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Turks and Caicos Islands: charting a course to a corruption-free future

Today, Transparency International (TI) is publishing a report which evaluates how well the institutions in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) tackle corruption. We call this a National Integrity Systems (NIS) report and it covers everything from government departments and the police to non-governmental organisations and the media. The Turks and Caicos Islands are a […]

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Will the World Cup and Olympics bring more corruption to Brazil?

By Sophie Amelia Mendes from the IACC team, and Stella Borzilo, from the Americas department, at Transparency International. For a few days every year since 2001, dozens of people marching through the towns and villages of the arid Brazilian North East. These are the people who are speaking out against corruption in Brazil, taking part […]

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Putting the corruption fight on the political agenda in France

  The biggest challenge for TI France is intensifying international efforts for better governance – a prerequisite for sustainable development – at home and abroad We are making inroads. The magazine Acteurs publics gave TI France their 2010 award for best communicator in the category “associations and great causes”  for our activities on lobbying regulation […]

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How to spot an anti-corruption hero

Sophie Brown is a Communications Assistant at Transparency International and heads the Integrity Awards programme at TI. She wrote about the programme for Trust Law. This is the introduction; her full article is available here. At nearly 80 years of age and standing less than five feet tall, Le Hien Duc is not what you […]

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Timed out? Italian authorities told off by GRECO – and by their citizens

In Italy, one in ten criminal proceedings is dismissed during the prosecution phase because the statutes of limitations expire. Making matters worse: proceedings can effectively be closed, even if an offender has been found guilty in the first instance, in case the appeal process exceeds the statutes of limitations. Not surprisingly, our recent comparative research […]

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Bribery: a barrier to good use of taxpayers’ money?

Fighting foreign bribery and strengthening government procurement processes are key to addressing corruption in international trade. Companies who bribe foreign officials are on the “supply side” of international corruption. Transparency International’s latest Progress Report on foreign bribery enforcement found that government efforts to stop this practice are lacking. Last week, 20 of Transparency International’s European […]

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Mobilising to make aid transparent

How much money are donors giving to Liberia, Peru and Sri Lanka? It sounds like a simple question and one that should have a quick answer – but it does not. Donors have pledged in international agreements to provide such information by making their aid more open and effective, but most have failed to fulfill […]

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How Martin became transparent & won a UN public service award

A TI anti-corruption project in the Slovak city of Martin has won a UN award, Gabriel Sipos from TI Slovakia reports. The northern Slovak city of Martin was given the prestigious UN Public Service Award for its anti-corruption reforms supplied by the Slovak chapter of Transparency International last week. It is the first time that […]

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G20: Leading on anti-corruption? The view from civil society

In the fight against corruption, Germany falls behind

With India’s ratification of UNCAC this month, Germany is one of the last three G20-countries to have not ratified the UN Convention against Corruption, together with Japan and Saudi-Arabia. This is not only embarrassing; it also undermines the credibility of Germany’s efforts to fight corruption at international level, hampering the government’s ability to create a […]

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Noodles, cartoons and maps: serious anti-corruption solutions from Russia

Visiting Russia is bound to be an interesting experience for an American who lived through the Cold War. And this past week, my first trip to Moscow, has not disappointed. From the thrill of Red Square and the city’s varied architecture to the surprise – to me – appearance of countless soldiers and tanks gathered […]

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