A coalition of civil society groups calls for the United Kingdom’s government to suspend a major global body that oversees how to manage oil and gas companies.
Activists said that the Labor Party of Care Starmer has supervised a “enthusiastic, sponsored campaign” on peaceful protest and direct work in the United Kingdom since it came to power last year.
They argued that these measures – which led to a record number of peaceful climate activists who imprisoned Beng – are not compatible with the continued membership of the UK in the Transparency Initiative in Extractive Industries (EITI), an organization that brings together governments, companies and civil society to improve the governance of great oil.
Julion Mugham, Executive Director of the Good Law, was one of those who signed Friday to Eiti.
He said: “In order for our government to remember that it is not a private security company for the oil and gas industry, it recognizes the important right to protest, and stops imprisonment activists in the peaceful climate, and the United Kingdom should be suspended from the initiative.”
The government faced Significant criticism of his suppression The right to protest. Michelle Forest, the United Nations Environmental Defenders, has Description In the United Kingdom as “terrifying”. The government moved this week to the ban on Palestinian action under the terrorism law, and to place the direct work group in the same legal category that is the organization and the Islamic State.
Eiti, based in Oslo, includes more than 50 member states, including the UK. It aims to give an equal voice to great oil, governments and civil society groups in overseeing how to manage extractive industries, from how to grant contracts to political donations and taxes.
Part of its criterion, which all signers must adhere to: “The government must ensure that there is an enabling environment for the participation of civil society in relation to the relevant laws, regulations and rules as well as the actual practice in implementing Eiti.”
Activists said that successive UK governments have violated this requirement, pointing to the harsh measures hostile to the presented, and highlighting the impact of individuals, Including the independent government consultant for political violenceHightwing Thinktanks with links to fossil fuel industry.
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“The UK Democratic Government sold to its sponsors in the fossil fuel industry. It allows them to formulate the laws of society for a worrying society, the community’s exciting trial of plans is not less than the trial of civil society,” said Tim Crossland, director of the climate charitable plan, which also signed the presentation, along with the home of the corner and defending our jury bodies.
Member countries must be validate to the EITI standard at least every three years, and the UK’s health verification period is scheduled to start on July 1. It is expected that it will continue its membership later in the summer.
