Corruption Perceptions Index 2009: What does a number mean to you?

by Michael Sidwell on 12:00 pm on Tuesday, 17. November 2009 | 27 Comments

A quick search on the internet for country rankings returns thousands of results. Some tell you that Costa Rica is the happiest country in the world, while others label Germany the most beloved. Transparency International’s 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) will also show up. 180 countries ranked according to their perceived level of public sector [...]

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 [...]