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Tribute to Tiergou Pierre Dabiré
It is with deep regret and sadness that we, the International Secretariat of Publish What You Pay (PWYP), announce the passing of Pierre Tiergou Dabiré, which happened on 13 October 2015 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Dabiré was the President of the African Network of Journalists for Integrity and Transparency (Rajit), Coordinator of PWYP’s Coalition in […]
Niger: if Areva doesn’t pay the right taxes, why should citizens?
ROTAB – Publish What You Pay Niger got its hands on a convention regarding the contracts Areva – Niger and it is not all rosy. Once again, despite a strong Mining Code 2006, the Nigerien government chose to circumvent its law and regulations to please Areva. Following lengthy opaque negotiations, a convention on Areva’s exploitation […]
Suspicions of corruption in Kinross-Tasiast, Mauritania: what are our leaders waiting for?
During the month of July, Kinross Mining Company was ordered by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to explain allegations it had received undue payments made to government officials and some internal control deficiencies in their operations in Mauritania and Ghana. This follows two earlier requests by both the SEC and the Justice Department […]
United States Applauds Securities and Exchange Commission’s Commitment to Swiftly Release Oil Transparency Rule
SEC Will Meet to Implement Landmark Oil, Gas, and Mining Transparency Law by June 2016 Publish What You Pay – United States (PWYP-US) welcomes today’s commitment by the Securities and Exchange Commission to quickly finalize a rule for Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act, a groundbreaking oil, gas and mining transparency law. The SEC’s announcement […]
Ibrahima Sorry Diallo
During my youth, I got engaged in citizen movements, I learned to contribute to the development of my country and I have informed myself about associative life. I was able to understand the issues and problems that my country faced in its development. I decided to put the experience in youth movements for to work […]
Strengthening country-by-country reporting regulations in Norway. What next?
Just before the summer recess started in Norway, the Norwegian Parliament, the Storting, agreed to strengthen country-by-country reporting regulations. To find out how the Norwegian Government plans on following up on this new regulation, Truls Wickholm, Member of Parliament for the Norwegian Labour Party, has sent a written question to Siv Jensen, Norway’s Finance Minister. […]
Legislate, don’t negotiate – Mineral resources: Zambia’s capital wealth?
As in many other countries, taxes represent Zambia’s largest source of domestic revenue, making taxation issues vital for our country’s governance and development. The importance of taxation cannot be over-emphasized as governments are ushered into office based on their promises to revise tax regimes for the greater benefit of its citizens, only to lose power […]
Improving governance of land and forest based extractive sector in Indonesia
“Capable stakeholders, community monitoring, revenue stream and budget analysis, multi-stakeholder dialogues, and open data can pave the way for improvement in the governance of land and forest, especially those used by the extractive sector.” – Agung Budiono, Program Manager of Setapak-PWYP Indonesia. Lack of governance in the extractives relating to forest and land management has […]
Akmal Rustamovich
“I am a patriot” says Akmal Rustamovich, a 25 year old international relations student, whose organisation GIV-Accent joined the PWYP-Tajikistan coalition in 2013. Proud of his country where 60% of the population is aged under 30, Akmal is part of a small team that runs GIV-Accent. Based in Khujand city, in the Northern part of […]
Rano Jumaeva
Our main target is to work with youth, especially with girls from remote areas and villages. We promote education among young girls. We also work with their parents to explain how important it is for women to be educated. We faced different challenges but never gave up. It is hard to locomote between the regions […]
About time! SEC to speed up draft rule for Dodd-Frank 1504
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) told to speed up draft rule for landmark 2010 US transparency law for oil, gas and minerals In June 2010, President Obama signed into law Dodd-Frank 1504, which obliges all US-listed extractive companies to publish their payments to the governments where they operate. Section 1504, if properly implemented, will […]
The foundation is shaking beneath Big Oil’s House of Cards
No competitive disadvantage from payment disclosure, says leading natural resource economist Transparency advocates are fighting to prevent Big Oil from weakening Section 1504 of Dodd-Frank, the landmark oil, gas, and mining payment transparency provision. Section 1504, if properly implemented, will enable citizens to monitor the revenue their governments receive from extractives companies, and help citizens […]