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Restricted Access to Information Leaves Communities in South Africa Powerless Against Mining Companies
Born about 58 km from Kathu in the dusty town of Kuruman, Boitumelo Tshethlo has over the years grown a passion to fight for human rights in his community. ‘In 2011, I was working in Johannesburg and I closely followed the Marikana story until the fateful day that miners were murdered in broad daylight for […]
Tunisians secure transparency gains, but economic development comes slower
In the cradle of the Arab Spring, continued discontent gives a PWYP member a reason to keep fighting History books will say the Arab Spring began in 2011, but the residents of Tunisia’s impoverished Gafsa region know better. In 2008, their revolt against opaque mining sector practices and government indifference prompted a violent backlash from […]
Indigenous peoples lost a powerful advocate in Indonesia
Arif Munandar, a close partner of Publish What You Pay in Indonesia, held powerful corporations accountable through the use of technology. Arif Munandar practiced two kinds of activism: one loud, one quiet. There he was clutching a megaphone and a wad of documents, shouting down Southeast Asian environmental ministers gathered at a 2006 summit. There […]
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 […]
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 […]
How Zimbabweans persuaded diamond companies and government to listen
Chiadzwa, Mutare West, Zimbabwe.Credit Robin Hammond / Panos A diamond panner attempts to sell a diamond behind the backs of the military and police who demand all sales go through them. Communities around the diamond fields of eastern Zimbabwe have bolstered their arguments for tax justice by putting data front and centre. In the predawn […]
Azerbaijan: Transparency Group Delays Reinstatement
The Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) - a voluntary initiative promoting government transparency and accountability – decided on June 28, 2017 to extend Azerbaijan’s “inactive” status in the initiative for another year.
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]