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The Liberian government has secretly given the country’s loggers a US$13 million tax break, subsidising companies at the expense of the country and forest communities.

A vote by the majority of Republicans on the US House Financial Services Committee to overturn a bipartisan transparency law is a major setback for combating corruption and a gift to big oil companies, says Global Witness.

The United States will withdraw from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global anti-corruption programme for the oil, gas and mining sector.

A new UN report outlines how environmental activists and human rights defenders who stand up to business abuses have faced criminalisation and murder.