Publish What You Pay – US & EU Legislation

Publish What You Pay is an alliance of over 650 civil society groups in 57 countries that was co-founded by Global Witness in 2002. PWYP campaigns for greater transparency in the extractives industries, so that revenues from the oil, gas and mining sectors are used to improve the lives of people in resource-rich countries.

Every year, oil, gas and mining companies make payments worth hundreds of billions of dollars to governments for access to the world’s natural resources, including taxes, royalties and license fees. But these payments are often made in secret, enabling corrupt officials to siphon off or misappropriate natural resource revenues.

Publish What You Pay campaigns to promote greater transparency in the extractive industries, so that citizens of resource-rich countries are able track the money being paid for their natural resources and hold their governments to account for how its used.

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Thursday's 6th Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Global Conference in Sydney will see oil, gas and mining executives,... more
The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced yesterday that they are opening a criminal investigation into FTSE 100 mining company Eurasian Natural... more
Beny Steinmetz Group Resources says there was no corrupt behaviour in its acquisition of licences to one of the world’s largest iron ore concessions... more