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| 5 de Febrero de 2013
Brussels misses opportunity to crack down on tax evasion and corruption

The European Commission’s new draft legislation for how to crack down on financial crime, published today, misses an opportunity to make it much harder for tax evaders, mobsters, arms dealers and corrupt politicians to use Europe’s financial system to launder their dirty money.
| 1 de Febrero de 2013
- Forests
- Cameroon
- Liberia
- D.R. Congo
- Cambodia
World Bank foresters ignore independent evaluation and pledge to carry on logging the world’s rainforests

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Global Witness available for comment An independent evaluation leaked earlier this week found that the World Bank’s support for the logging of tropical rainforests is failing in its key aims of preventing their destruction and addressing rural poverty. But, according to sources in the Bank, its forestry department is refusing to reconsider its approach, is lobbying the Board hard to avoid being held accountable for its failures, and has stated its intention to continue supporting tropical forest logging.
| 15 de Enero de 2013
Limited tax payment disclosure by Shanghai-listed resource companies

简体中文 New research reveals capability and widespread support to strengthen transparency
| 11 de Enero de 2013
- Forests
- Liberia
Global Witness welcomes Liberian President’s strong action to tackle illegal logging and urges government to sanction companies and officials responsible

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s 4 January Executive Order expanding a moratorium on logging under Private Use Permits is a welcome move towards restoring the rule of law in Liberia’s forest sector. The Order also establishes that those found to be responsible for the widespread illegality and abuses associated with these permits will be subject to criminal prosecution.
| 23 de Diciembre de 2012
ENRC shareholders should reject $550 million Congo deal

Shareholders of London-listed Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation will meet on Friday 28 December to vote on a $550 million deal aimed at buying out its main copper-and-cobalt mining partner in the Democratic Republic of Congo.[i] A representative of Global Witness, holding one share in the FTSE100 company, will vote against it because of fears over corruption risks.[ii]
| 21 de Diciembre de 2012
Response to Ministry of Mines’ statement of December 2012 on “Copper Bottomed?” report

Global Witness welcomes the public response of the Ministry of Mines to our Copper Bottomed?
| 20 de Diciembre de 2012
- Forests
- Liberia
Logging company flouts Liberian President’s timber export ban and drives breakdown in rule of law

The logging company Atlantic Resources has shipped millions of dollars worth of illegal timber from Liberia in breach of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s August order to halt timber exports, Global Witness revealed today. These are the most significant illegal log exports since the timber-fuelled civil wars of the Charles Taylor era, and threaten to undermine the progress the President has made in bringing order to the forest sector.
| 12 de Diciembre de 2012
Les risques de corruption montrent que le FMI a eu raison d’arrêter son programme de prêts au Congo

(Traduction d’un communiqué originalement publié en anglais le 5 décembre 2012) Les agences de presse Bloomberg et Reuters ont signalé que le Fonds monétaire international avait arrêté son programme de prêts à la République démocratique du Congo en raison d’inquiétudes quant à la transparence dans le secteur minier de ce pays. Bien que le Congo ait désespérément besoin de financements, Global Witness estime que les inquiétudes concernant la possible corruption dans le secteur minier congolais étaient si vives que la décision du FMI d’arrêter les prêts était justifiée.
| 11 de Diciembre de 2012
Senior HSBC bankers need to face jail for their bank’s role in laundering drugs money; fining the bank won’t work

Today, Europe’s largest bank, HSBC, announced that it will pay $1.9 billion (£1.2 billion) to settle allegations that it laundered money for drugs cartels, terrorists and pariah states. During approximately the same period that HSBC failed to check whether the dollars it was shipping from Mexico to the US were drugs money, 47,000 people died at the hands of Mexican drugs traffickers.
| 10 de Diciembre de 2012
- Responsible Minerals
- D.R. Congo
Companies must come clean on conflict minerals lawsuit

On 22 August 2012 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published the final rule for Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act.

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