Sentences with phrase «global witness works»

It is a paradox common to many of the countries Global Witness works in that they are rich in the resources that feed consumption in the rich world, but the majority of their people remain poor.

Not exact matches

And we will continue to work with our international partners to counter the ongoing threat of global terrorism, most recently witnessed in the atrocities in Pakistan.

After a momentous auction, Jussi Pylkkänen, Global President, Christie's, remarked: «This evening we witnessed a record total for any Asian Art sale, and a spectacular success for a great museum through the sale of major Chinese works of art and paintings.»

The Basquiat works offered during our 20th Century sales were assembled by Depp over the course of more than 25 years, and date almost exclusively from 1981 — the year that witnessed Basquiat's transformation from clandestine street artist to global superstar.

Global Witness's work has focused on the corruption that allowed the Kyrgyz economy to fall into the hands of a few powerful individuals, with the help of a network of international shell companies.

Recent work by Global Witness and the UN Group of Experts revealed that all of the main armed groups involved in the current fighting in eastern DRC finance themselves through the trade in high - value minerals.

Global Witness was co-nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for its leading work on conflict diamonds and awarded the 2007 Commitment to Development Ideas in Action Award, sponsored jointly by Washington DC based Center for Global Development and Foreign Policy magazine.

This historic move follows work by Global Witness, Kachin Development Networking Group (KDNG), the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and other Kachin State and Myanmar civil society actors and parliamentarians to expose widespread abuses at the heart of a vast, deeply corrupt trade.

Editor's notes: (1) Global Witness focuses on the role of natural resources in funding conflict and corruption and was nominated last week for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for its work on conflict diamonds.

[5] «This represents a major breakthrough for all those working to halt the predatory exploitation of Burma's forests,» said Mike Davis of Global Witness.

For more information on Liberia, see other Global Witness reports and briefing documents, available at www.globalwitness.org (3) «Logging Off» September 2002, Page 11, Taylor made — The Pivotal role of Liberia's Forests in Regional Conflict», September 2001, Page 15 (4) For more information on Global Witness's work on Liberia see: «An Architecture of Instability: How the critical link between natural resources and conflict remains unbroken.

Global Witness awarded funding from People's Postcode Lottery to support vital work preserving one of the world's last major rainforests in Papua New Guinea

Global Witness found that ex-CNDP fighters now in charge of the 212th national army brigade are pocketing tens of thousands of dollars per month from illegal taxes imposed on civilians working in and around Bisie, eastern Congo's largest cassiterite (tin ore) mine.

Deloitte contacted Global Witness on 25 November, but was unable to provide any details of their work to date in rectifying the situation.

«The son - in - law of the Angolan president, a private businessman, should not be working so closely with the state company which is responsible for managing Angola's oil on behalf of its citizens,» said Diarmid O'Sullivan of Global Witness.

«With the theft of their land, or environmental damage caused by industries like mining, agribusiness, or logging, it's harder for women to grow food or access clean water, and the work that they're already expected to do to support their families and communities increases,» said Global Witness» Alice Harrison in a recent interview with The Ecologist.

Global Witness is concerned that Schwarzenegger's investments in DFA conflict with his high profile work in tackling climate change and deforestation, which include spearheading California's efforts in this area through the «Governor's Climate & Forests Task Force».

In the assessment Global Witness gives a clear warning to the negotiators working on a forests and climate deal in Bonn this week.

As someone who has been working in and around these international climate talks and other such global negotiations for many years now, I have witnessed first hand Canada's fall from grace.

Global Witness was co-nominated with Partnership Africa Canada for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for its leading work on conflict diamonds and awarded the Gleitsman Foundation prize for international activism in May 2005.

Patrick has worked on Global Witness's campaigns on conflict resources, notably former Liberian President Charles Taylor's «arms for timber» trade, the minerals trade in Eastern DRC and more recently the Central African Republic, as well as providing strategic direction for Global Witness's work on forest issues, especially challenging industrial scale logging and land grabbing in the tropics.

The Board's constituencies self - selected two representatives each to the working group, as follows: partner countries (Papua New Guinea and Viet Nam); donors (Japan and Norway); UN Agencies (FAO and UNEP); Civil Society organizations (CAMV and Global Witness); and Indigenous Peoples (AMAN and UNPFII).

Subsequently, Charmian developed and launched Global Witness's ground - breaking campaign to combat «blood diamonds»; Global Witness was nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize as a result of this work.

Prize staff is working with Global Witness and other partners to demand that the Honduran government conduct a full investigation into the killing, take immediate measures to ensure the safety of the Cáceres family, and grant protection for activists in Honduras.

This global policy push, coupled with inexorable technological progress (witness the latest record - breaking solar cells and the blistering pace of improvements in energy storage technology), is working.

Global Witness has worked with anti-corruption forest watchdog groups in Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia to assess compliance with their respective VPAs.

Global Witness is calling on the Honduran state to crack down on an online smear campaign against groups working to protect land and environmental defenders in Honduras

People's Postcode Lottery has today announced that players have awarded Global Witness # 250,000 to support the delivery of its work seeking to preserve and protect one of the world's last major rainforests in Papua New Guinea.

Investors who want to capitalize on the hard work Ripple is dedicating to their global settlement network are likely to witness a steady increase in value over the long term by simply holding XRP.

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