Resource Transparency Movement in Libya

=Transparency International= Transparency International operates a system of national chapters around the world, and often writes reports on corruption in specific countries. It also produces the annual Corruption Perception Index, which has been published globally since 1995. In 2010, Libya ranked 146th out of 178 countries surveyed.

=Revenue Watch Institute= The Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) has been active in Libya since the 2011 war. In September 2011, RWI held a workshop on oil revenue management in Beirut. Bringing together civil society leaders from seven Middle Eastern and North African countries — Libya, Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco and Yemen — the workshop focused on how civil society could influence better management of oil revenue policies.

During the 2011 war, RWI also published articles stressing the need for greater transparency in Libya's oil industry and arguing that the changes in Libya present a valuable opportunity to improve the management of its natural resource revenues.

=Global Witness= Global Witness advocated the expansion of United Nations (UN) sanctions on Libya in March 2011, having written an open letter to the UN Security Council proposing such a move, in cooperation with RWI and other groups. Additionally, it issued two press releases in August 2011 calling for the open and transparent managing of Libya's oil wealth, and produced a report detailing how this could be done. Global Witness also published an article in May 2011 detailing the involvement of Western banks, including HSBC and Goldman Sachs, in holding Libyan state oil money.

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