Aid charities are raising awareness of a new law that would force oil, gas and mining companies to tell the truth about their relations with poor countries.

A vital step has been taken say campaigners, toward requiring companies to disclose payments made for projects around the world

Christian Aid has welcomed legislation to force companies to reveal the taxes and fees paid to governments in every country where they operate.

Churches in India have backed a social activist who launched a hunger fast on 5 April 2011 to call attention to the scandal of corruption in government.