Patrick Allyen of the environmental charity Global Witness wants wood from war zones boycotted.
Tim Worstall, a Forbes contributor, recently published a post on conflict minerals and Global Witness.
Global Witness reported other shipments going to Laos from Stung Treng that same month.
The work of Global Witness in Angola is actually paid for by the British Foreign Office.
Campaign group Global Witness says the industry has not done enough to tackle trade in "conflict diamonds".
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The investigators of the government's forestry department, Global Witness complained, were ignoring all the abuses it reported.
My claim is that the actions of Global Witness are making life worse for people in the Congo.
Global Witness took issue with the piece ( you can read it here) and requested space to respond.
Thus moves, largely driven by two NGOs, Global Witness and the Enough Project, to do something about this.
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Global Witness, the organisation selected for the job, duly reported that they were not, to the government's fury.
Yet, a year ago, the government had nothing but praise for Global Witness.
The logic would seem to suggest that it would be just and righteous to stop Global Witness doing those things, no?
The advocacy group Global Witness has been lobbying the United States to act against the President Obiang's son Teodor, a government minister.
Outfits such as the International Crisis Group and Global Witness publish detailed and opinionated reports from places beset by war or other disasters.
Global Witness, an anti-corruption outfit, has reported that the resolution has been badly enforced, with only half-hearted efforts at self-policing by the tin industry.
"We are talking about the gas supply of Ukraine, " says Tom Mayne, a researcher for Global Witness, a London-based non-governmental organization that tracks corruption.
The president's spokesman has threatened to start civil and criminal proceedings against Global Witness, and anyone who publicises its report inside or outside Angola.
That the Enough Project and Global Witness are in part responsible for snatching away of any way of making a living, of people in The Congo.
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Dos Santos immediately spent much of the money on arms to fight rebels led by Jonas Savimbi, according to Global Witness , the London-based human rights group.
Global Witness, a pressure group and founding KP member, pulled out of weeks later, saying its inability to hold elected governments to account was a fatal flaw.
The campaign group Global Witness claims 60% of Liberia's rainforests have been sold and Oxfam says nearly a third of Liberia has been swallowed up by land deals.
"Ordinary citizens in Angola, Equatorial Guinea or Kazakhstan have no information on what is happening to that money, " Gavin Hayman of Global Witness told the BBC's Today programme.
Which is that the regulations which Global Witness have pushed for seem to have made, for large numbers of Congolese miners and their families, things worse, not better.
According to Amy Barry of Global Witness, the Kimberley Process has yet to demonstrate itself capable of stopping the trade because of a lack of political will among member states.
Global Witness calls on the oil companies and the commercial banks that deal with Angola to use their leverage to demand greater accountability and openness in the use of the country's money.
Global Witness, for instance, which is not among the 151, has seconded a member of its staff to work with Mr Ruggie on drawing up guidelines for how companies should behave in conflict zones.
The result was an agreement by the United Nations, European Union, the governments of 74 countries, the World Diamond Council -- representing the industry -- and a number of interest groups such as Global Witness.
Global Witness, an anti-corruption outfit, cites a case brought against it in which the son of the Congolese president used protection-of-privacy arguments after the group published his credit-card bills, which showed his spending on luxury goods.
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According to Global Witness, the government decided at a meeting with donors in October not to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an international coalition that would require full disclosure of oil, gas and mining revenues.
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