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Urgent statement on civic space in Iraq, Kazakhstan, Honduras and other countries
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) believes that civic participation and unrestricted civil society are a prerequisite for a world where the extractive industries benefit, and do not harm, people. As we enter a new year of continuing health, economic and climate crises, a strong civil society remains a bedrock of recovering and moving forward. As […]
From laws to implementation – civil society advocacy helps secure US$20 million for communities affected by mining
Story of Change In 2015, following an intensive campaign by civil society, the Government of Burkina Faso adopted a new mining code requiring mining companies to pay 1 per cent of their gross revenues to a community development fund. By July 2019, more than 12 billion Central African Francs (CFA), around US$20 million, had been […]
PWYP Members in Niger finally released. Now their charges must be dropped.
After spending six months in jail on fabricated charges, three members of the global Publish What You Pay (PWYP) movement in Niger were released on bail, following a concerted campaign by civil society groups around the world. On 29 September 2020, Maïkoul Zodi was granted bail by a senior judge in Niger’s capital, Niamey. The […]
Niger: human rights defenders still unjustly detained for more than six months
Johannesburg, 15 September 2020 *** Update 30 September 2020: Moudi Moussa and Halidou Mounkaila have been released on bail. ** Update 29 September 2020: Maikoul Zodi has been released on bail. On 15 September 2020 it will be six months since three human rights defenders were jailed in Niger simply for participating in peaceful protests calling for […]
Democratic Republic of Congo: harassment of Jean Claude Katende, a leader in the fight for human rights and transparency
Communique September 2020 Download the PDF version and please disseminate widely. Publish What You Pay (PWYP)’s Africa Steering Committee (ASC) calls on the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) authorities to do everything possible to end the harassment of Jean-Claude Katende. The accession of the current President and his government gave rise to new hope of […]
Niger: 100-day detention of three activists highlights deterioration of freedom of expression
This article was prepared by Amnesty International (here), which allowed us to publish it on the PWYP site. We invite you to take action using this letter, which we have prepared with Amnesty, as a template for reaching out to relevant local and regional contacts. Authorities in Niger should drop trumped-up charges and immediately release […]
PWYP members’ experiences of closing civic space
Consultation report for 2019 To understand members’ experiences more fully and identify their challenges and needs around civic freedoms, the PWYP Secretariat carried out in-depth profiling of the situation in two countries: Niger and the Republic of the Congo. We then carried out an online survey to find out more about members’ experiences facing increasingly […]
Civic space: Strategic Framework 2020-2022
Civic space: a ground-breaking road map for addressing threats to civic space in the extractive sector PWYP’s Strategic Framework on civic space for 2020-2022 provides a road map for addressing threats to civic space in the extractive sector, in particular those faced by PWYP members. Natural resource activists campaigning against the harmful impact of extraction, […]
Rebels with a cause – a lesson in courage
In 2019, Publish What You Pay (PWYP) recognised the need to develop a long-term strategic approach on civic space, to support the work of our 700 members. Many of them work in increasingly difficult conditions and face growing threats in response to their commitment to transparency and justice in the extractive industries. In 2020, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]