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. 1, 2004 Responsible Minerals Conflict resources undermine peacebuilding as war in Congo looms Thousands of troops are currently massing on the DRC/Rwandan border and a return to major conflict looms. Rwanda justifies intervention in Eastern DRC by security concerns over Interahamwe rebels based in the country. But there are also important economic motivations behind Rwanda’s actions. Unless the links between resources and conflict can be severed, there will be little chance of lasting peace in the African Great Lakes region. | Nov. 19, 2004 Responsible Minerals Great Lakes leaders urged to sever links between natural resources and conflict Leaders attending the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region in Dar es Salaam on 19 and 20 November are being urged by Global Witness (1) to address the issue of continual links between natural resource exploitation and conflict as a matter of urgency for regional peace and security. | Oct. 29, 2004 Diamonds Responsible Minerals PROGRESS AND SETBACKS AT KIMBERLEY PROCESS PLENARY Lack of Agreement on Statistics Weakens Certification System | Oct. 22, 2004 Diamonds Responsible Minerals Weak Controls and “Poverty Diamonds” Diamond controls in many countries are seriously flawed. But controls alone will probably never work unless diamond digging in some African countries pays more than a dollar a day. These are messages contained in two reports released today, prepared jointly by Global Witness and Partnership Africa Canada, NGOs closely involved in the creation of the Kimberley Process diamond certification system. | Oct. 21, 2004 Diamonds Responsible Minerals PROGRESS ON CONFLICT DIAMONDS COMPROMISED BY LACK OF RUSSIAN STATISTICS Major Diamond Player in Non-Compliance with Worldwide Agreement On October 27, delegates from more than 40 countries, plus all those represented by the European Commission, will gather in Ottawa with representatives of the world’s diamond industry and the civil society organizations that have been campaigning against conflict diamonds, to assess the progress of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS). Canada has chaired the Kimberley process during 2004. | Oct. 20, 2004 Responsible Minerals Violence erupts in mineral rich Katanga…yet the international community Global Witness is greatly concerned by last week’s violence in Katanga Province, Southeastern DRC . Just as we predicted in our September 2004 report, “Rush & Ruin: the devastating mineral trade in Southern Katanga”, escalating tension in Katanga could spell further disaster for the DRC, already wracked by the deaths of 3.5 million people over the past five years. | Oct. 18, 2004 Diamonds Responsible Minerals Conflict Diamonds: Jewellers keeping consumers in the dark A survey out today reveals that almost two years after the diamond industry committed itself to a system of self-regulation to prevent the trade in diamonds from regions of conflict, retailers in the US and UK are still failing to live up to their promises. | Sept. 29, 2004 Responsible Minerals D.R. Congo Des millions de dollars de revenus disparaissent dans la « ruée vers le cobalt » au Congo(1) Au moment où la communauté internationale verse des milliards de dollars d'aide à la République démocratique du Congo (RDC), un rapport publié aujourd'hui par Global Witness(2) constate que l'Etat perd d'énormes recettes en raison d'un manque de contrôle épouvantable du secteur minier. | Sept. 29, 2004 Responsible Minerals Millions of dollars in revenue vanish in Congo’s(1) “cobalt rush” At a time that the international community is providing billions of dollars in aid to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the state is losing vast quantities of revenues due to an appalling lack of control over the mining sector, according to a new report released today by Global Witness.(2) | Sept. 14, 2004 Responsible Minerals Forests Liberia: Resource - Curse or Cure Liberia: Lifting UN sanctions before Security Council criteria are met will jeopardise Liberia’s recovery and threaten regional peace and security. Show Previous 10 Show Next 10