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Publish What You Pay Africa Steering Committee is concerned by the continued violation of human rights in Niger
The Republic of Niger has recently left the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in response to the suspension imposed to the country by the EITI Board. In the Nigerien authorities’ view, the EITI Board had interfered with Niger’s domestic policy regarding judicial matters involving civil society members. We, the Africa Steering Committee of Publish What […]
Minerals as a Shared Inheritance: rethinking the resource curse
Does the way that we think of natural resources encourage mismanagement and even corruption? Publish What You Pay’s (PWYP) newest member in India, the Goa Foundation, puts forward the idea that a significant step can be taken towards addressing the resource curse by seeing mineral wealth as a shared inheritance, to be held in trust […]
Identifying loopholes and implementation issues in a recent law for the development of mining-affected areas
In mineral-rich areas across India, and around the world, mining often fails to benefit local residents, degrades lands and rivers and destroys traditional livelihoods. In 2015, a new Indian programme, the Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY), which means the Prime Minister’s Development Programme for Mining-Affected Regions, was established to remedy this anomaly by […]
Transparency champions and PWYP call on UK to maintain oil and mining disclosure momentum
Leading advocates of country-by-country payments to governments reporting by oil, gas and mining companies have joined Publish What You Pay (PWYP) UK in calling on the United Kingdom government to continue to lead the global push for greater transparency in the extractive industries as part of the fight against corruption and for citizen empowerment in […]
A transparent mining and oil industry is one step closer: Publish What You Pay Australia welcomes ALP commitment on mandatory disclosure
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Australia, a coalition of Australian civil society organisations campaigning for greater transparency in the mining, oil, and gas sectors, welcomes the Australian Labor Party commitment, announced today, to introduce a mandatory reporting regime for the extractives sector. Australia enjoys a strong and positive international reputation for mining expertise. However, our […]
Time to stamp out corruption in commodity trading
This post was originally posted in the Huffington Post Contributors section here. An explosive investigation by Swiss NGO Public Eye has revealed the complex tangle by which employees of Gunvor, one of the world’s biggest oil traders, offered secret payments to officials in the Republic of Congo for access to the country’s assets. The case […]
Rural women lead the defence of communal lands in Latin America
Despite gender discrimination in their own communities, women in Latin America are risking their lives to defend their lands. Beatriz Olivera researches the effects of the extractives and energy industries in Latin America for the Mexican organisation Fundar, a member of RLIE and Publish What You Pay. In her work, she sees again and again […]
Civil Society Organisations withdraw from UK EITI
Several years of positive progress by a UK Government anti-corruption initiative, the UK Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), are at risk
Civil Society Network withdraws from UK Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
The UK EITI Civil Society Network (CSN) regretfully announces its withdrawal from engagement with the UK EITI.
Policy brief on Double Taxation Agreements: the case of Zimbabwe
Double taxation arises when two or more tax jurisdictions overlap, such that the same item of income or profit is subject to tax in each. Double Taxation Agreements were therefore instituted as an international tax instrument for avoiding double taxation of the same income or capital to the same taxpayer in the same period in […]
Joint statement from Environmental rights defenders workshop
In response to the rise in the attacks, harassment and killings of human rights defenders and activists defending land, environmental and indigenous rights, CIVICUS and Publish What you Pay released a report on the different restrictions and attacks faced by activists. Based on the findings of the report a workshop was organised in Johannesburg on […]
Why Azerbaijan must implement the OGP recommendations
In 2014, the government of Azerbaijan introduced new legislation which has since made it impossible for many civil society organisations to do our job of representing the interests of our fellow citizens. For the past two and half years, myself, my colleagues at the Public Association for Assistance to Free Economy and countless other NGOs […]