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Protecting civil society space is key to stopping human rights abuses
New UN Human Rights Council resolution protecting civil society organisations is a step forward.
Mining ban in Indonesia can restore millions of hectares of protected and conserved forest land
An immediate prohibition will positively impact Indonesia’s mining sector governance Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia is calling for a mining moratorium, meaning a temporary ban on activity, to immediately regulate the problematic mining situation permits on conservation and protected forest land. The permit moratorium based on experience in the Indonesian province of Aceh since […]
Malawi’s Mining Fiscal Regime – have we been consulted?
On Friday 27 May 2016, Hon. Goodall E. Gondwe, Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, announced in his budget statement that Malawi’s “out of tune” mining fiscal regime, as he described it, will be updated. The Minister explained: I shall be presenting to this House, Mr. Speaker, Sir, a bill that aims at providing […]
Taking the environment into account
Today is World Environment Day, a day observed every year on June 5 to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet. There is an increasing demand for more information on the environmental impacts linked to extractive activities in order to assess their real costs, inform the debate and […]
Azerbaijan: Civic space in focus as country is listed as ‘inactive’ by OGP
Publish What You Pay (PWYP), ARTICLE 19 and CIVICUS welcome yesterday’s unprecedented decision by the Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) to list Azerbaijan as ‘inactive’. Through this decision, the OGP – a voluntary initiative promoting government transparency and accountability – reaffirms how vital civil society is for an open government and the […]
Press freedom violations threaten transparency in extractive sector
Today, 3 May, is World Press Freedom Day, a day set by the United Nations to highlight the important role of the press and journalists worldwide. “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through […]
Extractivism in Latin America: the violations of rights
Latin America is at a crossroads. Either measures are put in to transition from the extractive model on which the region has become increasingly dependent in recent decades, or the situation in the region will become completely unsustainable in social, environmental and climatic terms, and even in fiscal and economic terms. The high prices of […]
Extractive industries in a resource and climate constrained world
Two weeks ago, a prominent international initiative on transparency in the extractive sector gathered in Lima, Peru. This was the first time that the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has met in Latin America for its global conference since the initiative was founded in 2003. Last week, a high profile environmental and indigenous rights activist, […]
Towards social-environmental transparency
The demand for socio-environmental information regarding extractive activities, in order to assess their real costs, inform the debate and strengthen public participation in decision-making on policies and mining, oil and gas projects is felt increasingly strong in Latin America. At the same time, several countries in the region are involved, in different stages and with […]
What I extracted from the PWYP data extraction workshop
In my quest to play a role in improved mineral revenue transparency in Zimbabwe, I applied to become a PWYP Data Extractor, a new project by Publish What You Pay’s (PWYP) International. To kick the programme off, I joined the first data extraction workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia in November 2015. It gave me an in-depth […]
An Open Letter from Bantay Kita to Platts on Semirara Mining’s CSR Nomination
Bantay Kita – Publish What You Pay Philippines have issued an open letter to Platts stating that Semirara Mining doesn’t deserve CSR nomination. Semirara Mining and Power Corporation’s (SMPC) CSR project in Semirara Island has been nominated in a global award-giving body known as the energy sector’s Oscars. Bantay Kita – Publish What You Pay […]
Reclaiming what’s theirs – informed consent and CSO participation in Uganda
In October over 60 families from Buseruka, a community displaced by oil extraction in West Uganda, walked 50 km to Hoima town to ask the government to give them what they had been promised since extraction began in their backyard. With them, they had a petition, signed by over 80 people, which included a number […]