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The Arab Spring: one year on – part two

By on 30 December 2011 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Anti-corruption movement, Human Rights, People power

The following is an excerpt from an article published by the Huffington Post. A year ago, Tunisians were in the process of bringing down a corrupt leader. It all started on 17 December 2010 when Tunisian fruit-seller Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire outside the building of the local officials who had abused him. With [...]

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The Arab Spring: one year on – part one

By on 30 December 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Human Rights, People power, Political Corruption

The following is an excerpt from an article published by Al Jazeera. As Tahrir Square fills up again with angry, disillusioned and disappointed citizens, those in power in the Arab world and those who wish to gain power through the ballot box in 2012 should ask themselves one question: How can the next generation of [...]

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Every Day is Anti-Corruption Day

Every Day is Anti-Corruption Day

By on 12 December 2011 in Americas, Anti-corruption movement, People power

Alejandro Salas is the Regional Director for the Americas at Transparency International. The following article was first published on Fox News Latino. December 9, declared as International Anti-Corruption Day by the United Nations in 2003, should be a day of concern and reflection for every citizen around the world. We are all affected, in one [...]

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Libya: will this be the next Iraq?

By on 14 September 2011 in Africa and Middle East, People power, Private Sector

Antonia Bosanquet, Transparency International’s Arab media specialist, looks at Libya’s future as seen by Arab-language online media. It’s over and the end was cleaner than any of the NATO allies dared to hope; instead of the “grubby compromise” between rebels and Ghaddafi loyalists that was predicted by analysts, the rebels surprised the world by storming [...]

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Looking to a new Libya

By on 31 August 2011 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, G20, People power, Political Corruption, Private Sector

As Transparency International asks the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group to prioritise anti-bribery laws, asset recovery and money laundering ahead of the Cannes G20 Summit, Transparency International’s Group Director for Research & Knowledge Robin Hodess reflects on relevance of the disastrous and destabilising impacts the failure to address corruption has had in Arab Spring countries such [...]

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Harnessing Social Media Tools to Fight Corruption

By on 19 August 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Asia Pacific, Technology, Young people

Brynne Dunn and Dana Bekri, from the LSE Consultancy Team that prepared a report on the role of social media in the fight against corruption, reflect on their report. Upon learning that we would be researching ways social media can be used to fight corruption, we were excited to work on such an up-and-coming project [...]

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Digital Technologies And The Arab Spring – Part one

By on 2 August 2011 in Africa and Middle East, People power, Technology

In a two-part article, Johnny West, author of a new book based on his personal experience of the Arab Spring, writes about the role of social media in the revolution. Sometimes hype is justified. Earlier this year, the airwaves and opinion columns of media around the world were full of talk of Facebook revolution in [...]

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Access to information in the Arab region

Access to information in the Arab region

By on 25 July 2011 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, People power

By Antonia Bosanquet, Transparency International’s Arab media specialist. الوصول إلى المعلومات في العالم العربي This week sees the launch of ACTION, an ambitious multi-country project which will run until the end of 2013 in the MENA region. The title behind the acronym, Addressing Corruption Through Information and Organised Networking, encapsulates the goals of the project, which [...]

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Egypt needs stronger anti-corruption laws, and enforcement

By on 2 July 2011 in Africa and Middle East, People power

By Manuel Pirino, Programme Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa region for Transparency International This week Transparency International launched a report about the effectiveness of Egypt’s laws and institutions in fighting corruption. Like 151 other countries, Egypt has ratified the UN Convention against Corruption. This document examined the legal framework that was in [...]

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Chantal Uwimana, Transparency International’s Regional Director for Africa and the Middle East gives a keynote speech

Giving voice to governance grievances

By on 20 May 2010 in Africa and Middle East, Anti-corruption movement, Events, Measurement and Research, Region

How do you get governments that claim to be preoccupied with more immediate priorities and issues such as political instability in the Arab world to pay attention to corruption? This was the fundamental question that began our day as I accompanied Chantal Uwimana, Transparency International’s Director for Africa and Middle East during an interview with [...]

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