The Publish What You Pay coalition held its International Conference in Montreal in Canada 16-18 November, as previously reported. On the last day, the global civil society coalition issued a communiqué that is now available in English and French at the PWYP website.
November 23rd 2009 - 12:02PM ... Anders Tunold Kråkenes
Two hundred activists from over 50 countries convened in Montreal 16-18 November for a three-day conference of the Publish What You Pay coalition, the global campaign for transparency and accountability in the oil, gas and mining industries. The delegates represented hundreds of organisations working in resource-rich nations around the globe with the aim to ensure that citizens are able to benefit from their countries’ natural resources.
August 20th 2009 - 8:32AM ... Anders Tunold Kråkenes
The civil society representatives of the multi-stakeholder group in Niger suspended on 16 August their participation in the EITI process until further notice.
January 8th 2009 - 7:10PM ... Anders Tunold Kråkenes
The Gabonese authorities arrested six civil society activists and journalists on 31 December 2008. Among the four still in detention are Marc Ona Essangui, member of the EITI Interest Group and PWYP Coordinator in Gabon, Georges Mpaga, also from PWYP, and Gregory Ngoua Mintsa of the non-governmental organisation ROLBG, who is civil plaintiff in a complaint filed in Paris on 2 December 2008, calling for an investigation into assets acquired in France by the Heads of State of Gabon, the Republic of Congo and Equatorial Guinea. The EITI Chairman has communicated his concern about the arrests to President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, recalling that the free and active engagement of civil society is an indispensable precondition for credible and sustainable EITI implementation.
