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21.02.2012 | BP makes opaque payments for Angola oil block as petro-lobby seeks weak transparency rules
Washington DC/ London, February 16, 2012: The Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development (... read more
14.02.2012 | Oil Industry must stop supporting secrecy say financial transparency and anti-poverty groups
Washington, DC – Anti-poverty groups and supporters of financial transparency today urged the oil industry... read more
14.02.2012 | Don’t let Mugabe be your Valentine
Read the report: Diamonds: A good deal for Zimbabwe?
This Valentines Day, Global Witness is publishing a... read more
13.02.2012 | Diamonds: A Good Deal for Zimbabwe?
Diamonds: A good deal for Zimbabwe? reveals that several directors of one of the largest mining companies... read more
Washington DC/ London, February 16, 2012: The Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development (... read more
14.02.2012 | Oil Industry must stop supporting secrecy say financial transparency and anti-poverty groups
Washington, DC – Anti-poverty groups and supporters of financial transparency today urged the oil industry... read more
14.02.2012 | Don’t let Mugabe be your Valentine
Read the report: Diamonds: A good deal for Zimbabwe?
This Valentines Day, Global Witness is publishing a... read more
The African Union, China, and western governments must push for an immediate resolution to the ongoing oil... read more
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More transparency is needed in the oil, gas and mining industries to prevent the... read more
Please see the attached letter from seven international non-governmental organizations, experts on the... read more
This submission focuses on the role of the financial sector of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in... read more
06.12.2011 | The need for resource transparency beyond the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative : Lessons Learned
Over the next three years, Afghanistan will be awarding contracts for many of its valuable mineral and... read more
05.12.2011 | Why we are leaving the Kimberley Process - A message from Global Witness Founding Director Charmian Gooch
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The diamond trader looked me in the eye and said "If I don't buy them somebody else... read more
30.11.2011 | External briefing on Safeguarding REDD+
This briefing, carries out by consultant group LTS International, examines existing systems for ensuring... read more
This article was published in the Financial Times on 24th February 2011.
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Global Witness's Anthea Lawson and the Financial Task Force's Christine Clough discuss ways to address the... read more
03.02.2011 | Global Witness for The Times - British business simply can not afford a delay to the Bribery Act
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We are desperately trying to rebuild British business after the... read more
Read this blog on Huffington Post.
When governments around the world are taking measures in support of... read more
This piece first ran on the Guardian website.
The rich world has been busy tightening its belt in... read more
18.11.2011 | Reuters Africa: South Sudan assertive on oil sales
South Sudan will market its crude through its oil ministry, an oil official said on Thursday casting... read more
Some donors do well, all donors can do better, writes Publish What You Fund. read more
Britain is being urged to help close down a legal loophole that lets financiers known as "vulture funds"... read more
15.11.2011 | BBC: Call for greater aid transparency
A UK-based lobby group is calling for more transparency in the spending of global development aid,... read more
Clariden Leu AG, with roots that make it Switzerland's oldest private bank, has begun telling certain U.S.... read more
Rob Walker of the BBC Assignment team investigates what’s happened to billions of dollars in oil... read more
Global Witness has long campaigned for companies to come clean about who actually owns them. In most... read more
Diamonds worth hundreds of millions of dollars are due to be put on sale on Friday by a joint Chinese-... read more
China, the largest buyer of Sudanese crude oil, is pressing Sudan and the newly independent South Sudan to... read more
Sudan said on Monday it had halted landlocked South Sudan's oil exports until the two agree on a transit... read more
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18.11.2011 | Reuters Africa: South Sudan assertive on oil sales
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