Global Witness - Breaking the links between natural resources, conflict and corruption
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Liberian timber profits finance regional conflict
Press Release – 04/05/2001
TotalFinaElf make non-statement for Transparency in Angola
Press Release – 15/02/2001 – Portuguese
Has the diamond industry forgotten its vows? Why has the diamond industry gone quiet on self-regulation of conflict diamonds?
Press Release – 13/02/2001
Campaign Success: BP makes move for Transparency in Angola
Press Release – 12/02/2001 – Portuguese
Global Witness investigators could face two-year prison sentence
Press Release – 27/01/2001
Systematic Abuse threatens Forest Reform
Press Release – 26/01/2001
An open letter to oil company executives: Oil Company transparency & Angola
Press Release – 24/01/2001
Open letter to Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce and Trade Partners: Oil and Gas Company transparency & Angola
Press Release – 24/01/2001
Global witness calls on UN Security Council to embargo Liberian "Logs of war"
Press Release – 17/01/2001
Arms and corruption with Angola: President Chirac and President dos Santos have a lot of explaining to do
Press Release – 22/12/2000
Latest Publications
September 2010
Proposed law would cost cash-strapped Liberian Government millions
Logging companies in Liberia are trying to get out of paying millions of dollars in tax to the country’s cash-starved government through a dubious new law.
Global Witness stands by findings on Sudanese oil data
Global Witness today refuted claims that it had apologized for the findings of its September 2009 report, Fuelling Mistrust, on the lack of transparency in Sudan's oil sector. The organisation said that although very important commitments on improving transparency were made recently by the Government of National Unity (GoNU), the full disclosure of oil revenue data and the results of an independent audit remain necessary to prove the concerns were unfounded.
August 2010
Global Witness welcomes Norwegian government disinvestment from predatory loggers Samling
Global Witness welcomes the Norwegian Government Pension Fund's decision to disinvest from the notorious Malaysian timber giant Samling. Global Witness has previously exposed illegal logging by Samling in Cambodia as well as evidence of legal breaches by two Samling-associated companies in Liberia.
Global Witness welcomes new commitment to transparency in Sudan
Global Witness has participated in a landmark seminar on oil revenue transparency in Khartoum, organised by the Sudanese government and attended by foreign oil companies. We welcome the commitment to increase transparency, including an audit of the oil sector and publication of key production and revenue figures.
