US Lawmakers heard from extractive industry experts at a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, 25 October 2007 to discuss the debilitating impacts of the “resource curse” and policy measures that the US Congress can adopt to address it. PWYP USA has issued a report from this hearing, enclosed here.
[img_assist|nid=257|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=150|height=63]At the 2007 G8 Summit in Heiligendamm the Heads of State and Government welcomed the proposal of the German government to host an international conference on Transparency in the Extractive Sector.
The report from the regional EITI workshop held in Chad on August 24-25 2007, is now available.
EITI Chairman, Dr. Peter Eigen, Chair of Transparency International, Huguette Labelle, and representatives from Transparency International (Indonesia) met with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on 29 October, 2007 at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta.
This newsletter contains reports from the Oslo Conference.
Chair of the EITI, Peter Eigen, discusses the status of the EITI and the new website.
This newsletter contains country updates from Mongolia, Mauritania, Peru, Nigeria, Guinea, Cameroon and Azerbaijan.
EITI Chairman, Dr.Peter Eigen will meet Indonesian authorities and executives at Pertamina. He will also address the National Parliament. We foresee this visit will lead to a fruitful engagement of Indonesia with the EITI. Dr.Eigen will be earlier attending the Transparency International Annual Meeting in Bali.
