Anti-corruption leader released in Niger

by Stephanie Don on 7:52 pm on Friday, 28. August 2009 | No Comments

The anti-corruption leader Wada Maman who was arrested last Saturday 22 August in Niamey, Niger, has been released on bail, along with eight other men who were detained on the same day. His arrest and the ongoing intimidation of civil society in the country continue to be a cause of great concern for Transparency International [...]

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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 [...]

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