Recovery of stolen assets: time for action
by Farzana Nawaz on 5:24 pm on Monday, 29. June 2009 | 7 Comments
As many of our readers might be aware, the French chapter of Transparency International has recently filed an anti-corruption case against the presidents of Gabon, Congo and Equitorial Guinea regarding the millions of dollars in embezzled funds they have allegedly stashed in the form of property and other goods in France. This case broke new [...]
Fighting corruption in Europe and Central Asia: issues, approaches, lessons, questions
by Georg Neumann on 12:48 pm on Tuesday, 16. June 2009 | No Comments
Emerging issues, new tools and approaches, strategies and lessons learnt in the fight against corruption will be discussed over the couple of next days as part of the Europe and Central Asia Meeting taking place from 15-17 June in the FYR of Macedonia. The meeting, organised by Transparency International’s chapter Transparency Zero-Corruption and the national [...]
New report: Connecting Corruption and Human Rights
by Craig Fagan on 3:43 pm on Friday, 12. June 2009 | No Comments
Human rights and corruption are not always connected as being integral parts of the same power game of abuses – political, economic, social and cultural. Yet the ties between them have been growing stronger for too long as corruption is increasingly used as a means and ends to human rights violations:
The stealing of oil revenues [...]
Have you paid a bribe last year?
by Georg Neumann on 10:00 am on Wednesday, 3. June 2009 | 5 Comments
Have you paid a bribe in the previous 12 months? This is one of the multitude of questions Transparency International asked more than 73.000 people in 69 countries to address, in the 2009 Global Corruption Barometer, published today, 3 June.
The Barometer is a global public opinion survey that looks at perceptions and experiences of ordinary [...]
European elections – time to rethink weak transparency rules?
by Christian Humborg on 7:12 pm on Tuesday, 2. June 2009 | 1 Comment
Thursday is an important day for Europe. The elections for the European Parliament begin. The expenses scandal in the UK shows that politicians in Europe are no angels. Therefore trust, transferred by vote, should be supplemented by clear regulations and transparency rules on the European level. Although there have been some steps in the past, [...]
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