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5 reasons South Africa Arms Deal sweeteners turned sour

6 March 2014 in Access to information, Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Cost of Corruption, Defence and Security, Miscellaneous, Politics and government, Private sector

Ever since the South African government signed a US$4.8 billion deal to buy weapons from Swedish, British, German and South African defence companies in 1999, it has been hounded by allegations of corruption. The deal is still ongoing, and could still be cancelled. One of the justifications for the purchase was offset contracts – side […]

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Corruption-busting in Zimbabwe: why being a woman helps

5 March 2014 in Access to information, Accountability, Africa and Middle East, ALAC, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Education, Health, Human rights, Impunity, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Water, Whistleblowing, Young people

Saturday 8 March is International Women’s Day, and to mark the occasion we’re celebrating women corruption fighters across the world! All this week we’ll be interviewing some of the many remarkable women who fight corruption in our movement, and on Friday we’ll be profiling the women who spur YOU on to stand up against injustice. […]

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Eu to freeze corrupt assets from Ukraine

5 March 2014 in Asset recovery, Cost of Corruption, Europe and Central Asia, European Union, Impunity, People power, Politics and government

Corruption has been at the heart of the Ukrainian political system for years. According to the latest Corruption Perceptions Index, Ukraine scored 25 out of 100, making it the lowest scoring country in Europe. The Global Corruption Barometer found that 74 percent of Ukrainians said public sector corruption is a serious problem. 47 percent said their government is entirely run by a few big entities acting in their own interest.

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Champion for women’s rights in Pakistan

3 March 2014 in ALAC, Anti-corruption movement, Asia Pacific, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Education, Human rights, People power, Poverty and development, Young people

Saturday 8 March is International Women’s Day, and to mark the occasion we’re celebrating women corruption fighters across the world! All this week we’ll be interviewing some of the many remarkable women who fight corruption in our movement, and on Friday we’ll be profiling the women who spur YOU on to stand up against injustice. […]

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Bosnians demand a change

18 February 2014 in Accountability, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Europe and Central Asia, European Union, Impunity, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development

It is not surprising that the people are again in the streets in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The leaders of the political parties have refused to take responsibility for citizens’ dissatisfaction and poverty, attempting to present the protests as an ethnic, rather than social discontent fuelled by corruption. The first reaction of the political elite to […]

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Inside Ukraine’s protests

14 February 2014 in Accountability, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Defence and Security, Europe and Central Asia, European Union, Human rights, Impunity, Measurement and Research, Oil and gas, People power, Politics and government, Young people

Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, has been racked by protests, the largest since the 2004 Orange Revolution when the country rose up in response to fraudulent presidential elections. Thousands of people have been occupying Kiev’s main square since last November and more recently, government buildings. The varying reports on the reasons for the violence and the range […]

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Money up in the air? Corruption in Yemen’s gas sector

13 February 2014 in Access to information, Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Impunity, Oil and gas, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development

Hundreds of Yemenis protested on the streets of Sanaa against the government’s ongoing negotiations with French oil company Total about the pricing of liquefied natural gas (LNG), which is one of the main sources of the country’s wealth. Protestors claimed that Yemenis have lost hundreds of millions of dollars of potential earnings from the country’s […]

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Anti-corruption: charting a path for the future

31 January 2014 in Aid, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Forestry, Human rights, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development

What does the future hold for the fight against corruption? Recently, three books have been written seeking to answer this question, helping to plot the course of the anti-corruption movement for the years to come. Laurence Cockcroft: Global Corruption: Money, Power, and Ethics in the Modern World One of the co-founders of Transparency International, Laurence […]

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Truthful asset declaration a vital corruption-fighting tool

9 January 2014 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, ALAC, Anti-corruption Conventions, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Lobbying, Measurement and Research, People power, Politics and government

Many Zimbabweans feel that the lack of political will to enforce asset disclosure laws is aiding impunity by top level public officials in the fight against corruption, says a recent mini survey conducted by Transparency International Zimbabwe. This mini survey was prompted by the ongoing discussion and growing demand for public officials to declare their […]

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MDGs: end corruption to end poverty

19 December 2013 in Aid, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Health, Human rights, Measurement and Research, Poverty and development, Water

International anti-corruption day may have come and gone, but 9 December also offers the chance to look to where else the fight remains to stop the corrupt in their tracks. Nowhere is this more urgent than in the fight against poverty. “To end poverty, you have to end corruption” is a call to action that […]

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