Welcome to Partnership Africa Canada
a forum for research, dialogue and action on African development
Partnership Africa Canada is working to strengthen good governance and respect for human rights, prevent conflict related to natural resource exploitation, and promote sustainable development.
Lifting the Veil: Exploring the Transparency of Canadian Companies
November 2009. Publish What You Pay Canada has published a pioneering report on public disclosure regulations in Canada's extractive industries. The report details the strengths and weaknesses of Canadian disclosure rules, providing NGOs, investors and the media with a new and detailed roadmap for holding mining oil and gas companies accountable for their activities and policies.
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Failure to suspend Zimbabwe from blood diamond scheme undermines efforts to end abuses and clean up international trade - Press release, November 6, 2009
Diamonds and Human Security, Annual Review 2009
October 2009. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), which regulates the world trade in rough diamonds, is the only thing standing between the industry and a return to blood diamonds. And it is failing, according to the 2009 edition of Partnership Africa Canada’s Diamonds and Human Security Annual Review. The failure of the KP, the report says, is not caused by warlords and sanctions busters but by governments at the centre of its administration which refuse to get tough on blatant smuggling, human rights abuse and money laundering.
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Zimbabwe's blood diamonds not key to economic recovery. Suspending Zimbabwe from the Kimberley Process is Essential. - Press release, August 3, 2009
Three civil society workshops on the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) have recently taken place in Cameroon, Sierra Leone and Togo. See workshop reports
The APRM Monitor 7, June 2009
- Monitoring the APRM’s mixed messages :The continental governance of the APRM lacks transparency
- APRM news at the national level
- Global trends in NGO law – a new journal :Laws enacted in some African countries target NGOs involved in human rights and democracy work
- Civil society APRM resources
- Yaoundé APRM seminar report
- Media watch
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Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds
March 2009. This report describes the role of diamonds in the Zimbabwean economy and their place in the country’s increasingly repressive governance. It describes growing evidence of smuggling, the militarization of diamond resources and the killing of dozens of unarmed diamond diggers by the armed forces of Zimbabwe. The report describes the lacklustre role in all of this played by the Kimberley Process, and it asks the United Nations Security Council to step in. |
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