Award-winning investigative journalism from Latin America

18 October 2013 in Americas, Civil society, People power

From tax evasion to deals between gangsters and governments, a wide range of corruption and topics of public interest were covered in the winning pieces of this year’s Latin American Investigative Journalism Awards, organised by Transparency International and Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (Press and Society Institute, IPYS). Earlier this week, a Rio de Janeiro theatre […]

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Le ras le bol des étudiants de l’université d’Abidjan

11 October 2013 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Civil society, Education, People power, Young people

Quand le ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche scientifique s’est rendu à l’université de Cocody à Abidjan, Côte-d’Ivoire, en mai dernier, il a été reçu par des étudiants en colère. Invité pour un colloque, le ministre Cissé Ibrahim Bacongo est arrivé dans la matinée de lundi sur le campus de l’université de Félix […]

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Students fed up with corruption at the University of Abidjan

11 October 2013 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Civil society, Education, People power, Young people

When the Ivorian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Ibrahim Cisse Bacongo visited the University of Cocody in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire one Monday last May, he was greeted by a gathering of angry students. He had come to the campus of the University of Felix Houphouet-Boigny of Cocody to attend a symposium. The students […]

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Keeping their word: a look at politicians running on anti-corruption platforms

4 October 2013 in Accountability, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Politics and government

The international community is far less tolerant of corruption than it was only 20 years ago. There is a growing outrage from civil society and research has increasingly demonstrated the negative effects of corruption on political stability, economic growth and poverty alleviation. One could say that anti-corruption is “hip”. This trend is also reflected in […]

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مصر: تشخيص جديد لعلّة قديمة

4 October 2013 in Access to information, Africa and Middle East, Health

هذه التدوينة تصدر ضمن سلسلة تستند إلى مقالات من مشروع ‘امتلك المعلومة : الحصول على المعلومات في الشرق الأوسط و شمال أفريقيا‘ وراء مركز التجارة العالمي المصري بواجهته المهيبة اللامعة، الذي يقع على كورنيش النيل في القاهرة، تجد مستشفى بولاق أبو العلا البالي. هناك كومة من القمامة تحيط بجدران المستشفى الرثة، لتضيف إلى هذا التناقض […]

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Lights, camera – was there G20 action?

25 September 2013 in Anti-corruption Conventions, Civil society, European Union, Events, Forestry, G20, Impunity

So now that the G20 dust has settled and the media circus has dispersed, did the representatives of two-thirds of the global population make any meaningful decisions in St Petersburg? The final St Petersburg G20 Leaders Declaration has 11 paragraphs devoted to corruption efforts. This greater visibility is welcome progress from the two sentences included […]

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Factors that give rise to corruption in higher education

23 September 2013 in Education, Young people

Imagine these scenarios: A dormitory manager in Romania accepts money in return for providing campus accommodations to ineligible students. To improve his publication record in advance of a promotion review, a faculty member in Greece engages in plagiarism. In Nigeria, a faculty member pays a journal to publish her article without scientific review. In Ghana, […]

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Knowledge empowers: A Palestinian’s quest for transparency

20 September 2013 in Access to information, Africa and Middle East

You have the right to know! You have the right to ask questions and for public officials to answer your enquiry. Unfortunately, Palestine till now does not have an access to information law. This blog post is part of a series drawing on articles from the forthcoming project It Belongs to You: Public Information in […]

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Moroccan whistleblowers: The public’s conscience

19 September 2013 in Access to information, Africa and Middle East, Whistleblowing

For most of us, changing corrupt dealings we experience every day remains insurmountable. We are often afraid what will happen to us if we do report corruption. Those who do come forward often bear great personal risks. That is why the UN Convention against Corruption, which our kingdom has ratified, affords whistleblowers a special status […]

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Egypt: A new diagnosis for an old illness

18 September 2013 in Access to information, Africa and Middle East, Health, Miscellaneous, People power

This blog post is part of a series drawing on articles from the forthcoming project It Belongs to You: Public Information in the Middle East and North Africa. Behind the imposing edifice of the shiny Egyptian World Trade Centre on the corniche in Cairo lies the decrepit hospital of Boulaq Abu Ela. A rubbish heap […]

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