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No impunity: the law steps in to investigate

22 October 2014 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Anti-corruption movement, Asset recovery, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, G20, Impunity, Oil and gas, Politics and government, Water

It’s getting harder for Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue to keep getting away with it. The son of the long-serving president of Equatorial Guinea has been forced by the US government to forfeit his cliff-top Malibu mansion, a rare Ferrari and several life-size Michael Jackson statues, all said by the US Department of Justice to have […]

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Brazil: marching against corruption

20 August 2014 in Access to information, Accountability, Americas, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Education, Health, Human rights, Impunity, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Water, Young people

On 24 July the town hall in Queimada Nova was packed. The citizens of this small town – which has about 8,000 residents and is situated 520km from Teresina, the state capital of Piauí – had gathered to listen to a group of volunteer anti-corruption activists who had just finished analysing the town’s accounts. This was […]

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Why governance matters for development: critics listen up!

25 July 2014 in Access to information, Accountability, Aid, Anti-corruption Conventions, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Education, G20, Health, Human rights, Measurement and Research, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Water

The framing is simple but the implications are huge: to end poverty, you have to end corruption. Transparency International has been using this argument since it was founded over 20 years ago. There now appears to be a ground swell of people from the countries which donate the most to development, who agree with us. […]

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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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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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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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Marching against corruption in Brazil: the final days

13 August 2013 in Americas, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Human rights, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Water

  This post is authored by Lirian Pádua, a Journalism graduate who works as a reporter, editor, and photographer and is volunteering for the NGO Batra (Bauru Transparente), a member of Amarribo Brasil’s network.   The 12th March against corruption that wound its way through the arid countryside of Piauí came to end a couple of weeks ago. […]

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Marching against corruption in Brazil: Day Three

25 July 2013 in Americas, Civil society, People power, Water

  This post is authored by Lirian Pádua, a Journalism graduate who works as a reporter, editor, and photographer and is volunteering for the NGO Batra (Bauru Transparente), a member of Amarribo Brasil’s network.   Between the towns of Caracol and Jurema, in the small neighbourhood of Pitombeiras we saw just what a difference water can make and […]

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Marching Against Corruption in Brazil: Day Two

19 July 2013 in Americas, Civil society, Education, Health, Human rights, People power, Poverty and development, Water

  This post is authored by Lirian Pádua, a Journalism graduate who works as a reporter, editor, and photographer and is volunteering for the NGO Batra (Bauru Transparente), a member of Amarribo Brasil’s network.     Hope is what drives the population of the small town of Cajueiro, an arid, isolated community in the southwestern corner of Piauí, […]

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Marching against Corruption in Brazil: Day One

16 July 2013 in Americas, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Human rights, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Water

  This post is authored by Lirian Pádua, a Journalism graduate who works as a reporter, editor, and photographer and is volunteering for the NGO Batra (Bauru Transparente), a member of Amarribo Brasil’s network.   About 25 volunteers from a number of different organisations gathered today in Guaribas, a town of 4,800 in the arid bushland in the […]

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