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More money in remittances is sent back than Somalia receives in humanitarian assistance, development assistance and foreign direct investment combined. Somalis based in the US send approximately $214 million each year back to their families in Somalia, nearly the same amount the US sends in foreign assistance to Somalia ($242 million). Remittances allow individuals and families to spend money based on their specific needs and immediate priorities.
"Somali-Americans want to be able to send resources to their extended families abroad," said Representative Ellison. "Remittances are estimated to make up approximately one third of Somalia's economy, and give many Somali families the ability to put food on the table. The Money Remittances Improvement Act of 2013 will provide financial institutions greater certainty when working with Money Services Businesses and reduce the regulatory burden for these businesses. We cannot solve all of the problems Somali-Americans face sending money home overnight, but we can simplify the process for both businesses and families."
"Regulators and banks are pointing fingers at one another while the Somali remittance system teeters on the brink," said Scott Paul, senior humanitarian policy advisor at Oxfam America. "What is needed is a concerted and collaborative effort to make sure Somalis can safely and freely support their families back home. Somalia's development and recovery hang in the balance."
To many banks, the fear of running afoul of US Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism requirements has led them to take the relatively easy step of shuttering the accounts of money transfer operators, irrespective of their compliance with US law. Without providing any specific reasons or justifications, banks have been closing the accounts of Somali-American money transfer operators at nearly twice the rate of their Latin American counterparts.
"The Somali community in the US is being pushed to the brink," said Dr. Manuel Orozco, director of remittances and development at the Inter-American Dialogue and lead author of the report. "A complete shutdown of the formal remittance system can occur if closures continue. Account closures have already endangered the lives and livelihoods of Somalis. If the MTO system shuts down, remittances will not only be reduced, they may also go underground – dramatically reducing the transparency and security of the system. Paradoxically it could become a serious national security problem for the United States."
Remittances to Somalia amount to approximately $1.3 billion a year, of which 20% comes from the US. The money is a lifeline for many Somalis, providing them with a means to meet their immediate needs for food, shelter, clothing, and other basic necessities as well as open and sustain small businesses, send children to school, and invest in their communities. Remittances to women, in particular, result in investments in education, health, and nutrition.
"More than half the recipients of remittances are women," said Degan Ali, executive director at Adeso. "These are teachers and business owners. The money they receive can account for more than half of their income."
Somali money transfer operators also play a critical role in cash relief programs, which Adeso, Oxfam, the United Nations, the US Administration for International Development and other humanitarian agencies used to help Somalis buy food and other basic necessities during the 2011 famine.
"These companies don't just connect Somalis to their relatives; they connect Somalis with humanitarian agencies like ours so we can provide life-saving assistance," Ali added.
Note: The report is available in its entirety at http://www.oxfamamerica.org/publications/keeping-the-lifeline-open-remittances-and-markets-in-somalia
Oxfam America is a global organization working to right the wrongs of poverty, hunger, and injustice. As one of 17 members of the international Oxfam confederation, we work with people in more than 90 countries to create lasting solutions. Oxfam saves lives, develops long-term solutions to poverty, and campaigns for social change.
Adeso is an African-founded and led humanitarian and development organization that is changing the way people think about and deliver aid in Africa. We believe that development must come from within, not outside African communities and that it is Africans themselves who must determine their own futures. We work to prevent, manage, and overcome situations that threaten the environmental, social and financial wellbeing of African communities. With this approach, we believe that we can build on the foundations of our great continent and help take Africa forward.
The Inter-American Dialogue is the leading U.S. center for policy analysis, exchange, and communication on issues in Western Hemisphere affairs. It seeks to build cooperation among nations and advance an agenda of democratic governance, social equity, and economic growth.
]]>"Oxfam is deeply disappointed in the decision of the House and Senate intelligence committees to approve weapons shipments to Syria, allowing the Obama administration to move ahead with its program to arm the opposition.
"The Syrian conflict is the world's largest humanitarian crisis. More than 100,000 people have been killed and 8 million people across the region-many of them children-require humanitarian assistance. Sending more weapons to either side will only exacerbate the conflict and prolong the humanitarian catastrophe.
"The United Nations has reported that both sides of the conflict have committed violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. The US government and others, therefore, have a clear obligation not to send weapons to either side as these abuses continue.
"What's needed in Syria is political solutions to bring the conflict and suffering to an end. The United States and other countries, especially Russia, need to bring the parties to the negotiating table to end the bloodshed. Sending more weapons is not the solution."
]]>Boldin's testimony reflected what he witnessed on an Oxfam America trip to Senegal in March with fellow NFL wide-receivers Larry Fitzgerald and Roddy White. Boldin was joined at the hearing by Ghanaian energy expert Mohammed Amin Adam, the Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy.
"During my visits to Africa I promised the people I've met that I would do everything I can to bring their stories back to the US," said Boldin in his testimony. "Today, I call on the Congress to support measures to strengthen human rights protections for communities impacted by the in the oil and mining industries in Africa."
Boldin's trip included a visit to the small village of Sabodala in eastern Senegal, where farmers struggle to feed their families despite the riches of gold found in their soil. When the mining company moved in, many lost access to the agricultural land that sustained their families for generation with little or compensation. Many are now forced to pan for gold just to feed their families. While the nearby mining operation uses the latest extractive technologies, the villagers use their bare hands to separate specks of gold from sand with toxic mercury. With luck, they may find a small nugget. But mostly it's nothing more than specks of dust.
"When the land they farmed was sold out from under them to a large mining company, the community, which had been farming the same land for generations, suddenly had nothing," said Boldin. "Meanwhile, the community that lost its land sees little benefit from the enormous mine in what was once their backyard. No percentage of the revenue from the mine, which is bigger than several football stadiums and brings in untold revenues, ever makes its way back to the community."
Africa's oil, gas and mineral exports amount to more than $300 billion dollars a year, but instead of building roads, schools and hospitals for Africa's people, this money often leads to more poverty and inequality. To the millions of people living near oil and mining sites—many who struggle to survive on less than $2 a day—the resource curse doesn't mean a share of the wealth, but instead environmental damage, loss of land, and human rights abuses. Given the enormity of the problem, Senegal and other West African countries are considering adopting a regional mining code that would strengthen protections for the human rights of people in mining-affected communities like Sabodala.
"I told the people of Sabodala that I would bring their stories back to the US," said Boldin. "I believe the US Congress should call on Senegal's president Macky Sall to take action to improve the conditions of mining-affected communities in eastern Senegal. He should ensure that mining companies respect human rights, that mining revenue is managed in a transparent way, and that communities receive adequate compensation and have a meaningful voice in decision-making about where mining takes place."
"As a professional athlete, I believe strongly in fair play," said Boldin. "I believe that the US Congress can play an important role in helping ensure fair play for Africans and that the money produced by the gold, oil and other resources that come out of Africa's ground are used to help all Africans prosper."
Boldin's call to action was echoed by Adam, who testified about the transparency challenges facing Ghana, a country where oil has recently been discovered.
"Resource rich countries such as oil and mineral producing countries have often been challenged by how to transform their riches to broad-based democratic development, said Adam. "These countries often see their people live in abject poverty, plagued by conflicts, ignorance, illiteracy and disease in spite of their resource wealth."
Like Boldin, Adam called on the US Congress to support transparency efforts in extractives industries in West Africa and beyond to fight the resource curse.
"The United States must use its strength to protect these values everywhere in the world including resource rich countries whose citizens are suffering from the effects of naked exploitation by foreign companies with the connivance of their collaborating governments," said Adam. "The need to implement the extractive industry payment disclosure provisions in the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform Act is long over-due. In particular, the US support for the implementation of an ECOWAS Directive on Mining that includes transparency safeguards and protection of free, prior and informed consent for communities impacted by these projects is important."
]]>The poll was conducted by the American Values Network and PrimeGroup on behalf of Oxfam America, and was released at an event at the National Press Club today as part of Oxfam's Voices on US Poverty initiative, which seeks to spark a national conversation about poverty.
"America's poverty rate is now at its highest level in two generations, and many Americans are in jobs that do not pay a living wage," said Raymond C. Offenhesier, president of Oxfam America. "Although poverty may look different in sub-Saharan Africa from what it looks like in the US, poverty everywhere is about power, not scarcity. It is the result of imbalances in power that privilege some and marginalize others. The time to enact policies that help poor Americans lift themselves out of poverty is now, and a majority of voters agree."
Participants at the Voices on US Poverty event at the National Press Club included Maj. Gen. George A. Buskirk (Ret.), Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of NETWORK; Ai-Jen Poo, director of National Domestic Workers Alliance; and Sarah Burd-Sharps, co-director of the Measure of America project of the Social Science Research Council. The event was moderated by Timothy Noah, author of The Great Divergence. Panelists advocated for new pro-poor policies and against federal budget cuts that will only make life more precarious for those in poverty.
"In the same way we need to reshape our military and put our troops first, we need to reshape our economic priorities to reward work over wealth and give struggling families the support they need," said Maj. Gen. George A. Buskirk (Ret.) at the event. "We must adjust our federal budget to help restore the greatness of our values, our innovation, and our people."
"We must begin to create the kinds of policies that growing numbers of working people need in order to be able to provide for their families," said Ai-Jen Poo, director of National Domestic Workers Alliance at the event. "It's time for us to re-establish a basic floor of protections for working people, including domestic workers. And we need to make sure that the working poor have on-ramps to improving their lives: opportunities like workforce training and job development."
Results from the public opinion survey include the following:
"Transparency is the lowest hanging fruit on the aid reform tree," said Gregory Adams, Oxfam America's director of aid effectiveness. "While the US government has this data, and American taxpayers and people in poor countries need it, President Obama has yet to release it. This legislation will hold the Administration's feet to the fire, so that they follow through on the President's promise to open the books on US foreign aid."
Under current law, it is too hard for American taxpayers and people in recipient countries to see where aid dollars are going and how well they are being spent. Global poverty is a challenge to America's national interest and values; yet the US government is only one piece of the puzzle. Greater transparency and accountability for results helps people in developing countries do more to lead their own development, and use US help more effectively to solve poverty challenges.
"The Obama Administration and USAID under Raj Shah have been leaders in making aid more transparent and accountable," said Adams. "The Administration's Foreign Assistance Dashboard, for example, is a real breakthrough for transparency; likewise, USAID's cutting-edge Monitoring & Evaluation policy promises to make US aid dollars deliver better results. But promises of real numbers in other agencies have not been delivered on."
US aid efforts are Balkanized across at least 22 different agencies, and while some US government agencies, like the MCC and USAID, have been taking bold steps to make aid more effective and accountable, shockingly little data is currently available. Agencies like the State Department and Pentagon rank 46th and 56th on the leading international ranking of donor transparency, leaving huge information gaps that breed confusion and distrust.
"In these times of fiscal constraints, we must ensure that every cent of taxpayer dollars spent on foreign aid is delivering results in the fight against global poverty," continued Adams. "Publicly available public information on how taxpayer dollars are being spent is key to making sure American generosity leads to real results for America and the world's poor."
The bill as written would rightly ensure that all US foreign assistance is evaluated for how well it serves its purpose. Oxfam feels that efforts to exempt any particular category of assistance from monitoring and evaluation will make that assistance less accountable to American taxpayers and recipient countries. Oxfam urges Congress to protect the principle that this bill applies to all foreign assistance, regardless of source or purpose.
"It took great bipartisan effort to move this bill forward and we hope it sets a constructive precedent for further reform," said Adams. "When people in developing countries know what the US is doing in their communities, they can take action themselves to amplify the results. And when the US government has better information and tools for measuring the impact of our programs, we can help make sure they are delivering better results for America and our partners."
]]>"Oxfam is disappointed that the Court did not side with transparency today, and we strongly disagree with its finding that the SEC had discretion to withhold companies' payment reports from the public," said Ian Gary, Oxfam America's senior policy manager of Oxfam America's oil, gas and mining program. "However, we believe the SEC will be able to ultimately reissue the rules in the same form, with a stronger justification that satisfies the court's requirements."
Also known as Section 1504, the law requires oil, gas and mining companies to disclose payments, such as taxes, they pay to foreign governments for the extraction of oil and minerals. The SEC conducted a robust and lengthy input process, thoroughly addressing public comments and analyzing the economic consequences of the final rules.
According to Oxfam, nothing in today's decision says that the SEC may not require public reporting or deny exemptions; the ruling just says that the SEC has greater discretion under the law than it previously believed, and that it must therefore provide a fuller analysis of its choices.
"We disagree with the Court's view that the SEC did not adequately justify its rejection of the oil industry's request for exemptions based on foreign laws," said Gary. "Despite the Court's conclusions, the SEC balanced the potential costs and benefits of granting exemptions. The SEC's decision that exemptions weren't warranted is adequately supported by its analysis. The oil industry has never been able to clearly show the existence of host country prohibitions against payment disclosure."
The American Petroleum Institute, a lobby group representing companies such as BP, Exxon, Chevron and Shell, was joined by the US Chamber of Commerce to file the lawsuit against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to overturn the law, which seeks to provide valuable information to investors and help prevent corrupt government officials from squandering oil and minerals wealth in resource-rich countries. In addition to challenging the process by which the SEC enacted the rule, these business groups also claim that Cardin-Lugar and the transparency rules violate their First Amendment free speech rights.
While the US litigation has proceeded, additional oil payment disclosures or commitments have come into place. The European Union earlier this month passed into law a payment disclosure requirement for oil, gas, mining and forestry companies. The law, covering companies such as Chevron, Shell, BP and Total, has parallel disclosure requirements to the SEC's rules, including project-level disclosures, public reporting and no exemptions for alleged host country prohibitions.
"The global transparency train has left the station and the US disclosure law still stands. The Court did not make any ruling on the oil industry's First Amendment argument, while recognizing that the Supreme Court has upheld public disclosure requirements as an appropriate approach to regulation," continued Gary. "The fight to lift the veil of secrecy on billions of dollars is not over, and we are considering all of our legal options – including appeal of this decision – in order to ensure that investors and citizens have access to the information required by this groundbreaking provision."
]]>With the President and First Lady Michelle Obama scheduled to travel to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania over the next few days, the time is now to address the continent's continued economic development, said Raymond C. Offenheiser, President of Oxfam America.
"President Obama got it right in Accra in 2009 when he said Africa's future lies with Africa's institutions. Now it's time for the President to help Africa realize its full potential by investing directly in local governments and citizens, helping to increase transparency of budgets, extractive industry revenues, and tax systems for governments," said Offenheiser.
Over the next decade, more than $1 trillion in natural resources will be extracted from the African continent. Currently, Africa exports more than $300 billion a year in oil, gas and mineral exports—more than four times the amount of aid the continent receives. But that money is not building roads, schools and hospitals for Africa's people. In fact, booming extractives industries often lead to more poverty and powerlessness. The people of Kedougou, Senegal, for instance, live atop a large scale gold-mining operation. But despite the riches found in their soil, none of it has been returned to their community. Many have lost access to the agricultural land that sustained their families, and many others did not even receive adequate compensation when they were forced off their lands without consultation.
Millions of people living near oil and mining sites, like those in Kedougou, struggle to survive on less than $2 a day. Instead of opportunity, this resource curse delivers environmental damage, loss of land and human rights abuses.
"I urge President Obama to shine a bright light on the current lack of transparency and accountability that perpetuates cycles of poverty and inequality in developing African nations," said Offenheiser. "Tell your African counterparts to work to increase transparency in their budgets. Open payments from oil and mining companies to the light of transparency. Give African citizens knowledge about revenues from oil and mining companies. Let those citizens decide how to put their money to work for their own futures—let them claim their rights and fight for their own development."
It's time to lead by example, continued Offenheiser.
"President Obama should publicly announce when his own administration will release U.S. government aid data, setting a tone on institutional transparency. As one of the largest aid donors in the world, the United States shouldn't be one of the least transparent."
Souleymane Zeba, West Africa Regional Director of Oxfam, added, "The resources generated by extractives industries should be helping local communities build resilience against climate and food security shocks, particularly in the Sahel where recurrent food crises are epidemic."
Offenheiser sees even greater potential for agriculture in Africa, with the right investments.
"The President's Feed the Future Initiative recognizes the central role that agriculture can play in driving economic growth and poverty reduction, but initiatives like the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, which promote private sector investment in select African countries, must not distract from badly needed development aid to this critical sector," said Offenheiser. "The President must address legitimate concerns raised by civil society organizations about this initiative."
In South Africa, Oxfam urges President Obama's continued support for community-led accountability mechanisms.
"President Obama's support for our HIV/AIDS response has been immensely important for South Africa's continued efforts to realize the ambitions of a democratic, people-centered South Africa," said Allan Moolman, Oxfam's Country Director in South Africa.
]]>The meeting of the two leaders comes at a critical time. At least 93,000 Syrians have already lost their lives in the conflict. Some eight million Syrians are in need of aid and over 1.6 million have fled to neighbouring countries, triggering the largest appeal for humanitarian assistance in UN history.
The United States and Russia have expressed their support for a political process to put an end to the conflict but the Geneva peace conference announced by both countries in early May is yet to be scheduled.
"The leaders of the G8 countries are at a fork in the road. Instead of fanning the flames of the conflict by sending more weapons into Syria, the leaders should prioritize the pursuit of a political solution. The transfer of all arms and ammunition to Syria - whether to opposition forces or the government - must be immediately stopped," said Raymond C. Offenheiser, President of Oxfam America.
"The Syria crisis is the biggest humanitarian emergency in the world. The fighting has taken a devastating toll on Syrian people. The promised Geneva peace conference offers an important glimmer of hope on the diplomatic horizon to end the suffering. We cannot let it slip away. Millions of Syrians have been failed for too long by a divided international community."
The international aid community is struggling to keep up with the humanitarian consequences of the conflict with the current UN appeals just 28 percent funded. Oxfam is calling on Presidents Obama and Putin to also help improve humanitarian access by using their influence on the Syrian Government and opposition groups to ensure aid reaches those most in need.
"Aid organizations are already struggling to cope with the huge demand but there are millions more people out of reach. Further intervention from Presidents Obama and Putin will help ensure that all those affected by the crisis can get the aid they so desperately need," said Offenheiser.
While Presidents Obama and Putin have pledged to ensure full participation at the peace conference from all sides of the conflict, Oxfam is calling for representatives of the refugee community, women's groups, and other non-military, independent civil society voices to be also included.
Oxfam is working in Syria through local organizations and working in Lebanon and Jordan helping Syrian refugees. It is aiming to help 650,000 people in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria in the next 12 months.
]]>Today's European Parliament vote follows a political agreement reached between the European Parliament, EU Member States and the European Commission in April after months of negotiations to include the payment disclosure provisions in revised Transparency and Accounting Directives.
"The transparency net has been cast even wider today, covering the vast majority of internationally operating oil companies and world's largest mining companies," said Ian Gary, senior policy manager of Oxfam America's oil, gas and mining program. "This is a huge victory for citizens living in resource rich countries as well as investors who have a right know this information. We applaud Europe's leaders and Members of the European Parliament for not caving under oil industry lobbying efforts to water down the rules."
Similar to the bipartisan "Cardin-Lugar" provision or Section 1504 of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, the European directives require both public and large privately-held companies to disclose their payments. In addition, the requirements extend to the logging industry. As in the US, companies will be required to disclose payments, such as taxes and royalties, above 100,000 Euros for individual projects ($100,000 in the US) in every country of operation. The vote further undermines oil company arguments in US courts against the US disclosure provision.
The vote comes on the eve of the G8 Summit June 17-18 hosted by the United Kingdom, where transparency in the "extractive industries" is a major plank of the host government's agenda. The UK and French governments have been strong backers of the EU oil and mining disclosure provisions and have pledged to quickly enact the requirement in their national contexts. Member states have two years to incorporate the directives into their national legal frameworks.
"While the world is moving toward greater transparency, the oil industry seems determined to keep their heads in the sand, and fight against it as long as possible," continued Gary.
In the US ,the American Petroleum Institute (API), an industry lobby group, filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last October in an attempt to overturn final rules promulgated by the regulatory agency last August. Oxfam has intervened in the lawsuit on the side of the SEC. The US Court of Appeals dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction in April and the case is now being heard in the District Court for the District of Columbia. Mining companies and their industry associations have not joined the oil industry lawsuit in the US and Norwegian oil giant and API member Statoil has explicitly withheld support for the suit.
Companies have alleged that they may be forced to violate local laws or abandon assets in countries that allegedly prohibit disclosure of these payments. As in the US, EU regulators and political leaders were not convinced of the existence of any host country prohibitions against disclosing this payment information. The EU directive and final SEC rule do not allow for any categorical exemptions to the payment disclosure requirements.
"Mandatory disclosures of oil, gas and mining payments to governments are now a global fact and industry giants such as Exxon, Chevron, BP and Shell need to drop their misguided support for this litigation," said Gary. "Now that the European Parliament has given final approval to payment disclosure rules, oil industry leaders should drop their support for this meritless attempt to stem the transparency tide."
With the US and EU laws in place, a global standard for mandatory oil, gas and mining payment disclosure has emerged. These laws cover 65 per cent of the value of the global extractives market, including most major internationally operating oil, gas and mining companies, as well as significant Chinese, Russian, Brazilian and other state-owned companies. These laws also complement the industry-backed Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a voluntary initiative whose standards were revised this May to require project reporting that is consistent with the US and EU reporting regimes. Canada, Australia and other jurisdictions are considering adopting similar mandatory transparency requirements for their capital markets.
]]>"We are witnessing the daily human wreckage of a country tearing itself apart. Our common humanity implores us to respond to the suffering of millions of Syrians caught up in an unremitting tragedy. Even in harsh economic times there can be no excuses for governments to shirk from their duty to dig deep and generously fund the aid effort. They cannot look the other way. This is the world's most pressing humanitarian crisis. The scale is staggering and getting worse. Syria's people have suffered enough, they cannot be allowed to pay the price of the world's failure to match their need," said Jane Cocking, Humanitarian Director, Oxfam.
Oxfam is working in Syria through local organizations and working in Lebanon and Jordan helping Syrian refugees. The organization has so far helped some 60,000 Syrians and has plans to help 650,000. Oxfam's global fundraising goal for this work is $53 million but so far, only $16million has been raised. Click here to support Oxfam's work to help Syrians in crisis.
While the United States was not among the first 60 countries to sign the treaty, US Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement that he welcomed the opening of the treaty for signature and looked forward to signing once the official translations of the text are completed satisfactorily.
In response, Raymond C. Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America, issued the following statement.
"This is a historic moment. For the first time in history, there is an arms trade treaty to regulate the global arms trade.
"The bloodshed caused by armed violence in countries like Syria and South Sudan has gone on too long. While we are disappointed that the United States is not among the first signatories, we are confident the US will sign the treaty as expeditiously as possible.
"The United States played a key role during the negotiations and deserves a lot of credit for its leadership on crafting a treaty that will help save millions of lives in the future. We know President Obama understands the importance of a swift US signature.
"As a humanitarian organization, we've seen firsthand the impact of the global arms trade on innocent men, women and children in places like Syria and South Sudan. The time is now for the United States to sign this treaty as swiftly as possible to stop dangerous weapons from reaching violent extremists and human rights abusers. There is no time left to wait."
]]>US-based Newmont Mining, Canadian miner Eurasian Minerals and various other mining companies are pursuing an estimated $20 billion worth of gold and other minerals in the country's northern mountains.
In a country where people live on less than $2 a day, Haiti's Prime Minister Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe should ensure that Haiti's human and natural resources propel the country away from its current ranking as this hemisphere's poorest country.
"As the Haitian government moves forward to begin extracting the nation's natural resources, it should not be blinded by the promise of vast sums of money," said Yolette Etienne, Oxfam's Haiti associate country program director. "It must demand the highest human rights as well as environmental and transparency standards, which can help companies act responsibly."
While Haiti's government has a responsibility to ensure mineral revenues reach the people, mining companies eyeing Haiti's natural wealth should think how they can become a development partner that proactively and positively contributes meaningfully to economic development outcomes. For example, companies should think how they can strengthen rural agricultural livelihoods, enhancing food security and respecting the rights of women.
"Indeed, the mining industry should see Haiti as an opportunity to start the country on the right foot, and avoid the mistakes made in Peru, where violent protests have recently forces companies' to halt development of various projects," said Eitenne. "Natural resources can either help lift Haiti out of poverty or make things much worse. We all need to work together to ensure Haiti's mineral wealth become truly a blessing rather than a curse."
]]>Known as Section 1504 or Cardin-Lugar provision of the Dodd-Frank Act, the law requires oil, gas and mining companies to disclose payments they make to countries where they do business. While fighting this law in the US courts, these four companies sit on the global board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) – a set of voluntary principles under which governments publicly disclose their revenues from oil, gas and mining projects, and companies make parallel disclosures regarding payments they make to host governments for oil and mineral extraction.
The call to action comes as the EITI global conference kicks off in Sydney where representatives from civil society, oil, gas and mining companies and governments have gathered to discuss increasing transparency in extractive industries. The EITI board is launching a new standard that will require company and project-level reporting in line with Section 1504 as well as the recently agreed EU mandatory disclosure law. In addition to publicly held companies, which are also covered by the US law, the European directives will require large privately-held companies to disclose payments.
"From rural villagers in Africa to investors on Wall Street, the new EITI standard coupled with US and EU mandatory disclosure laws sends a strong signal to companies that the transparency train has left the station," said Ian Gary, senior policy manager of Oxfam America's oil, gas and mining program who is speaking at the global conference.
Momentum for increasing transparency in the extractive industries started over a decade ago with the "Publish What You Pay" campaign followed quickly by the establishment of the EITI. Now, 11 countries have implemented EITI with the United States being the first G8 country to commit to implementation as well as pass a mandatory disclosure law. Mandatory disclosure ensures that citizens in resource rich countries will have access to payment information even if their government has not volunteered to join EITI. Companies can "support" EITI without disclosing payments in every country of operation.
"Transparency in the oil, gas and mining industry is now a global norm," said Gary. "Oil companies should join citizens in resource-rich countries, investors, and energy consumers in supporting disclosure rather than seeking to turn back the tide through litigation and threaten global progress toward reducing corruption in resource-rich countries."
While mining companies have not fought implementation of the US rule, the oil industry, through API, is now pursuing its lawsuit in the US District Court after the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dismissed the case based on jurisdictional grounds. Oxfam will file a supplemental brief to rebut API's unsubstantiated arguments.
"Protection of the law is essential for investors to asses a company's risk and for communities in resource-rich countries to hold governments to account," said Gary. "This lawsuit is wholly incompatible with the industry's transparency commitments and support of payment disclosure through such initiatives as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. It is unacceptable that oil companies should receive reputation benefits by supporting a transparency initiative while at the same time fighting a landmark payment disclosure law in US courts. "
Additional Resources:
- VIDEO: Promote transparency: End the secret payments in oil and mining industries
]]>The report, No Accident: Resilience and the inequality of risk, shows that the millions of people experiencing poverty bear a disproportionate amount of the risk of disaster. Some 90 per cent of workers in least developed countries have no social security and 97 per cent of people on low incomes have no insurance cover making them highly vulnerable to disasters, food hikes and or illness – 100 million people fall into poverty just because they have to pay for health care. Women are particularly vulnerable because of their economic, political and social status.
The incidence of extreme weather-related events is increasing and more people are living in places that are susceptible to disasters. Since 1970 the number of people exposed to floods and cyclones has doubled.
"Inequality is driving up poor people's vulnerability. Vulnerability is not a random twist of fate. Risk is actively being dumped on to people. While rich countries reap the benefits of carbon-spewing economic growth, those in the world's poorer countries suffer the consequences. Aid can help soften the blow but if we are to tackle the injustice of this we have to deal with the inequality of power and politics that make people vulnerable. That means rich countries http://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/pressreleases/portal_factory/PressRelease/pressrelease.2013-05-21.4890964089/editreducing the risk of climate change, governments everywhere reducing inequalities and giving poor people a voice in decisions that affect their lives. It also means the aid world changing the way it does business and working more effectively at supporting people to cope better with crises," said Debbie Hillier, the report's author.
The report calls for a fundamental shift both in overcoming emergencies and reducing entrenched poverty. It calls on governments and aid agencies to ensure that efforts to boost economic growth are matched by efforts to manage risk and to reduce inequality – they must go hand in hand. National governments must ensure that their poorest citizens are protected in times of crisis and can access essential services like health and education, funded by more progressive taxation.
The aid world, including Oxfam, also needs to change and end the divide between short term humanitarian work and the long term development work. This will require both a transformation in working culture and much more flexible funding
The report also goes on to say that development work cannot be predominately targeted in largely stable environments. The world is shifting radically. By 2015, half of all people living with less than $1.25 a day will be in fragile states and conflicts, and millions more will face disasters from global economic or environmental changes that seem out of control.
Oxfam says that the aid world's new focus on 'resilience' – building poor people's ability to cope with crises – is far too much focused on technical fixes and needs to take into account the politics and power that make people vulnerable.


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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Holes is a great book if you want adventure but not if your in to fantasy of fiction or science fiction or This story follows a young boy, Stanley, who gets sent to a juvenile boys camp for stealing shoes. At this place each day he is to dig a hole the size of his shovel in order to build character as the warden puts it. However this is really because they are in search of lost treasure from a long long time ago. Throughout the story Stanley befriends many of the boys and even teaches one of them to read. Long ago an old curse was placed upon Stanley's family but they ended up solving the mystery when they climbed the mountain after running away. They ended up returning to the camp in the middle of the night and finding the lost treasure. The camp was exposed after Stanley was freed and all the boys were sent home. I remember loving this book as I was growing up and I was thrilled when the movie came out. I feel like the overall meaning of this book is that friendship is powerful and you can get through anything when you have friends, additionally two heads are better than one. When the boys worked together they solved the mystery and old stories of the camp, they were also able to depend on one another to read or learn how to dig a better hole. "This winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award features Stanley Yelnats, a kid who is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake: the warden is looking for something. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption." From amazon Well-written book about a group of misfit boys in a horrific situation and how they cope and survive. Great book for getting young boys to read. I think many school's have this as a required text. It is a page turner, I really enjoyed it.
Stanley Yelnats is a young man with some teenage problems like being overweight, poor, and social outcast. His father is an inventor and his mother is a loving and supporting woman. He believes that he and his family are cursed and that life offers nothing but a bad luck to them. Interesting fact about his name is that his last name is his first name spelled backward. His family blames his "no good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather" for a family misfortune. Because of the broken promise of the great-great-grandfather, a gypsy lady doomed his family with a bad luck. Numerous happenings led him to conclusion that something needs to be done to get rid of the bad luck. He often finds himself being at the wrong place at the wrong time. After being falsely accused of stealing a pair of snickers from a famous basketball player at an auction for homeless, Stanley picks a Green Lake Detention Camp for Boys to serve a sentence. There is nothing green nor lake like about that juvenile correction facility. The camp is run by The Warden and Mr. Sir. Those two are very brutal people who direct each kid to dig a hole each day under the blazing hot sun. The official purpose of hole digging is to build a character. A hidden purpose is to look for buried and lost treasure of outlaw, Kissing Katy Barlow. I see Stanley growing and changing into a leader throughout the book. He lifts himself and other around him. Teaming up with "Zero" brought many new and surprising events in his life. Together they succeeded in fighting against cruelty of Warden and her team. Many teenagers can relate to Stanley. There is a lot to learn in this book about hard work, loyalty, friendship, persistence, love, hard work and fate. Is contained in
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0439244196, Paperback)Stanley Yelnats is unjustly sent to Camp Green Lake where he and other boys are sentenced to dig holes to build character. Stanley learns the warden has them digging holes for something else- but what?(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:36:31 -0400) As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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This will be a dedicated 650w power supply for just the graphics cards, the rest of the system will be running off a second power supply. The power supply has two 12v rails, 30A each, with a 650w max combined on the two 12v rails.
Two GTX 260 video cards operating in SLI mode use a combined total of 380 watts and 32 amps at full load. So, 3 would be a tad higher, but the 650w you're referring to should be just fine, even if using the 275s
Should be no problem for the 260s. Is that a dedicated GPU PSU or a normal 650W PSU you will be using solely for the GFX? I think that with 3 275s you will be pushing it, as (IIRC) a fully loaded 275 pulls ~220w. Three of those would have a total amperage of just over 54A which is just at the limit of that PSU. EDIT Maybe I have over looked or failed to include the power drawn from the board in my figures Should be fine
Yep, F@H 24/7 will be the main use. I looked at W1z's power charts and it seems a GTX285 pulls ~220w maxed out, since some of the power will be provided by the board off the second power supply I should be fine right?
Very nice. Do you have a kill-a-watt meter? If you already have the PSU and want to avoid buying new hardware, load up the GPU's with F@H and check the power draw. Stay under 80% of the PSU rated power for 24/7 operation.
I do have a kill-a-watt, I could also use my 1000w UPS to measure the power draw, I've got the power supply, but not the cards. I kind of wanted to get some opinions on if the PSU can handle it before buying the cards. Of course, if it can't I can just run one of the cards off the other power supply.
I'm sorry I didn't clearly read everything you said when I replied LOL. And that LOL is on me. At least you get a nice little graphic of what the full power draw is of a 3-way SLI system with these types of cards.
Mike047 did just that with his Rosewill 650W PSU powering 3 GTX260's back when he was insanely folding
That PSU will be easily enough for the 260s (I'm assuming it's not some generic junk). I'm not familiar enough with the 275s to comment there.
My OCZ 600w would shit itself with a gtx 275 , hence the the need for my current psu. In my experience , you always need a bit more than you think you`re going to need (or I build very demanding rigs !!)
I've decided on this power suppply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153039 Max 12v combined is 56A, so really 672w. I've also got this power supply laying around: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153070 But the 80mm fan is sort of loud... I doubt that, my main rig with a GTX285 and a 9600GT hardly breaks 450w under load...
I might be losing it a bit here ... in that link I'm seeing a Thermaltake with 72 amps on the 12v, not an OCZ with 56. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153039)
I thikn Zithe was talking about francis511's OCZ. Though the quality of the PSU wouldn't really affect the amount of power used by the computer, even a crappy OCZ should be able to handle my main rig considering it only pulls 450w from the wall under load.
I apologize in advance if you already knew this, but I think its important to know- With multiple 12v rails (in 99.9% of PSUs) you do not add the amperage (18+18+18+18) to get total output. Usually there is a max wattage available for all 12v rails, divide that by 12 and there is your max amperage. The Thermaltake label is not very clear, but NT1 prob got the information from the manu website. Take for example my Antec TruePower New TP-750 (newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371022) has 4 25a 12v rails, its max combined Amperage on the 12v is not 100, its 62.
The newegg page and Thermaltake's page both list 56A as the max for the 12v lines on the PSU I posted, it just doesn't say it on the label. The VGA power supply I have maxes out at 54A across both rails, despite it listing 30A per rail.
I don't think so, you probably have other hardware in your system. To be safe I would go for a good 750W minimum. Do not go bellow 750W or you will have issues with stability and crashes IMO.
750W is still the safer bet when running SLI or Crossfire in 2 to 3 way IMO. But thanks for pointing that out to me.
Ahh, thanks—I did know that but when I didn't see a max listed on the PSU label, I figured there was no overall 12v cap. I thought they had to be on there so your post is much appreciated. By the way newtekie, if you want to avoid some finagling with 12v rails, I couldn't recommend the Corsair 750TX more highly. 4x 6+2pin PCIe connectors to boot. You've probably already considered it, but just to throw it out there. The good thing about multiple 12s is that usually there's some leeway and if they say the max per rail is 18a, you can usually still squeeze 20+ out of them safely (within the overall 12v cap) since they're almost never truly independent 12v rails, more often all split from one rail.


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Out with the start of the new year it's an opportunity to start new and a set of before your life.
On a new cap.
Other Robert -- Taylor have some suggestions he's written a book a new way to be human seven spiritual.
Pathways to becoming fully alive and Robert joins me now from Seattle welcome.
It's great to be with you Lauren thank you but it's great here and I want to -- you have.
You have -- a lot of -- you have -- -- I -- get -- but you know what is your overall all advice to people who were looking to change their lives for the better especially in the new year when it starts you have this feeling he wanted to start a new what's.
And the overall advice.
Well you know one.
The things that -- suggested in a piece that ran on foxnews.com.
A few weeks ago is.
Do something simple instead of making a complicated resolution that you're probably going to abandon choose a word to be your companion -- mantra for the year ahead.
And you know that word might be something like got compassion knowing -- -- creativity law of friends.
And use the word.
A word that we'll take you to the edge of your fears and perhaps enliven your life.
Com and use it every day put -- in some place it's visible think about it each day.
So that it really becomes your companion and noticed how it.
Begins to shift your engagement with yourself and with your colleagues at work and in your neighborhood in which a family and friends.
Now I've chosen the word ball -- W -- more for 2013.
And so I have begin and -- each day -- thinking about how I can -- new have.
How did agree to and be embraced by all in the day.
And then at the end of the day I I actually gave just a short reflection on what my experience of all has been and so.
I would recommend to to your list is the the simple practice time because it it's.
It's really out.
A spiritual practice that.
That takes you deep into the the seat -- you'll be the what it means to be the unique view and what compassion and love them.
And your purpose in life.
Are shaping up to mean in this year.
Yeah you know you've got a list of things and I wanna go through couple of them to sort of it.
You know expanded what you're talking about the -- let's choose to be a critique hitter -- participant rather than a victim what does that mean.
But just that rather than welcome.
Well you know I think so many of us have something that has happened -- -- life that.
Could easily allow us to to see ourselves as a victim to circumstances.
And it's not pretty to be a victim it's not life giving and it essentially gives power.
Two other people -- events to diminish you and so.
You become a bystander to your own life and so what I say to people is choose instead to be an active participant there is something.
In your unique story and in your voice that reveals ancient wisdom and that force you out more fully.
To be engaged with yourself in the world and for me one of the of the first times that I had a sense that this was 32 years ago I had.
And meeting with Desmond Tutu in South Africa it was my first one on one meeting with him and he said so Robert.
Tell me about -- life not what you've done but who you want no one had ever asked me that question.
So you know Lauren I began to telling the story of about you know lengthy hospitalizations.
As as a teenager that if that could have left me as a victim.
But instead I related.
Reading a book that changed my life.
And -- it revealed to me with that in my story.
And through this particular.
Case and reading a book that turned my life upside down -- chose to.
Embark on a path of being engaged.
With issues of freedom and the law of for every human being and so you know each of us has something in our life.
That allows us to be a participant in the fullness -- or -- in the goodness of life.
You talk about you know ask you also say and ask yourself each morning what will you give your heart to.
And you know because -- -- -- -- you know what he had because a lot of people are not going to be meeting Desmond -- I mean a lot of us would want to but we're not going to.
And we're also you know we're not going to be top athlete we're not -- be -- musician.
But that if you have a content and that's based on something greater than those things then you can certainly enjoy them -- -- So when you talk about ask yourself each morning what will you give your heart to.
Is an important those -- put would give your heart to you know an ultimate being like gone.
In order to really enjoy the things that are just every day.
Oh absolutely and down.
You know many of us express that in different ways no matter what -- religious tradition might be and and you know whether we're spiritual but not necessarily overtly religious.
But -- to identify what those ground things are about your relationship with god or -- higher power.
All of this the spiritual compass of your life.
And for most of us there there are some things that that a Constance we.
We want to be.
Kind -- more loving more compassionate people.
How sweet.
You know we're going to be gaining each day by giving our heart to finding delight.
In the company in the -- -- an unexpected encounter with a colleague at work -- Someone in our neighborhood or.
You know the person who's a sales clerk highways.
In a department store last week buying some sheets and and -- talking to the woman who is helping me and she was 75 years old and she'd raised.
Six kids and she wanted to talk about the sheets and her life and you know it was just this remarkable -- and sold.
I was struck by her delight.
And then and her gladness in life.
And so I think part of it is how we choose to actually.
Offer ourself to the day and to this circle.
That is not just how life and perhaps a life with god and -- spirituality.
And encircled it includes the people we will meet.
-- very interesting note -- one of the things you also talk let us celebrate time choosing trying to be so a celebrated companionship.
This is not about what.
You know you can -- the people in your life.
That generic people not some generic people but the people you meet every day that -- we made a note today which went out tomorrow at this -- ports -- talking about.
But -- quick and in terms of companion that's a little different level and it takes a little different kind of commitment right.
Oh absolutely it is -- -- -- this sort of sense of being both mindful and and awake to.
To all of the possibilities that today and every day presents to you and to me and to each of us.
And so you know as an example of that might be that you know you and I -- gonna meet for coffee this morning.
Now that's probably logistically impossible because so where we're located but we have twenty minutes perhaps because we both got busy days.
And you know I can make a choice to.
To either keep checking my Smartphone while -- having coffee or I can make a choice to to actually.
Turn it off.
And and not try to tell you that that I'm so important that I've got to keep checking my Smartphone.
Just listen to this.
Why is wonderful moments -- trust what I would I would call just being -- -- you know what twenty minutes feast over coffee wonder and so it.
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Town Clerk Trish Granger confirmed that District 3 Commissioner Peter O'Connor submitted election paperwork at Town Hall for another two-year term.
O'Connor's third, and final, two-year term would begin March 2010 and end in March 2012 if he is re-elected.
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The Longboat Key Town Commission approved a beach-funding resolution at its Monday, July 6 regular meeting that allows the town to continue to remain eligible for state grants.
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"Tasty vegan muffins that are low-fat. Much of the fat content in this recipe is from the chocolate chips, but they are soooo worth it!"
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2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 (15 ounce) can solid-pack pumpkin
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup chocolate chips
I made these yesterday and my family really enjoyed them. We jut started eating vegan for my husband's heart health, so I'm looking for new recipes to replace old favorites. These were moist and yummy and were a very nice addition to our Sunday brunch. I used 1 cup ww flour, 1 cup ww pastry flour and it worked nicely. Thanks for sharing, Mallow1!
These muffins had a good flavor, but you could tell by their appearance and texture that they are a lower fat type muffin. They don't have that smooth, slightly moist top most muffins have. The interior is soft, yet extremely dense. The exterior is slightly hard and has more of a crusty texture. The batter is very thick and the way it is spread is the way it bakes up. So consider that, if not spreading smoothly on top. Only change I made was using mini chocolate chips, pumpkin spice for the nutmeg, and King Arthur white whole wheat. These would fit most diets. The calories are also quite low for a muffin. Might be good with some coffee.
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This was a wonderful recipe! Super easy to make, and it tasted great. It was a hit with all of my friends (who are all meat and dairy eaters, some scoffed at the "Vegan" name first, saying vegan foods don't taste the same). They all LOVED it. The only thing I would add is to add some oil in the muffin liners. The muffins got stuck to the liners themselves and wouldn't come off.
Great healthy breakfast muffin for the kids. Not too sweet which I appreciate. I did add an egg because the mixture was extremely dry before baking and I wasn't necessarily looking for a vegan recipe. I agree with the other reviewers that if you leave out the chocolate chips, you need to add raisins, diced apple, cranberries, or something for a little extra sweetness
I was so surprised by how good this turned out. I used all brown flower which added a nice grainy texture to it, and made a cake instead of muffins. So yummy! And I agree that the chocolate chips are worth it- but if you skip them you would want to put some sort of added something (nuts, dates, raisins) to add sweetness.
These muffins are delicious! I added more chocolate chips because why not indulge? I made two batches, one following the recipe and one with vanilla and pumpkin spice. They both were delish! I DEFINITELY will make again!
These turned out great. I only had white flour on hand so I used that instead of the whole wheat. I also used apple cider instead of water to boost those fall flavors. They did stick to the paper but that doesn't really bother me. The fact that it's not full of added fats more than makes up for it. Great recipe!
I loved this recipe, The only thing i would point out that the best pumpkin you can use is from a can, that is really gooey and sticky. otherwise they dont set up all the way and they are not as sweet.
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