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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 […]
Towards a transparent and accountable mineral resources governance framework
PWYP Zimbabwe have published a compendium of research papers on key mining related matters in Zimbabwe. Rampant corruption in the mineral sector threatens to erode the potential the sector has been contributing to economic recovery and drive socio-economic development in Zimbabwe. This compendium presents abridged versions of research papers from Publish What You Pay Zimbabwe […]
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
Between 2012 and 2014, France was considered a champion of corporate transparency by its European peers. In 2013, the French Parliament passed a law setting a public country-by-country reporting (CBCR) for banks which likely influenced the vote for the EU Capital Requirements Directives (CRD) a few months later. Public CBCR is widely seen as an […]
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 […]
Open Message from PWYP Global Coalition to US-listed EITI Companies
Download the full statement here. Open message from Publish What You global coalition To US-listed EITI-supporting companies: Anglo American, AngloGold Ashanti, ArcelorMittal, Barrick Gold, BHP Billiton, BP, Chevron, Conoco Philips, Eni, Exxon Mobil, Freeport-McMoran, Glencore, Goldcorp, Gold Fields, Hess Corporation, Hudbay, Iamgold, Kinross, Kosmos Energy, Marathon Oil, Newmont Mining, Noble Energy, PEMEX, Petrobras, Rio Tinto, […]
This move by the US Congress is good for Exxon, bad for everyone
One of President Trump’s best tools to “drain the swamp” is under threat from his own side. A mere four days after he took office, Republican Congress members began attacking a key piece of anti-corruption legislation. This rule, the Cardin-Lugar provision (also known as Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act), was a bipartisan effort to […]