Tag Archives | natural resources

Papua New Guinea: fighting for the rule of law

30 July 2014 in Accountability, Asia Pacific, Civil society, Politics and government, Poverty and development

Politics in Papua New Guinea (PNG)  – an island state with 850 languages, three official languages for administration and 7 million people – are complicated at the best of times and extremely tempestuous at the moment. The Prime Minister Peter O’Neill is facing corruption charges and is working under the threat of an arrest warrant. […]

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Shelving the shells

19 March 2014 in Access to information, Anti-corruption movement, Asset recovery, Financial Markets, Impunity, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Private sector

From one corruption fighting organisation to another, hats off to Global Witness. Founder Charmian Gooch and her colleagues have been recognised for their stellar efforts to highlight the damage done by corrupt practices in the extractives sector. In her award winning TED talk, Gooch highlighted the role of ‘the facilitators’ – global banks and global […]

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African Renaissance comes through the reinforcement of institutions

24 May 2013 in Africa and Middle East, Oil and gas, Politics and government, Poverty and development

The African Union (AU) celebrates its 50th anniversary on 25 May with an extraordinary summit in Addis Ababa, under the theme “Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance”. The AU as it has been known since 2002 is the successor to the Organization of African Unity founded (OAU) on 25 May 1963 when 32 recently independent African countries […]

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Will the fruits of Africa’s commodity boom be lost to corruption?

4 April 2012 in Africa and Middle East, European Union, Poverty and development, Private sector

As the prices of oil and other non-renewable commodities begin to soar once again, anti-corruption activists from DR Congo, Ghana, Liberia and Zimbabwe were in Brussels last week with the message that there is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get their economies on a sustainable development path, a path that has been blocked by corruption in […]

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A Green Resource Curse: rare earth metals

14 March 2012 in Climate Change, Private sector

A global trade dispute is brewing over the rare metals inside many of our favourite technologies such as smart phones or hybrid cars. Last year, an article published in Transparency International’s Climate Change edition of the Global Corruption Report warned about the corruption risks in the countries where many of these valuable raw materials are […]

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Will the EU deliver transparency in the oil and gas sector?

24 October 2011 in European Union, Private sector

Tomorrow, European Commissioners decide the final text of proposals to make it mandatory for oil, gas and mining companies listed in the EU to disclose payments to governments. Carl Dolan, policy officer for Transparency International in Brussels, calls for more pressure on Brussels to deliver strong measures. There is a depressing correlation between natural resource […]

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