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Global Witness
Report cover for 'A Crude Awakening'

December 1999

Global Witness releases 'A Crude Awakening'.

This ground-breaking exposé reveals how secrecy over oil revenues in Angola has helped facilitate massive corruption and prolong a bloody civil war. It shows how multinational oil companies’ refusal to release information about their payments to the government helped the Angolan elite steal billions of dollars in oil revenues. The report calls on oil companies operating in Angola to ‘publish what they pay’, the first time this idea has been mooted anywhere in the world.

Flickr: BP Images
BP oil barrels in Angola

February 2001

BP claims it will publish its payments to Angolan government.

Responding to Global Witness’s campaign, BP claims it will publish details of the US$111 million it paid to the Angolan government as a “signature bonus” for an offshore oil licence.

PWYP
PWYP logo

June 2002

Global Witness conceives and co-launches Publish What You Pay

Global Witness devises the idea of a campaign which calls for all natural resource companies to disclose their payments to governments for every country they operate in. Global Witness co-launches the Publish What You Pay campaign along with other founding members, CAFOD, Open Society Institute, Save the Children UK and Transparency International UK.

EITI
EITI logo

September 2002

The EITI is founded.

The Extractive Industries Voluntary Initiative (EITI) is a voluntary alliance of governments and civil society which aims to make oil and mining industry revenues more transparent by monitoring incoming and outgoing money flows. The EITI’s rules require member governments to ensure all extractive companies based in their jurisdiction publish their payments to governments.

 
February 2001
BP claims it will publish its payments to Angolan government.

Global Witness releases 'A Crude Awakening'.

BP claims it will publish its payments to Angolan government.

Global Witness conceives and co-launches Publish What You Pay

The EITI is founded.

GW commissions draft Publish What You Pay bill.

Global Witness releases 'Time for Transparency'.

EITI endorsed by G8 leaders at summit at Sea Island, USA.

First countries become EITI Compliant.

Obama signs Dodd-Frank Act Section 1504 into law.

The EU passes the Accounting Directive.

Norway passes mandatory disclosure law.

UK implements the EU Accounting Directive.

Statoil discloses payments to government.

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