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 | June 25, 2012 Responsible Minerals Oil, Gas & Mining D.R. Congo Bipartisan Congressional Letter Calls on SEC to Issue Rules on Corruption and Conflict Minerals WASHINGTON, DC - Global Witness applauds the bipartisan call by 58 Members of Congress for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to immediately release the final rules for two sections of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) aimed at decreasing corruption and conflict relating to the extractive industries. The law, passed in July 2010, required the SEC to issue final rules for these provisions in April 2011. Fourteen months after missing this deadline, the SEC is refusing to name a date for their publication. | May 30, 2012 Oil, Gas & Mining Nigeria Shell and ENI must come clean over oil deals in Nigeria Explanations made by Shell and ENI about payments made for a controversial oil deal in Nigeria are no longer sufficient and they must immediately come clean with more information about the deal, said Global Witness today. The call comes in response to a statement made by the Nigerian government which contradicts those made by Shell and ENI. | May 20, 2012 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Shell’s obscure payments kill its case for weak US and EU transparency laws For further information about this story, download the Global Witness briefing: Shell’s obscure payments kill its case for weak US and EU transparency laws The details of payments agreed by Shell to the Nigerian Government for a controversial oil deal expose the urgent need for the very transparency measures which Shell is currently opposing. | May 17, 2012 Oil, Gas & Mining South Sudan South Sudan faces test of transparency commitments in pursuing oil-backed financing South Sudan must exercise caution and total transparency in pursuing oil-backed financing, said Global Witness today. The detailed publication of any loan agreement will be critical in preventing exploitative terms, corruption, and mismanagement from undermining immediate benefits. | May 8, 2012 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining D.R. Congo Glencore « devrait s’expliquer sur des contrats potentiellement corrompus au Congo », affirme Global Witness Global Witness appelle aujourd’hui la compagnie Glencore à s’expliquer sur des contrats potentiellement corrompus qu’elle a conclus en République démocratique du Congo, et lui demande instamment de fournir de plus amples détails sur les relations qu’elle entretient avec un homme d’affaires israélien qui joue un rôle clé dans les investissements miniers considérables de la compagnie dans ce pays. | May 5, 2012 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining D.R. Congo Glencore ‘should explain potentially corrupt deals in Congo’ – Global Witness Further information about Global Witness's investigation into Glencore’s investments in Congo and the company’s links to Dan Gertler, as well as written responses by Glencore and Mr Gertler’s representatives to questions from Global Witness can be found at www.globalwitness.org/secretsales | April 24, 2012 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Liberia Global Witness welcomes oil sector reforms by the Liberian Government Recent pledges by the Liberian Government to enhance transparency and the involvement of civil society in its oil sector represent are a welcome step forward, says Global Witness today. | April 23, 2012 Oil, Gas & Mining EU must not allow big oil to undermine vital transparency law Read more about the campaign at www.globalwitness.org/dictatorscharter Ahead of Thursday’s meeting of the European Parliament's Legal Affairs committee, Global Witness staged a parade of “dictators” in protest at plans to water down upcoming European laws to make oil, mining and timber companies more transparent about the billions of dollars that they pay in revenues to countries around the world. Time and time again Global Witness has highlighted how opaque money flows get squandered and embezzled, leaving ordinary citizens mired in poverty. | April 18, 2012 Oil, Gas & Mining Angola FT sheds further light on opaque dealings in Angolan oil sector Revelations in the Financial Times on 16th April have underlined concerns, first raised by Global Witness two years ago, that senior officials in Angola have attempted to make private profits from the impoverished country’s oil sector via undisclosed interests in front companies. | April 18, 2012 Oil, Gas & Mining Angola FT sheds further light on opaque dealings in Angolan oil sector Revelations in the Financial Times on 16th April have underlined concerns, first raised by Global Witness two years ago, that senior officials in Angola have attempted to make private profits from the impoverished country’s oil sector via undisclosed interests in front companies. Show Previous 10 Show Next 10