This film highlights the work of PWYP in Niger (ROTAB) which is campaigning for greater transparency and accountability in the oil, gas and mining industries.
Today over 500 civil society organizations from 40 countries submitted a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Mary Jo White, calling on the SEC to promptly re-issue a strong implementing rule for the landmark oil, gas, and mining payment disclosure provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, Section 1504.
If keeping citizens in the dark is your thing – you might have been better off staying in bed on January 16, 2014.
In a recent speech at the 2013 Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit, I was pleased to hear that British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the UK was making several important commitments in the country’s new National Action Plan (NAP) to increase transparency and combat corruption.