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 | July 24, 2009 Responsible Minerals D.R. Congo A selection of media coverage for 'Faced with a gun, what can you do?' Global Witness's new report 'Faced with a gun, what can you do?' names companies trading in minerals from the warring parties in the DRC. Since its release the report has featured in the international media. Some of the links and downloads are available here: Carina Tertsakian helped carry out the research in the DRC for Global Witness, she was interviewed by BBC's World Service reporter, Thomas Fessy, in Kinshasa. | July 24, 2009 Responsible Minerals D.R. Congo Global Witness answers company over DRC report Three days after the launch of its major report on the militarization of mining in the DRC, Faced with a gun, what can you do?, campaign group Global Witness has answered media reports of one company's response. | July 7, 2009 Responsible Minerals Governments D.R. Congo British government must do more to control companies Campaign group Global Witness will today present oral evidence to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Business and Human Rights in a last minute addition to the hearing schedules. To complement Global Witness' written submission and the earlier testimonies of NGOs on 9 June 2009, Gavin Hayman, Director of Campaigns, and Seema Joshi, Legal Advisor, will focus on the UK Government's role in preventing abuses by UK based companies operating in conflict affected areas. | May 18, 2009 Responsible Minerals D.R. Congo UN Security Council: Push for Civilian Protection During Congo Visit (Goma, May 18, 2009) – The United Nations Security Council, visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo beginning today, should press for urgent action to protect civilians, a coalition of 68 aid and human rights groups said today. The groups said the council should make clear to both the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo (MONUC) and the Congolese army that stronger measures to protect civilians are urgently needed during military operations against Rwandan militias. | May 18, 2009 Responsible Minerals D.R. Congo ONU : Les membres du Conseil de sécurité devraient faire pression pour la protection des civils lors de leur visite au Congo (Goma, le 18 mai 2009) – Les délégués du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies, lors de leur visite en République démocratique du Congo qui débute aujourd’hui, devraient réclamer une action urgente pour protéger les civils, a déclaré ce jour une coalition de 68 groupes d’aide humanitaire et de défense des droits humains. | May 13, 2009 Responsible Minerals D.R. Congo NGOs Welcome the Congo Conflict Minerals Act of 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C., and LONDON – Enough, the anti-genocide project at the Center for American Progress, and Global Witness, a campaign to halt the abusive exploitation of natural resources, today released the following joint statement regarding U.S. Senate Bill S. 819, the Congo Conflict Minerals Act of 2009: | March 4, 2009 Forests D.R. Congo Statement on follow-up to the legal review of logging operations in DRC On the opening of a government workshop in Kinshasa on the post-conversion process concerning DRC forest titles, international non-governmental organisations Global Witness, Greenpeace and Rainforest Foundation urge international donors to prevent the reversal of forest sector reforms that aim to increase transparency and legality and ensure that the conclusions of the Inter-Ministerial Commission (IMC), responsible for the review and conversion of eligible logging titles, be enforced. | Feb. 16, 2009 Responsible Minerals D.R. Congo Metals in mobile phones help finance Congo atrocities Annual industry meeting highlights need for due diligence on supplies As the Mobile World Congress opens in Barcelona on 16 February, Global Witness is calling on mobile phone manufacturers to audit their supply chains in order to exclude minerals financing the armed conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). | Feb. 16, 2009 Responsible Minerals D.R. Congo Les métaux présents dans les téléphones portables contribuent á financer les atrocités au Congo La rencontre annuelle du secteur de l’industrie de téléphonie mobile souligne la nécessité pour les fabricants de mettre en place des mesures de diligence raisonnable À la veille de la Conférence mondiale de la téléphonie mobile, qui débutera à Barcelone le 16 février, Global Witness demande aux fabricants de téléphones portables de soumettre leurs chaînes d’approvisionnement à un audit complet afin d’exclure les minerais qui financent le conflit armé dans l’est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC). | Feb. 5, 2009 Responsible Minerals D.R. Congo Global Witness response to the SRSG (MONUC) The letter was sent by Global Witness on 5 February 2009 in response to a letter from Mr. Alan Doss, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General to the Democratic Republic of Congo sent on 12 January 2009. Show Previous 10 Show Next 10