed the most when formal legal mechanisms are inadequate. For example, in the United States, agricultural workers are excluded from the National Labor Relations Act that protects the rights of workers to organize and collectively bargain. Agricultural child labor is also permitted in the United States under the Fair Labor Standards Act. (Teens of the Tobacco Fields: Child Labor in United States Tobacco Farming, Human Rights Watch, December 9, 2015, available at https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/12/09/teens-tobacco-fields/child-labor-united-states-tobaccofarming). This proposal urges our Company to report on the benefits and drawbacks of participation in mediation of alleged human rights violations if mediation is offered by a governmental National Contact Point pursuant to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. (OECD, 2011, available at http://www.oecd.org/daf/inv/mne/48004323.pdf). In the United States, the State Department's Office of the U.S. National Contact Point provides mediation of specific instances of human rights violations through the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. ('Specific Instance Process,' Office of the U.S. National Contact Point, U.S. Department of State, available at http://www.state.gov/e/eb/oecd/usncp/specificinstance/index.htm). Issuance of a report on the OECD mediation process does not mean that the Company will be required to participate in OECD mediation. Rather, preparation of the requested report will help inform the Board of Directors and shareholders of the benefits and drawbacks of entering into OECD mediation in the event that OECD mediation is offered to the Company at some future date.