- Tell Big Oil Companies: It's Time To Come Clean
- More than 1.5 billion people live in countries rich with natural resources like oil and natural gas, but are forced to survive on less than $2 a day. For these people, living near oil and mining companies doesn't mean a share of the wealth – it means environmental damage, loss of land and human rights abuses. Tell oil companies to stop fighting transparency rules – sign the petition today.
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Oil transparency rule strongly defended by SEC in court
Mar 22, 2013 -
Global oil company distances itself from oil transparency fight
Feb 08, 2013 -
Members of Congress & Oxfam defend oil and mining transparency law of Dodd-Frank Act
Jan 17, 2013 -
Lawsuit seeking to overturn oil transparency law moves forward
Dec 04, 2012 -
Big Oil loses bid to delay oil transparency law
Nov 09, 2012 -
Fight for oil and mining transparency continues
Oct 25, 2012 -
Oil industry lobby groups sue US SEC to keep payments secret
Oct 11, 2012 -
Experts find increasing trend of oil and mining companies adopting human rights policies
Sep 26, 2012 -
Oil and mining transparency revolution continues across the Atlantic
Sep 18, 2012 -
Peruvian government stands up to US lead company
Aug 28, 2012
- Protect Community Rights and Resources Fact Sheet
- Over 60 percent of the world's poorest people live in countries rich in natural resources—but they rarely share in the wealth. Too often, poor communities have no say in the extraction of resources from their land and receive little information about these projects.
- Community Consent Index
- Oil, Gas and Mining Company Public Positions on Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC)
- From Controversy to Consensus?
- Lessons learned from government and company consultations with indigenous organizations in Peru and Bolivia
- The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Prior Consultation: The Situation in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
- This study illustrates the barriers to exercising the right to prior consultation and consent in each of these four countries, and is intended to encourage broad debate.
- Ghana's Oil Readiness Report
- Civil society groups in Ghana have produced a report on the country’s readiness to deal with the challenges and meet the expectations of joining the league of oil producing nations.
- Case Study: Bolivian Government Consultation with the Guaraní Indigenous Peoples of Charagua Norte and Isoso
- Proposed hydrocarbons exploration project in San Isidro Block Santa Cruz, Bolivia
- Community-based human rights impact assessments: Practical lessons
- Report from an international meeting, Canada 2010
- People, power, and pipelines
- Lessons from Peru in the governance of gas production revenues
- Review of IFC Performance Standards and Sustainability Policy
- Recommendations from Oxfam International
- International Conference on Extractive Industries Contracts
- Conference Report
- Review of Major Mining, Oil, and Gas Company Policies on Free Prior and Informed Consent and Social License
- The following document is an attempt to cull publicly available statements concerning community consent by leading oil, gas and mining companies. It is not intended to be exhaustive, but is merely our best effort to compile existing statements by corporations on this issue.
- Mining conflicts in Peru: Condition critical
- Metals, mining, and sustainable development in Central America
- An assessment of benefits and costs
- Ghana's Big Test
- Oil's challenge to democratic development
- Corporate Social Responsibility in the Mining Sector in Peru
- Golden Rules
- Around the world, large-scale metals mining takes an enormous toll on the health of the environment and communities. Gold mining, in particular, is one of the dirtiest industries in the world.
- Hidden Treasure?
- In search of Mali's gold-mining revenues
- Tarnished Gold
- Mining and the unmet promise of development
- Transparency Begins at Home
- An assessment of United States revenue transparency and extractive industries transparency initiative requirements
- Dirty Metals
- Mining, Communities, and the Environment
- Tarnished Legacy
- A Social and Environmental Analysis of Mali's Syama Goldmine
- Investing in Destruction: Glamis Gold
- Poverty Reduction or Poverty Exacerbation?
- World Bank Group Support for Extractive Industries in Africa
- Digging to Development?
- A Historical Look at Mining and Economic Development
- Extractive Sectors and the Poor
- A Proposed Mine in Tambogrande, Peru: An Alternative Look
- Watching the watchdogs
- Evaluating independent expert panels that monitor large-scale oil and gas pipeline projects
- Protect Community Rights and Resources Fact Sheet
- Over 60 percent of the world's poorest people live in countries rich in natural resources—but they rarely share in the wealth. Too often, poor communities have no say in the extraction of resources from their land and receive little information about these projects.
- What are big oil companies hiding?
- A representative of a prominent human rights and environmental organization in Ghana calls on the American Petroleum Institute to drop its court case to block the payment transparency provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act.
- Guatemala: Heart of our Mother Earth
- Indigenous Maya people in western Guatemala are calling on the government to suspend operations at the Marlin Mine, and investigate violent human rights violations and environmental damage.
- Spirit of the Forest - Oxfam on the ground in Cambodia
- In Cambodia, Chanthy Dam is helping indigenous communities defend their rights— despite serious personal risks.
- The New Pornographers for Oxfam's Gulf Coast Program
- The New Pornographers and Oxfam collaborate to bring you their new video for the song "Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk," featuring local residents still reeling from the BP oil spill.
- Sabodala: Poverty in a land of gold
- In Senegal, a gold mine has displaced farmers from their fields, leaving hundreds without jobs or a decent way to make a living. Oxfam America's partner is helping farmers claim compensation and find alternative income sources.
- Victory for oil, mining affected communities
- Oxfam America thanks the 20,000 supporters who pushed Congress to pass US legislation requiring revenue transparency in the oil,gas, and mining industries.
- Oxfam America report launch: People, power, and pipelines
- In June, Oxfam launched People, power and pipelines. The report examines oil and mining development in Peru and the use of government revenues generated by the Camisea gas project.
- Oil and mining booms and sustainable development
- Lessons from Peru for development planning and revenue management at the national and subnational level.
- Big changes in the Amazon
- The Camisea Gas Project is bringing significant changes to the Urubamba region. Despite contributing millions to Peru's government, local leaders say the project has done little to change rates of poverty, illiteracy, and malnutrition.
- A new generation
- Meet Eneyda, a young Machiguenga woman navigating the confusing waters connecting her remote indigenous community, and the environmental threats and economic opportunities presented by the Camisea gas project.
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