'More consultation, less exploitation: the extractive industries and community consent', 2 Oct 2015:…While oil, gas, and mining companies…exploit natural resources and boost their profits, affected communities often suffer from the consequences and these projects too frequently pave the way to protest and violent conflict. Oxfam recently released a new report, the 2015 Community Consent Index [which]…reviews publicly available corporate commitments on…Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), and community engagement more broadly…Can greater corporate transparency in terms of community engagement lead to improved community rights? Augustine Niber, Executive Director for the Center for Public Interest Law (CEPIL) in Ghana thinks so…[Here are] his thoughts…[on] the Community Consent Index…