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How Natural Resource Corruption Harms U.S. National Security and Human Rights Around the World

7 March 2019 12:00PM EDT

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Publish What You Pay and Global Witness invite you to attend a lunch briefing titled, How Natural Resource Corruption Harms U.S. National Security & Human Rights Around the World. The briefing will take place on Thursday, 7 March from noon to 1 p.m. in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, 2255 Rayburn House Office Building. Lunch will be served.  

All too often, natural resource wealth in a country can provide funds to corrupt government leaders, terrorist organizations, insurgents, and ill-intentioned militias. Moreover, diversion of natural wealth proceeds can hollow out government resources needed to provide the stability necessary to promote development and investment. This is happening all over the world, from Venezuela to Russia to Nigeria, and beyond. PWYP and GW want to help ensure that elected officials, congressional staffs, and industry leaders understand more about the interlinkages between natural resource wealth, human rights abuses, and U.S. national security. Four experts will share solutions and U.S. policy recommendations that can help strengthen U.S. security by addressing this phenomenon.

Moderator
  • Corinna Gilfillan (@cgilfillan1), head of U.S. office of Global Witness

Speakers
  • Sarah Chayes (@Sarah_Chayes), author of "Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security”
  • Daniel Kaufmann (@kaufpost), NRGI president and CEO
  • Debra LaPrevotte, senior investigator for The Sentry 
  • Olarenwaju Suraju (@larryk371), Nigerian anticorruption and environmental activist, chair of that country’s Civil Society Network Against Corruption, chair of the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA)
Closing
  • Simon Taylor, Global Witness co-founder