Rio+20: Hope for the anti-corruption community

13 July 2012 in Climate Change, Lobbying, Poverty and development

Money laundering, bribery, embezzlement, cronyism; corruption has many guises and is endlessly creative. Its main fuel is a failure to acknowledge or act upon its existence. Last month’s Rio+20 conference on sustainable development dodged that fate. Sustainable development is about ensuring that economic growth can happen globally, but evenly and not at the expense of […]

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What does corruption mean to you?

12 July 2012 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, ALAC, Americas, Anti-corruption movement, Asia Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, People power, Poverty and development, Private sector, Technology

Corruption. Inevitable? Unstoppable?  We don’t think so – and we want to hear your ideas for new ways of talking about it. Launched today, our 2011 Annual Report offers a snapshot of our activities around the world in 2011 – from the 3,500 election monitors we recruited in Guatemala through social media, to the 17 year […]

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What role will Mexico’s future President play?

12 July 2012 in Americas, Politics and government, Poverty and development

Mexico will have a new… Puppet? Statesman? Reformer? Luddite? Maverick? Dinosaur? The question is hard to answer. The country will have a new president in December, but what role will he play? The election campaign in Mexico was long and intense. It allowed those of us who followed it from within Mexico or abroad to […]

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Fighting corruption, empowering people in Uganda’s health service

11 July 2012 in Africa and Middle East, Poverty and development, Technology

It was another day of fieldwork; the project officer arrived at Amach health centre IV in Lira district, Northern Uganda at 9:15am and was welcomed by the security guard. No health worker had started working yet. He found 15 patients seated waiting for health service. By 10:20am 78 patients had lined up. Patients could not […]

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The financial sector: a culture of transparency?

10 July 2012 in Accountability, Financial Markets, Private sector

The recent global financial crisis highlighted the need to broaden the discussion about regulation and oversight of the financial system. Transparency and related risk assessments of financial institutions have surged to the top of the agenda. In our study on transparency and disclosure of measures for reducing corruption risk among the world’s largest companies published […]

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TI Summer School kick-off: Watch a lecture by Daniel Kaufmann live

9 July 2012 in Events

Transparency International Lithuania invites you to follow the live stream of a public lecture by Mr. Daniel Kaufmann, senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution (USA), former head of the World Bank Institute, on 09 July, Monday. The lecture “Revisiting Corruption: A Governance Framework” will open the third Transparency International […]

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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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Georgia: local residents fall victim of illegal property seizures

3 July 2012 in Europe and Central Asia, Politics and government, Private sector

In early 2011, Transparency International Georgia began to actively work towards the better protection of property rights. In May of this year, TI Georgia visited several west Georgian settlements (Anaklia, Grigoleti and Gonio) where they met with affected local populations. Gia Gvilava and Eka Bokuchava, both lawyers at the office, report from their visits and […]

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Civil Society in Libya – between high hopes and frustration

2 July 2012 in Africa and Middle East, Anti-corruption movement, People power

Sixteen months after the February 17th revolution the country is preparing for its next historical step: The upcoming elections for a new parliament! Although they have just been postponed from June 19th to take place on July 7th 2012, these elections will be the first free elections for the people of Libya after the 42 […]

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Training water integrity trainers with the GIZ

29 June 2012 in Poverty and development, Water

Andrea van der Kerk, an independent consultant on projects related to water governance and communications, attended the event on behalf of WIN – a network  created to respond to increasing concerns among water and anti-corruption stakeholders over corruption in the water sector. What is water integrity? Why is it important? How can it be promoted? […]

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