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Civil society under pressure

7 January 2011 in Human rights

An award ceremony cancelled for “security reasons”, an arrest warrant issued over hurt feelings, a restrictive funding law. Casey Kelso, TI’s Advocacy Director, on a new report about the legal measures governments are using to limit NGOs’ room for manoeuvre, and what this means for TI. I was watching a Harry Potter film with the […]

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Human Rights Day and the link to anti-corruption

10 December 2010 in Human rights

Human Rights Day 10 December follows closely on the heels of Anti-Corruption Day, 9 December, which is not just a coincidence. They stand together because human rights are far more likely to be safeguarded in a world where there is no corruption. Andrea Figari, programme manager for Advocacy & Protection of Anti-corruption Advocates at Transparency […]

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Derogating civil responsibility: international human rights NGOs and the climate challenge

12 November 2010 in Climate Change, Human rights

Climate change is without question a human rights issue. It already affects many of the world’s most vulnerable people, increases vulnerability and affects different groups disproportionately. It directly undermines states’ ability to provide an adequate standard of living and challenges our understanding of the right to development. The protection of human rights should therefore be […]

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A look at those exposing corruption

25 October 2010 in Human rights, Politics and government

Nizar Manek, who volunteered in our Conventions Programme at Transparency International this summer, wrote this piece for the Guardian Comment is Free blog entitled Internationalising the public interest highlighting the need for international media to not forget the campaigners who pay a high price for exposing corruption in the developing world. Nizar points out: International […]

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Accounting can change the world!

6 August 2010 in European Union, Human rights, Private sector

(Source: blmurch // Creative Commons BY 2.0) All too often, natural resource revenues flow into government coffers and disappear for a time, only to transform magically into private jets, presidential palaces, luxury cars and, of course, the obligatory off-shore bank account. This is the ‘resource curse’ – kleptocracies (governments that view public funds as their […]

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Anti-corruption leader released in Niger

28 August 2009 in Africa and Middle East, Anti-corruption movement, Human rights, Region

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

12 June 2009 in Human rights, Measurement and Research

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 […]

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