Filters By campaign All Anonymous companies Banks Climate breakdown Corporate accountability Corruption & money laundering Diamonds Digital threats Forests Forest transparency & IFM Forêts Fossil fuels Governments Greenwashing Land and environmental defenders Land Deals Oil, Gas & Mining Personas defensoras Pétrole, gaz et minerais Responsible Minerals Rubber in the Mekong Stop Russian oil Timber Trade Transition minerals By country All Afghanistan Angola Azerbaijan Brazil Cambodia Central African Republic China Congo-Brazzaville D.R. Congo Equatorial Guinea European Union Guinea Guyana Honduras Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Liberia Libya Madagascar Malaysia Myanmar Nicaragua Nigeria Papua New Guinea Peru Russia South Sudan Sudan The Philippines Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom United States Zimbabwe | Dec. 21, 2014 Oil, Gas & Mining Guinea Information Commissioner throws out Beny Steinmetz complaint against Global Witness Diamond billionaire Beny Steinmetz has failed in a bid to force Global Witness to hand over source material gathered in a corruption investigation after the UK’s data watchdog upheld statutory protections for public-interest journalism. | Dec. 1, 2014 Oil, Gas & Mining UK passes tough new transparency law for oil, gas and mining companies Big Oil must call off its assault on transparency, says Global Witness Click here to read our blog post on this subject | Nov. 26, 2014 Forests Land Oil, Gas & Mining Liberia Where has Liberia's illegal timber gone since August 2012? | Oct. 16, 2014 Oil, Gas & Mining Azerbaijan Azerbaijan must reverse civil society crackdowns to remain within landmark transparency scheme The international board meeting of the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) confirmed today that Azerbaijan was in breach of its requirements, by preventing civil society stakeholders from meeting, organising, accessing funds and speaking freely. | Oct. 9, 2014 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Myanmar Myanmar takes global lead on company ownership transparency To read this press release in Myanmar language, click here Read the report | Sept. 17, 2014 Oil, Gas & Mining D.R. Congo “迷雾中的钻探者”- 秘密支付及暴力氛围助英国公司打开非洲国家公园探油大门 English version 英国石油公司索科国际(Soco International,以下简称“索科”)及其承包商涉及非法交易行为,在其寻求进入非洲最古老的国家公园进行石油勘探过程中,疑似买通了武装叛军,并从刚果东部地区由政府安全部队助长的恐惧与暴力中获益。 全球见证今天发布报告,将英国200强上市企业索科公司令人震惊的行为公之于众。我们的发现基于英国电影制作人在刚果(金)收集的秘密音像资料,这些资料是一项调查中的一部分,我们对这些资料进行了审视。 | Sept. 11, 2014 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining $190m frozen in UK and Switzerland in OPL 245 bribery case as ENI CEO is named as suspect /sites/default/files/Recommon.jpg | Sept. 3, 2014 Oil, Gas & Mining D.R. Congo ‘Drillers in the mist’: How secret payments and a climate of violence helped UK firm open African national park to oil British oil company Soco International and its contractors have made illicit payments, appear to have paid off armed rebels and benefited from fear and violence fostered by government security forces in eastern Congo, as they sought access to Africa’s oldest national park for oil exploration. | Aug. 29, 2014 Oil, Gas & Mining Responsible Minerals Afghanistan NATO Urged to Recognise Natural Resource Governance as Crucial to Afghanistan’s Future Stability and Security NATO’s hopes for stability in Afghanistan – and a lasting legacy from its 11 year combat mission there – will be deeply undermined without action to address the growing threat of conflict and corruption from natural resources, a broad coalition of thirty-six Afghan and international civil society organisations has told the organisation as it prepares for its upcoming conference. | Aug. 21, 2014 Oil, Gas & Mining New UK anti-corruption rules unveiled for oil and mining companies Firms must publish project-level reports for all countries with no exceptions Global Witness warmly welcomes regulations published today by the UK Government that will implement the EU Accounting Directive. The Directive requires all 28 EU Member States to introduce legislation that compels oil, gas, mining and logging companies to publish detailed accounts of the billions of pounds-worth of payments they make to governments across the world, such as taxes, royalties and licence fees, for access to natural resources. [1] Show Previous 10 Show Next 10