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We are asking all Publish What You Pay supporters in the UK to contact your MP and encourage them to to attend a parliamentary debate on 1 March on a Bill which would require oil, gas and mining companies to publish what they pay to all governments around the world.

Anas Sarwar (the MP for Glasgow Central) has tabled a “Ten minute Rule Motion” for debate on 1 March in which he will give a ten minute speech in Parliament, followed by a short time for MPs to discuss the issue.

24 August 2010 – Sir, Several recent articles have drawn attention to key developments in bringing to light corruption in African extractive industries. New US legislation may now lead to a quantum leap in replacing the opacity that clouds this sector with transparency. Tucked into the new US financial reform law that President Barack Obama recently signed are provisions that require US companies in the oil, gas and mining businesses to file independently audited statements on their payments to foreign governments to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Date: 21/5/10
Location: Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC

On a Friday a lively panel discussion will take place highlighting gaps in existing oil sector transparency efforts, and explore why U.S.

In an effort to capture the incredible work that national coalitions carry out and to provide a better idea of the context in which national coalitions operate, we are very pleased to introduce a new series of Publish What You Pay Spotlights on National Coalitions.

These articles are written by the PWYP international office and are based on interviews with national coordinators and key members of national coalitions. They aim to provide greater coverage and an improved understanding of national coalitions and their work on campaigning for greater transparency and accountability in the extractive industries. We hope that these articles will contribute to greater sharing of experiences, peer learning across the global PWYP campaign and also be of interest to the general public.

On 19 January 2010 the BBC’s The World Tonight radio programme featured a section on the resource curse. Radhika Sarin, PWYP International Coordinator and Emmanuel Kuyole, RWI Africa Regional Coordinator were both interviewed.

Click 'play' to listen.

The PWYP Team would like to share with you the news that the Gilbert Maoundonodji has been named as one of Africa’s “100 personalities to impact 2010” by the weekly news magazine Jeune Afrique. Gilbert is a member of the Publish What You Pay/Publish What You Earn coalition in Chad. He is also a civil society representative on the international Board of the EITI.

Congratulations Gilbert!

Below is the write-up translated into English.

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L‘équipe de PCQVP souhaite vous informer que Gilbert Maoundonodji a été désigné l’une des « 100 personnalités qui feront 2010 » en Afrique par l’hebdomadaire Jeune Afrique Magazine. Gilbert est membre de la coalition tchadienne Publiez Ce Que Vous Payez/Publiez Ce Que Vous Gagnez. Il est également un des représentants de la société civile au sein du Conseil international de l’ITIE.

Félicitations Gilbert!

Vous trouverez l’article ci-dessous.

U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission), and Co-Chairman Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) have just released a video promoting transparency in the energy sector. The video includes U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, and experts Ian Gary, senior policy advisor for extractive industries with PWYP member Oxfam America, and Jonas Moberg, head of secretariat at EITI, speaking about how transparency in oil, gas and mining can empower citizens to hold governments accountable and gain benefit from their countries’ natural resource wealth.

The PWYP International Conference last month was attended by accredited media from the press, television and radio. This included journalists from Radio Canada International, the Aboriginal People’s Television Channel, AfriqueCanada.tv and The Canadian Press Agency.

We are collecting together articles and interviews conducted and generated as a result of the conference. They are availabe here: http://www.publishwhatyoupay.org/en/resources/media-coverage-pwyp-intern…

A new report from International Alert which examines the potential of Uganda’s newly discovered oil reserves and recommends increased transparency and principled leadership to promote broad economic opportunities of oil discovery for peace and development in Uganda.

This discovery of oil, taking place within a context of a variety of tensions that exist on both sides of the DRC-Uganda border, represents a potential risk of conflict and presents a peacebuilding challenge for local communities, the government, priva

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Rotab/PWYP Niger member Wada Maman was provisionally released yesterday evening but still faces charges of “participation in an unauthorized demonstration”, “damage to public buildings” and “destruction of private property”. Maman was arrested on 22 August by the Republican Guard in Niamey following a series of arrests of civil society activists in the wake of the deteriorating human rights and political situation in Niger.