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Raising Global Standards of Transparency in the Extractives Sector
A guest blog by Eleni Chatzivgeri, Lynsie Chew, Louise Crawford, Martyn Gordon and Jim Haslam. The new mandatory rules for large and publicly listed extractive companies according to the EU Accounting Directive (transposed as UK SI 3209) represent a significant step forward in terms of mandatory transparency reporting for the extractives sector. Our report into […]
PWYP condemns the arrest of Ali Idrissa
Update 20/05/2017: Ali Idrissa was released on Saturday evening. Publish What You Pay (PWYP) condemns the arrest of Mr. Ali Idrissa, coordinator of PWYP Niger and of the Niamey-based civil society organisation Rotab. Mr. Idrissa was arrested at his home in Niamey by 10 Nigerien armed policemen at 5 pm today. The arrest follows a […]
Opening Australia’s extractive data for development
Tracking Australian mining, oil and gas companies around the world is challenging. Australia has one of the largest global footprints of extractives companies operating abroad. Research by Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Australia and ESG research house CAER in September 2016 found that the 22 Extractives Industries Companies on the ASX 200 had a presence […]
Equatorial Guinea: Free Human Rights Defenders
2 Prominent Activists Arbitrarily Detained (April 21, 2017) – Equatorial Guinean authorities should immediately release two men who head the country’s leading human rights organization, seven human rights and transparency organizations said today. The police detained Enrique Asumu and Alfredo Okenve, who head the Center for Development Studies and Initiatives (CEID), on April 17, 2017, […]
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) passes credibility test by placing accountability squarely at the heart of the initiative
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) welcomes the EITI Board’s decision this week in Bogota, Colombia, to confirm the implementation of its requirement on project-by-project reporting and its decision to suspend Azerbaijan for failing to demonstrate sufficient progress to protect civil society. With these two decisions, the EITI shows leadership on transparency and accountability in the […]
Azerbaijan’s reputation for transparency in the balance after crushing civil society
As Azerbaijan is scrambling for loans, international financial institutions are key to boosting energy sector accountability, experts say Zohrab Ismayil, an exiled Azeri human rights activist, doesn’t know what would happen to him if the government found out where he lives. So he conducts his work underground. And when he travels, he posts pictures on […]
Using UK company data as an accountability tool
After well over a decade-and-a-half of campaigning by the Publish What You Pay anti-corruption movement, oil, gas and mining companies are starting to report payments to governments under long-awaited mandatory disclosure rules. Although the voluntary Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has resulted in a growing body of available payment data since 2003, company disclosures on […]
Investigate Malawi’s Oil Contracts
President should not approve addendum to 30-year agreements Lilongwe, 27 February 2017 – On 12 May 2014, eight days before the elections, the Minister of Mining signed production sharing agreements for three of Malawi’s petroleum blocks. If oil exploration is successful, the agreements could be in place for thirty years covering exploration, extraction, and closure. […]
Third report on the monitoring of public investments in the health sector in Congo-Brazzaville
Third report on the monitoring of public investments in the health sector (year 2015): Only 27% of payments reached their planned destination Pointe Noire, February 14th 2017 – Publish What You Pay-Congo (PWYP Congo) has published its third report on the implementation of planned public investments in the health budget for the year 2015. The […]
Sapin II: a very opaque transparency bill in France
Data-driven stories outlined how the reporting voted in Parliament could have allowed companies such as Total to hide a large part of their activities Public reporting requirements in France and the opportunity for a stronger transparency bill Between 2012 and 2014, France was considered a champion of corporate transparency by its European peers. In 2013, […]
US Congress votes down anti-corruption rule
This week, United States legislators chose to relinquish their country’s leadership role in the global oil, gas and mining transparency movement by undoing a landmark anti-corruption rule. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed a motion to roll back the bi-partisan Cardin-Lugar provision, also known as Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act Section […]
People’s Mining Indaba to examine Africa Mining Vision
Press Release by the Economic Justice Network, member of PWYP South Africa Cape Town, February 2017: Over 400 activists who are members of civil society, faith-based organisations, mining-affected and impacted community members, academics and other stakeholders seeking justice in mining and the extractives industry will gather at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in Cape […]