Extracts of Briefing Paper for the Round Table hosted by the IASB extractive activities research project team and the Revenue Watch Institute – London, 15th September, 2008

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Ghana discovers oil, and has an opportunity to use it for development—if it can avoid the usual traps of new oil wealth in developing countries.

This report focuses on the paradoxical links between natural resource wealth and child poverty in developing countries, including Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Sudan and Venezuela. It includes recommendations for governments, companies, shareholders, donors and civil society on how to enhance transparency over company payments and government revenues, which Save the Children UK believes to be integral to a more accountable system for the management of such revenues that is in the best interests of children.

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At a meeting in Brazzaville on Monday 10 April 2006, the Permanent Council of the Bishops Conference (CEC) of the Republic of Congo was informed by Abbé Félicien Mavoungou, National Coordinator of the Episcopal Justice and Peace (JP) Commission that Brice Mackosso, Permanent Secretary of the JP Commission and Christian Mounzeo, President of the Rencontre pour la Paix et les Droits de l’Homme (RPDH) had been arrested and imprisoned in Pointe-Noire (PN).

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Washington – “La Banque manifeste sa préoccupation devant l’arrestation dans la République du Congo de deux représentants de la société civile, Brice Mackosso de la Commission Justice et Paix de l’Eglise Catholique et Christian Mounzeo, Président de la Rencontre pour la Paix et les Droits de l’Homme.

Africa is fast becoming a key supplier of oil to the United States. In a decade, nearly a quarter of all oil supplies will come from the region. As this report argues, despite this “oil boom” ordinary Africans will see no improvements to their lives so long as revenues continue to flow into governments lacking in transparency and accountability. This report addresses two key questions: How can Africa’s oil boom contribute to relieving poverty? What policy changes should be implemented to promote the management and allocation of oil revenues in a way that will benefit ordinary Africans?

Remarks on the occasion of the Timor-Leste Network for Transparency and Economic Justice (NeTEJ) Workshop on “Transparency and Economic Justice” in Dili, Timor Leste

United Nations General Assembly
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 56
Globalisation and interdependence

Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Canada, Congo, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Moldova, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Sierra Leone, Spain, Timor-Leste, Turkey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Yemen: draft resolution

Strengthening transparency in industries

The General Assembly,
Recalling the 2005 World Summit Outcome,

Reaffirming the Accra Accord, the outcome of the twelfth session of the United N