For international peace. We are trying to show you as much as we can before things get started. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming. First of all we are into the season where the city tends to empty out, so we are all delighted that you are here to discuss a problem that, you know, is arguably as important in the us as it is around the world where we will focus on it. Lets me briefly introduce myself and who will be conversing with today. Im sarah cheneys. Simon is going to kick us off, simon taylor who is one of the founders of Global Witness, which is in my view one of the most innovative and effective organizations working in the space around the world and its very interestingly combined with advocacy with extremelyadvo regressed investigations and thats one of the things we will talk about today is a recent report by Global Witness about shells activities in nigeria. He also helped galvanize the coalition of Civil
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