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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 | Jan. 25, 2006 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Freeport payments to Indonesian military draw official scrutiny Global Witness welcomes reports that the authorities in the United States and Indonesia are inquiring into suspicious payments to the Indonesian military and police by Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc, the US mining company. Press release | Dec. 13, 2005 Oil, Gas & Mining Congo-Brazzaville Congo oil trading scandal implicates top government officials since 2002 companies owned by oil boss Denis Gokana have bought at least US$472 million worth of oil from SNPC at significantly below-market prices, and then sold it on at a profit to independent traders. | Nov. 3, 2005 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Angola Does return of looted Angolan cash by Swiss mean impunity for looters? Does return of looted Angolan cash by Swiss mean impunity for looters? Under an agreement signed by Angola and Switzerland on 1 November, $21 million in Angolan public funds blocked in Swiss banks during a corruption investigation is to be returned to Angola, despite calls by civil society in both countries for the case not to be closed. | Oct. 20, 2005 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining GW Testimony to House Committee on International Relations SC: Hearing on the Africa Growth and Opportunity Testimony to the House Committee on International Relations Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations Subcommittee Hearing on the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act: A Five Year Assessment 20 October 2005 Submitted by Dr Sarah Wykes, Senior Campaigner, Global Witness | Sept. 19, 2005 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Reform of International Accounting Standards for Oil, Gas & Mining Offers Opportunity for Greater Transparency The reforms being considered by international accounting standard setters could give a significant boost to global efforts to better account for revenues from the extractive industries. Disclosure of revenues paid by oil, gas and mining companies for every country of operation is a fundamental step towards improving governance, reducing poverty, and combating corruption in the management of this important source of income for many of the world’s poorest countries. | Sept. 2, 2005 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Norway to be a driving force for global oil and mining transparency The Norwegian Government has today launched a major new initiative that will see them take the lead in global efforts to improve transparency and accountability over the management of revenues from oil, gas and mining industries. | Aug. 15, 2005 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining D.R. Congo Has the IMF dropped the ball on transparency reforms in the Republic of Congo? The Publish What You Pay coalition is concerned that the International Monetary Fund has given the green light for the Republic of Congo to take another step towards major debt relief, even though the government’s own figures reveal hundreds of millions of dollars of unexplained discrepancies.1 | July 25, 2005 Corruption & Money Laundering Responsible Minerals Oil, Gas & Mining Freeport and Indonesia's security forces: troubling new questions The relationship between mining company Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold and the Indonesian military - controversial since the unexplained killings of three teachers working for the company in 2002 - comes under renewed scrutiny today in a report by Global Witness. | March 16, 2005 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining EITI on the right track: let’s go further and faster We would like to congratulate those countries that are starting to improve the transparency of their revenues from oil, gas and mining by implementing the EITI. Companies, citizen’s groups, international institutions and the hard-working DFID Secretariat have all played an important part in these efforts. We hope many more host governments will now follow suit, backed up by strong international support. | March 10, 2005 Diamonds Responsible Minerals Oil, Gas & Mining Forests Corruption & Money Laundering Commission for Africa report offers opportunity to address corruption and impunity in Africa The long-awaited Commission for Africa report released tomorrow identifies poor governance, corruption, opaque business practices, and lack of political accountability as among the major challenges to Africa’s future prosperity. The report calls for the international community to help Africa to: * trace and seize the assets stolen by corrupt leaders; * promote measures to make such theft more difficult in the first place; Show Previous 10 Show Next 10