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Niger – PWYP’s Africa Steering Committee strongly condemns the arrest and charges brought against Ali Idrissa amid unrelenting crackdown on civil society
The Africa Steering Committee of Publish What You Pay strongly condemns the arrest and charges brought up against Ali Idrissa* on 14 April as well as the continued detention of six activists arrested a month ago in connection with a corruption scandal involving high-level public officials at Niger’s Ministry of Defense. A recent audit relating to […]
Bringing Beneficial Owners out of Hiding
PWYP Zimbabwe is pressing for the country’s new register of beneficial ownership to be publicly accessible, so people can use it to fight corruption There was joy in Zimbabwe in early 2020 when we followed many other countries worldwide in establishing our first beneficial ownership register. These registers enable people to see who really owns […]
Niger – Civil society organisations call on authorities to end harassment of human rights defenders
Several civil society organisations* have expressed concern over the arrest of at least 15 Nigerien civil society members, and the detention and prosecution of seven of them. These events are taking place in the context of an increasingly deteriorating climate for civil society in Niger where several serious violations of fundamental freedoms have been recorded […]
International Women’s Day 2020 – The inspiring women in our global movement
There is overwhelming evidence that socially, environmentally and economically, women are disproportionately affected by mining, gas and oil projects. And while men reap more of the benefits from them, women endure more of their negative impacts. To mark International Women’s Day, eight inspirational women from our global movement share insights about their lives on the […]
Making extractive sector governance work for development
PWYP has launched a three-year project to strengthen oversight of the extractive sector by civil society and communities in Iraq, Kenya and Lebanon In resource-rich countries, extractive sector revenues can change people’s lives. Spent well, they can fund huge improvements to infrastructure and services such as health care and education. But unless they are carefully […]
Tax and Transparency – How the Global Reporting Initiative Tax Disclosure Standard compares with global extractives transparency standards
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) develops and supports implementation of global best practice through voluntary reporting by businesses and other organisations on their economic, environmental and social impacts though its Sustainability Reporting Standards. By doing this, it helps companies and others better assess, and address, their socio-environmental impact and promotes sustainable business practices. In December […]
EITI necessary for transparency and accountability reforms in Zimbabwe mineral resource governance
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Zimbabwe has noted with regret that the government of Zimbabwe is not keen to join the Extractive Transparency Industries Initiative (EITI). This is based on the newspaper article that was published in the Independent on the 31st of January 2020. The Minister of Finance in the 2019 Budget Statement mentioned […]
PWYP Secretariat Operational Plan 2020-2022
This Operational Plan lays out what the PWYP Secretariat is planning to prioritise in the period 2020 to 2022 to implement PWYP’s ambitious global strategy, Vision 2025: A People-centred Agenda for the Extractive Sector. The Plan also identifies what PWYP members and partners can expect of the Secretariat over that period. PWYP is in a […]
Transparency and the challenging path to accountability, lessons from Gwanda mining community
This is an extract from a blog, cross-posted from Mukasiri Sibanda’s website, which showcase the collaborative work of two PWYP coalitions – PWYP Zimbabwe and PWYP Canada. Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA), Gwanda Residents Association (GRA) and Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Canada are currently working on a joint study, assessing the impact of Caledonia’s […]
Transparency dosage critical to help the fight against violence in artisanal and small-scale mining
As the government of Zimbabwe takes action to contain machete gangs who have wreaked havoc in almost every key gold producing areas in Zimbabwe, mining sector transparency reforms must not go under the policy radar. To a large extent, Publish What You Pay-Zimbabwe believes that opacity, the secretive way in which the mining sector operates […]
Resource Guide: 2020 SEC Rulemaking for Section 1504, U.S. Oil and Mining Anti-Corruption Rule
On December 18, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a draft implementing rule for Section 1504, a key oil and mining anti-corruption law in the United States enacted with bipartisan support in 2010. The provision mandates regulations requiring all oil, gas, and mining companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to disclose the […]
PWYP UK welcomes fifth UK EITI report, but has the UK fiscal regime been too generous to industry?
In December 2019, the United Kingdom’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) oversaw publication of the UK’s Kingdom’s fifth EITI report, covering calendar year 2018. Former Prime Minister Theresa May had written in 2018 in her foreword to the UK Government’s A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment (pages […]