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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 […]
Taking away the tax effect of tax havens
Cross border taxation methods and reverse tax credit This report introduces the reader to a much-neglected area of international taxation, tax credits, and shows how a more active utilization of tax credits and one of its accompanying features, withholding tax, can fix some of the issues we have with multinational companies not paying taxes. In […]
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, […]
Developing a handbook for using project-level data
Laws compelling extractive companies to report their payments to governments at the project level have been adopted in the EU, the US, Canada and Norway. The EITI has agreed to roll out project-level reporting across all 51 of its implementing countries. Early adoption of the regulations in the UK, France and Norway resulted in dozens […]
Why mandatory disclosures matter for Indonesia
The global transparency wave has reached Indonesia. Initiatives such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) are bringing more transparency to Indonesia and the mandatory disclosures laws of the EU have led to more data on extractive activities in Indonesia becoming available. But the oil, mining and gas industries are still among the most corrupt […]
Is the United States getting a good deal on its natural resources? A taxing question
This case study began with a not-so-simple question: Is the United States getting a good deal for the depletion of its natural resources? Publish What You Pay – United States (PWYP-US) has worked for 13 years to open the books of oil, gas and mining companies to create a more open and accountable extractives sector. […]
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 […]