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15th May 2013 El proyecto de construcción de una carretera de 270 km de longitud atravesando la Amazonía peruana está plagado de incumplimientos de la ley y posibles conflictos de intereses, según ha declarado hoy Global Witness en su nuevo informe ...

15th May 2013 Plans to build a 270 km highway through the Peruvian Amazon are mired in legal violations and potential conflicts of interest, said Global Witness in a new report today. Include in Homepage Featured Items feed:  ...

14th May 2013 Naturalist and comedian Bill Oddie has been filmed being evicted from HSBC’s London headquarters while protesting against the bank’s business ties to companies that are illegally destroying rainforests and abusing human rights in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Include...

7th May 2013 Include in Homepage Featured Items feed:  off English version 内容提要 全球见证2013年3月的实地调查揭示了刚果民主共和国（简称刚果（金））东部黄金生产的重重黑幕。这些黄金给刚果以及布隆迪残暴的武装集团以及军队的高级军官们带来了巨大收益，它们通过布隆迪的国内黄金产业被“洗白”并出口到迪拜。无论当地收购者还是国际商家，都没有对他们收购的黄金进行充分的审核，以确保这些交易不会为冲突或侵犯人权的行为提供资金。 read more...

14th May 2013 Naturalist and comedian Bill Oddie has been filmed being evicted from HSBC’s London headquarters while protesting against the bank’s business ties to companies that are illegally destroying rainforests and abusing human rights in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Include...

29th April 2013 Include in Homepage Featured Items feed:  off English version 2013 年 4 月 9 日，欧盟各成员国、欧洲议会和欧盟委员会同意批准《会计指令》及《透明度指令》。这些指令要求石油、天然气、采矿及采伐企业每年披露在其有经营活动的所有国家里为获得自然资源而向当地政府做出的支付活动。 指令要求企业披露每个资源项目中所有达到 10 万欧元及更高金额的支付活动，由此做出高度细分。 指令还对欧盟与美国证券交易委员会 (SEC) 的《多德—弗兰克法案》（第 1504 节）中的实施规则做了统一，后者也要求石油、天然气和采矿企业按照国家和项目逐一披露其对各国政府的支付细节。 read more...

30th April 2013 Include in Homepage Featured Items feed:  off English version 全球见证组织新近发布的报告显示，在非经营企业、当地林业主管官员和政客正在利用小型伐木许可发放上的监管漏洞为非法木材进入欧盟大开方便之门，阻碍非洲保护森林的进程。 这份名为《影中伐木》的报告揭示了在喀麦隆、刚果民主共和国、加纳和利比里亚等国家，伐木企业秘密地利用原本旨在推动小企业发展和满足当地人口对木材需求的伐木许可，进行大规模伐木作业的真相。这些“影子许可证”让大型伐木企业得以避开当地有关部门的监管，从大规模伐木作业中牟取暴利。 read more...

10th May 2013 Include in Homepage Featured Items feed:  off English  欧盟于2010年通过了《欧盟木材法规》（EUTR），2013年3月生效，规定任何企业若在欧盟市场上出售非法采伐的木材或者用非法木材制成的商品，均属违法。该法规对“非法采伐”的定义为，在违反采伐国法律和法规情况下采伐木材。 联合国环境规划署和国际刑警组织最近发布的一份报告估计，非法采伐的木材已经占到主要热带木材生产国采伐量的50-90%，占到全球采伐总量的15-30% 。与此同时，中国已经成为世界上最大的木制品进口国 。 相应的，欧盟目前已经成为中国的第二大木制品出口市场，2010年欧盟的进口量为848万立方米，价值50亿美元，另外还有价值13亿美元的240万立方米纸制品 。将木材或木制品销往欧盟市场的中国企业也必须遵守《欧盟木材法规》；若不遵守，也会被处罚。 所以，这项新的欧盟法规对那些向欧盟出口木制品或木材的中国企业也具有重大意义，因为那些产品有可能是非法采伐的。...

13th May 2013 The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank are financing Vietnamese rubber companies driving a wave of land and forest "grabs" in Cambodia and Laos, according to a new report and film by Global Witness. Include in...

13th May 2013 The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank are financing Vietnamese rubber companies driving a wave of land and forest "grabs" in Cambodia and Laos, according to a new report and film by Global Witness. The report, “Rubber Barons”, reveals...

10th May 2013 Include in Homepage Featured Items feed:  off 简体中文 The European Union agreed the EU Timber Regulations (EUTR) in 2010, making it illegal as of 3 March 2013 for any company to place illegally harvested timber or products made from...

10th May 2013 Include in Homepage Featured Items feed:  off Money launderers, corrupt politicians, terrorists, arms traffickers, drug smugglers, and tax evaders all rely on two things to move their dirty money: company structures that allow them to hide their identity,...

9th May 2013 Les révisions prévues de la loi sur les hydrocarbures de la RD Congo contiennent des défauts majeurs qui pourraient laisser libre court à une mauvaise gestion flagrante de la richesse pétrolière du pays et entraîner de graves répercussions sur...

9th May 2013 There have been two cost/benefit analyses carried out looking at the costs of a beneficial ownership registry: one done by the UK in 2002(1) and one done by the European Commission in 2007. Both concluded that public registries of...

9th May 2013 Campaign group Global Witness has backed a call by prominent figures including Kofi Annan, Bob Geldof and Graca Machel for Africa’s natural resource wealth to be used for the benefit of its people. Include in Homepage Featured...

9th May 2013 Planned revisions to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s hydrocarbons law contain major flaws that could allow gross mismanagement of the country’s oil wealth and serious environmental impacts. The draft text, published by Global Witness today, is before the parliament...

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7th May 2013 Global Witness' investigation last month in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) revealed high-level military involvement in the region's minerals trade. A briefing published today outlines findings from research carried out in DRC's North and South Kivu provinces, Burundi...

3rd May 2013 Global Witness welcomes a new audit recommending that the Liberian government take immediate action to address systematic gaps in compliance with laws on how its natural resources are allocated. The report, commissioned by LEITI, Liberia’s groundbreaking transparency initiative, revealed...

7th May 2013 Diarmid O'Sullivan, Open Society Foundation research fellow and ex-Global Witness campaigner has released a report today on how transparency helps identify problems in the governance of natural resources, as well as the challenges in ensuring that this transparency leads...