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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 […]
Bringing Beneficial Owners out of Hiding
PWYP Zimbabwe is pressing for the country’s new register of beneficial ownership to be publicly accessible, so people can use it to fight corruption There was joy in Zimbabwe in early 2020 when we followed many other countries worldwide in establishing our first beneficial ownership register. These registers enable people to see who really owns […]
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 […]
Making extractive sector governance work for development
PWYP has launched a three-year project to strengthen oversight of the extractive sector by civil society and communities in Iraq, Kenya and Lebanon In resource-rich countries, extractive sector revenues can change people’s lives. Spent well, they can fund huge improvements to infrastructure and services such as health care and education. But unless they are carefully […]
EITI necessary for transparency and accountability reforms in Zimbabwe mineral resource governance
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Zimbabwe has noted with regret that the government of Zimbabwe is not keen to join the Extractive Transparency Industries Initiative (EITI). This is based on the newspaper article that was published in the Independent on the 31st of January 2020. The Minister of Finance in the 2019 Budget Statement mentioned […]
Transparency and the challenging path to accountability, lessons from Gwanda mining community
This is an extract from a blog, cross-posted from Mukasiri Sibanda’s website, which showcase the collaborative work of two PWYP coalitions – PWYP Zimbabwe and PWYP Canada. Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA), Gwanda Residents Association (GRA) and Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Canada are currently working on a joint study, assessing the impact of Caledonia’s […]
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 […]
Resource Guide: 2020 SEC Rulemaking for Section 1504, U.S. Oil and Mining Anti-Corruption Rule
On December 18, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a draft implementing rule for Section 1504, a key oil and mining anti-corruption law in the United States enacted with bipartisan support in 2010. The provision mandates regulations requiring all oil, gas, and mining companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to disclose the […]
PWYP UK welcomes fifth UK EITI report, but has the UK fiscal regime been too generous to industry?
In December 2019, the United Kingdom’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) oversaw publication of the UK’s Kingdom’s fifth EITI report, covering calendar year 2018. Former Prime Minister Theresa May had written in 2018 in her foreword to the UK Government’s A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment (pages […]
Time to act: Protect defenders who speak up against business impact on people and planet
On Human Rights Day, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights together with the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and a group of civil society organizationsi are highlighting a key message from the recent UN Forum on Business and Human Rights (Geneva, 25-27 November 2019): that the international community must take concrete actions […]
Shining a Light on Extractive Sector Tax
PWYP is launching a new project in Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda to promote transparency in tax flows from extraction and help people influence decisions on how revenues are spent The extraction of oil, gas and minerals has huge potential to improve people’s lives. In resource-rich countries, the extractive sector can be an important source of […]
IMF: Delay Vote on Equatorial Guinea Loan
Risk of Subsidizing Systemic Abuses, Corruption (Washington, DC) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Executive Board should delay a planned December 2019 vote on a US$280 million loan agreement with Equatorial Guinea, eight human rights and good governance organizations and eight prominent experts said today in a letter to the IMF Executive Board. The program preceding the loan […]