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News Archive 2006

10 Jan 2006 "Flagship or Failure: The UK's implementation of the OECD Guidelines and approach to corporate accountability" Web link

12 Jan 2006 RAID and The Corner House: Response to the Stakeholder Consultation concerning the UK government's implementation of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises Paper

31 Jan 2006 RAID amd BIC: "World Bank Buries Internal Report on Controversial Congo Mining Project" Press release

2 Feb 2006 World Bank Compliance Advisor Ombudsman Releases Audit on MIGA's Due Diligence Web link

3 Feb 2006 RAID and others: "World Bank Insurance Arm Fails to Protect Local Communities, Audit Finds: Bank's compliance office reveals due diligence failures in DR Congo mining project" Press release

10 Feb 2006 RAID and others: comments on the OECD's draft Policy Framework for Investment Web link

20 Feb 2006 RAID: comments on the OECD's draft Policy Framework for Investment Paper

21 Feb 2006 RAID and others: "DR Congo: End illegal exploitation of natural resources; Government must act on Parliamentary Commission's recommendations" Press release

27 Feb 2006 RAID: "Group Calls on World Bank to Investigate Mining Contracts; Bank's Failed Reform Project in DR Congo" Press release

2 Mar 2006 The Confidentiality Principle, Transparency and the Specific Instance Procedure Paper

10 Mar 2006 OECD Watch Newsletter, March 2006

Web link
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5 Apr 2006 UK Stakeholder Consultation Update: The UK National Contact Point's promotion and implementation of the OECD& Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises Paper

11 Apr 2006 RAID's letter to World Bank President Wolfowitz, responding to the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman's audit of MIGA's due diligence for Anvil Mining's Dikulushi project Letter

19 Apr 2006 MIGA's response to RAID's letter of 11 April responding to the World Bank's Compliance Advisor Ombudsman's audit of Anvil Mining's Dikulushi project in the DR Congo Letter

18 May 2006 Joint NGO response to Special Representative John Ruggie's interim report on business and human rights Letter

2 Jun 2006 Letter to World Bank VP for Africa concerning the DR Congo's Mining Sector; Mining Contracts Letter

12 Jun 2006

OECD Investment Committee: "Risk Awareness Tool" for companies investing in weak governance zones

Web link

22 Jun 2006

OECD Watch: Newsletter, June 2006, including "Five Years On: A review of the OECD Guidelines and National Contact Points"

Web link
(English)

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(español)


23 Jun 2006 New Resource for NGOs: "Guide to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises Complaint Procedure: Lessons from past NGO complaints" Guide

5 Jul
2006
Global Witness report: Digging in Corruption: Fraud, abuse and exploitation in Katanga's copper and cobalt mines Web link

13 Jul 2006 Major Breakthrough: UK Government adopts significant reforms on the promotion and implementation of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises DTI: response to Stakeholder Consultation

Related documents

Press Release: "Boost for Responsible Business Overseas", by the Rt Hon Ian McCartney, Minister of State for Trade, Investment and Foreign Affairs

Written Ministerial Statement, by the Rt Hon Ian McCartney

Joint Working Group: Statement on the OECD Guidelines Process

DTI: web page on the Stakeholder Consultation


27 Jul 2006 MIGA's response to RAID's letter of 11 April responding to the World Bank's Compliance Advisor Ombudsman's audit of Anvil Mining's Dikulushi project in the DR Congo Letter

18 Aug 2006 OECD Watch Briefing Paper: "The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Promotion of the guidelines and the role of National Contact Points in handling specific instances Paper

10 Sep 2006

RAID calls for investigation of war crimes
(Sunday Times)

Web Link

21 Sep 2006

Update: Significant gains in RAID's campaign for renegotiation of mining contracts in the DR Congo

Update

15 Oct 2006 RAID: "Congolese Military Judge Calls for the Prosecution of Former Anvil Mining Staff for Complicity in War Crimes"

Press release

Web link


26 Oct 2006 RAID and others: "Military Prosecutor in Kilwa Trial Recalled to Kinshasa: Political Pressure Intensifies After Former Anvil Mining Staff and Congolese Military Charged with Commission of or Complicity in War Crimes"

Urgent appeal (English)

(français)


31 Oct 2006 RAID: letter to Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter MacKay, concerning Carlos Zorrilla of Defensa y Conservacion Ecologica de Intag (DECOIN). Carlos has become the subject of a campaign of intimidation apparently in connection with his work to protect the rights of local communities in Ecuador. Letter

Related documents

Carlos' report: "The Police Raid on My House"

Ecumenical Human Rights Commission (CEDHU): "US Citizen Linked to a Transnational Mining Company, Ascendant Copper Corporation, Infiltrated a Demonstration and Brought False Accusations against Intag Leader"

Ascendant Copper Corporation: response to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Update: On November 16, 2006, the arrest warrant issued against Carlos Zorrilla was revoked. However, the trumped-up charges against him still stand, and the attacks against DECOIN and the communities of the Intag region continue

 

Report

Press release




Document

Web link


12 Nov 2006 Associated Press: "New Congo government must bring order to chaotic mining sector" Web Link

21 Nov 2006 OEDC Watch: "Guide to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises' Complaint Procedure: Lessons from past NGO complaints"
(Version 2)
Guide

4 Dec 2006 RAID: "Inauguration of Congo's New President: Prospects for mining sector reform" Press release

12 Dec 2006 RAID and others: "Trial begins for Congolese military and Anvil Mining ex employees accused of crimes related to the October 2004 Kilwa massacre" Press release

15 Dec 2006 Legal update on Kilwa trial: court calls for an adjournment before giving its view on objections raised by the lawyers representing Anvil Mining and its three ex employees; next hearing set for 27 December 2006

Legal Update No. 1
(English)

(français)

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18 Dec 2006 Corner House and Campaign Against Arms Trade mount a legal challenge to the decision by the UK's Serious Fraud Office to drop its investigation into BAE's Al Yamamah deal Web link

     
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