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Olympic integrity

10 August 2012 in Sport, Young people

Stick to the rules, try hard and play fair: three simple injunctions that capture the essence of Olympic spirit and the message of the anti-corruption movement. It’s not surprising that sport and the Olympics are used to inspire young people and to promote integrity. But sport has a darker side, too, and with 10,500 athletes […]

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In wake of scandal, will South Korean politicians pledge a new start?

23 July 2012 in Accountability, Asia Pacific, Politics and government, Private sector, Young people

Corruption is high on the South Korean agenda right now. Last week police said they were investigating a large-scale corruption case involving 30 government bodies. Two weeks ago the brother of South Korea’s president, himself a senior politician, was charged with accepting $525,000 in bribes from two struggling savings banks. We, Transparency International South Korea, […]

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My time at the Transparency International Summer School on Integrity

6 July 2012 in Education, Young people

The Transparency International Summer School on Integrity in Vilnius, Lithuania takes place for the third time from July 9 – 14 this year. It is the first such course in the region aimed at directly addressing the subject of corruption and how to fight it. In 2011, the event hosted around eighty youth leaders from […]

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Our time to be heard: Liberian Youth and the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

13 December 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Education, People power, Young people

Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , who was recently jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, has been re-elected as President of Liberia and has pledged to fight corruption during her second term. The challenge, says Annette Jaitner, Senior Programme Coordinator in Transparency International’s Africa and Middle East Department, is making sure that young people are […]

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Harnessing Social Media Tools to Fight Corruption

19 August 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Asia Pacific, Technology, Young people

Brynne Dunn and Dana Bekri, from the LSE Consultancy Team that prepared a report on the role of social media in the fight against corruption, reflect on their report. Upon learning that we would be researching ways social media can be used to fight corruption, we were excited to work on such an up-and-coming project […]

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Vietnamese youth film anti-corruption videos

8 August 2011 in Asia Pacific, Measurement and Research, Young people

By Stephanie Chow of Towards Transparency, the TI national contact in Vietnam. Youth can play an important role in the fight against corruption.  This is one of the findings of the Youth Integrity Survey carried out by young volunteers, students and recent graduates across 11 different provinces from major cities to small rural communities across […]

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