Simon Taylor of Global Witness Accepts Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship

Описание: Global Witness (London, England)

Social entrepreneurs: Simon Taylor, Charmian Gooch, Patrick Alley

"Driving Transparency to Lift the 'Resource Curse' of Conflict and Human Rights Abuse"

Patrick Alley, Charmian Gooch, and Simon Taylor know that many of the world's poorest people live in the most resource-rich countries in the world. Natural resources can incentivize corruption, destabilize governments, and lead to conflict and the looting of entire states. From 2002 to 2011, illicit money flows from corrupt deals in the developing world totaled nearly $6 trillion. Global Witness investigates and exposes the shadow networks underlying these deals that fuel conflict, corruption, and environmental destruction. They collect evidence and launch hard-hitting campaigns to find global solutions and end the "resource curse" by tackling corruption, protecting the environment, preventing conflict, and defending human rights.

The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship accelerates the impact of the world's leading social entrepreneurs by uniting them with essential partners in a collaborative pursuit of learning, leverage and large scale social change.
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The Skoll Foundation drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world's most pressing problems.
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