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Anti-Corruption Day 2013: as it happened

13 December 2013 in Africa and Middle East, Americas, Anti-corruption movement, Asia Pacific, Civil society, Europe and Central Asia, Events, Human rights, People power, Young people

It’s morning in Rome, and commuters are heading to the tube station on their way to work. Today, there’s some special entertainment in store for them – a short video with a catchy tune and a clear message: it’s time to wake up to corruption. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in the Dominican Republic, crowds […]

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Saying No to Impunity in Zimbabwe

13 December 2013 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Events, Impunity, People power, Young people

Transparency International Zimbabwe joined the world to commemorate International Anti-Corruption Day, which falls on 9 December every year. The festivities involved four flash mobs in four different locations around Harare. (A flash mob is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual act for a brief time and then quickly […]

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CPI 2013: Crackdown on Middle Eastern civil society must stop

3 December 2013 in Access to information, Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Civil society, Defence and Security, Human rights, Measurement and Research, People power, Politics and government, Whistleblowing

In the Middle East and North Africa, tear gas, bullets, office raids and imprisonment have been the hallmarks of state and non-state actions against civil society activists fighting corruption. The Bahraini government proposes a draconian NGO law; while Egyptian, Jordanian and other countries’ NGO laws continue to restrict NGO registration, freedom to operate, and international […]

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El Estor’s women becoming gatekeepers of transparency

28 November 2013 in Access to information, Accountability, Americas, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Education, Health, People power, Poverty and development

In the late 1800s a British settler set up a general trading store on the banks of the pristine Lake Izabal in the remote eastern part of Guatemala. The shop, being the only supplier of goods for kilometres around, drew a throng of support from the surrounding villages and soon the area around it developed […]

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Youth photo winner: corruption, toxic waste and the power of photography

21 November 2013 in Accountability, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Europe and Central Asia, Events, People power, Poverty and development, Water, Young people

Just one image can tell a story, says Sony Ramany, winner of our 20th anniversary youth photo competition – and these stories have the power to spark real change. “We need to show images of suffering and hardships,” he says, “so that people can see the truth”. A photographer from one of Bangladesh’s leading English-language newspapers, […]

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Youth writing winner: the battle against corruption starts from within

21 November 2013 in Africa and Middle East, Education, Events, People power, Young people

If young people want to see change in the world, they have to realise the battle against corruption starts with them – they must resolve to do the right thing. This is the message from Nigeria’s Ugoh Wilson Emenike, 23, the winner of our 20th anniversary youth writing competition. Emenike’s essay is a semi-fictional account of […]

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How whistleblowing on surveillance can reform the system

14 November 2013 in Americas, Defence and Security, People power, Politics and government, Technology, Whistleblowing

The Edward Snowden case is not the first in which the exposure of surveillance activities by the United States government led to a public debate about questions of security and privacy. In 1970, former US Army intelligence officers Christopher Pyle and Ralph Stein disclosed how the army was investigating the political activities of American citizens […]

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Whistleblowers: regulators of last resort

6 November 2013 in Accountability, Americas, Europe and Central Asia, European Union, Financial Markets, People power, Politics and government, Whistleblowing

Over the past half-century, national governments have developed complex regulatory structures to oversee public health, banking, utilities, food safety, communications, transportation and other industries. By the 1980s, however, the United States and United Kingdom began pushing the policy pendulum in the other direction – deregulating industries sector by sector. Through international organisations, governments around the […]

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Sweating because of corruption

21 October 2013 in Anti-corruption movement, Asia Pacific, Civil society, Education, People power, Young people

Attending a Youth anti-corruption award ceremony at the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission in Korea turned out to be a sweaty event. Normally, travelling in Asia as soon as you enter a public building temperatures drop to below 20 degrees and one worries about catching a cold. Not this time. Last week, South Korea ordered […]

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Se premia el periodismo de investigación de América Latina

18 October 2013 in Americas, Civil society, People power

Desde evasión fiscal hasta acuerdos entre gobiernos y criminales, fueron muchos los temas de los trabajos que ganaron este año el Premio Latinoamericano de Periodismo de Investigación. Premio que otorgan Transparency International y el Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS). A principios de esta semana, un teatro en Río de Janeiro sirvió de escenario para la […]

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