From Fatal to Fair Transactions
Fatal Transactions is dedicated to transform Fatal Transactions into Fair Transactions: Transactions that truly contribute to sustainable peace and reconstruction in Africa.
Fatal Transactions is an international network of NGO’s who believe that the natural richness of Africa, be it gold, diamonds, oil or copper, can be a motor behind development and stabillity instead of a source of conflict. Revenues from natural resources often stimulate or continue conflict and human rights violations and threathen the just established fragile peace. In the mean time only companies, some individuals and corrupt governments profit while the local population hardly benefit from their countries’ natural wealth.
Fatal Transactions gathers information, organises events and does research. This way Fatal Transactions can show the link between conflict and human rights violations and resource extraction. Fatal Transactions acts as a critical watchdog towards governments, companies and international institutes and lobby's for more corporate social responsibility in resource extraction.
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2009
Blood diamonds - time to plug the leaks
From tomorrow June 23 (until Thursday June 25) the annual intercessional meeting of the Kimberley Process will take place in Windhoek, Namibia. At the dawn of this meeting, Fatal Transactions has co-signed a press release warning that the Kimberley Process is potentially failing its objectives. The coalition of civil society groups has said that despite having all the tools in place, the scheme was failing to address effectively issues of non-compliance, smuggling, money laundering and human rights abuses in the world’s alluvial diamond fields.
Winterschool 'China in Africa', Wroclaw University (Poland), 14-19 December
The Institute of International Studies (University of Wroclaw) and Fatal Transactions are pleased to announce the Winter School on "China in Africa: challenges and opportunities" for students from countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The Winterschool will take place 14-19 December, 2009. This is a second edition of the Fatal Transactions workshop.
Report NiZA Expert Meeting 'Fragile States and the Resource Curse'
The final report of the expert meeting 'Fragile States and the Resource Curse' that Fatal Transactions member NiZA hosted together with Cordaid is available now. The report contains an introduction to the topics discussed and the aims of the expert meeting. Furthermore, it holds summaries of the presentations and concludes with a set of recommendations.
Conference announcement: China’s quest for African resources
The two-day conference ‘China's quest for African resources: the new scramble or strategic partnership?’ will take place from 14-15 December at Wroclaw University, Poland. It will explore various issues concerning the growing engagement of China in Africa with regards to natural resources. The conference is organised by the Institute of International Studies of Wroclaw University (Poland) in cooperation with Fatal Transactions.
IPIS report: “Culprits or scapegoats?”
In its latest report IPIS investigates Belgian traders in the mineral business of eastern DRC in the light of accusations formulated in a report of the UN Panel of Experts of December 2008. The UN Panel asserted that, through certain suppliers (comptoirs), traders knowingly purchased minerals from mines controlled by non-state armed groups such as the FDLR.
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