Corruption: a crime against society

18 July 2011 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Anti-corruption Conventions, Anti-corruption movement, Europe and Central Asia, Financial Markets, G20

The following is an excerpt from the collected papers of the Rencontres Economiques d’Aix-en-Provence 2011. Read the full article here. Corruption is often thought of as an economic or “white collar crime”. That ignores the greater implications of corruption, the abuse of power at the expense of the many, which perpetuates social injustice and the […]

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Kenya champions open data in Africa

15 July 2011 in Access to information, Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Aid, Technology

By Tinatin Ninua, Programme Coordinator, Political Corruption. Last week marked an exciting event for the freedom of information campaigners in Kenya. On July 8th the country has launched an open data portal, which makes Kenya the first African country to release government data to the public through a single online platform. The portal aggregates information […]

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Cleaning up business in Malaysia

15 July 2011 in Asia Pacific, Private sector, Whistleblowing

“In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.” The American investor Warren Buffet’s words of advice struck a chord. His words were quoted by another man intimately familiar with the world of business, K.M.Lee, Managing […]

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Turks and Caicos Islands: charting a course to a corruption-free future

13 July 2011 in Accountability, Americas, Anti-corruption movement

Today, Transparency International (TI) is publishing a report which evaluates how well the institutions in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) tackle corruption. We call this a National Integrity Systems (NIS) report and it covers everything from government departments and the police to non-governmental organisations and the media. The Turks and Caicos Islands are a […]

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The tangled corrupt web of human trafficking

12 July 2011 in Asia Pacific, Measurement and Research

Transparency International’s latest  working paper tackles human trafficking.  Maryse Tremblay, Consultant and Researcher (ENAP, Canada),  introduces the issue. In June the New Yorker published a story about Fijian women who had been trafficked to U.S. military camps in Iraq. Those women, among thousands of others, were promised a very lucrative job in Dubai by a […]

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Corruption risks may undermine UN Arms Trade Treaty

11 July 2011 in Defence and Security

By Tobias Bock, Defence and Security Programme, Transparency International Though there are international treaties to control the sale of many goods, from dinosaur bones to postage stamps, there is no such treaty to control the trade in weapons worldwide. From July 11 to July 15, the 192 member states of the United Nations are meeting […]

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Civil society role in recovering stolen wealth

8 July 2011 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Anti-corruption Conventions, People power, Politics and government

By Gillian Dell, International Conventions, Transparency International Some of the most cutting edge work in anti-corruption is being carried out by a small group of NGOs engaged in public interest anti-corruption litigation. Among these, a few have taken legal initiatives in France and Spain to trigger criminal investigations of assets of some African dictators. In […]

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Rethinking corruption in the Middle East and North Africa

7 July 2011 in Africa and Middle East, ALAC, ALACs in AFME, People power

The following article is from Transparency International’s annual report. “When we opened, the public accepted corruption as a way of life,” says Ali Lahlou, Coordinator of the anti-corruption legal advice centre run by our Moroccan TI chapter to help people tackle corruption. Although the Middle East and North Africa are being rocked by demands for […]

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UK phone-tapping scandal shows police corruption risk

6 July 2011 in Europe and Central Asia

By Rachel Davies, Transparency International UK This afternoon the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has confirmed that documents supplied to the police contain evidence that journalists working for the News of the World made ‘inappropriate payments’ to police officers in exchange for information. This is the latest development in the phone hacking scandal which […]

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Corruption, Climate Change & the Maldives

6 July 2011 in Climate Change

By Maurie Hassan from Transparency Maldives. On Sunday, June 26th, the national launch of Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report: Climate Change, took place in Male’, Maldives. Many state dignitaries, the media, and major local environmental NGOs, attended the event, organized by Transparency Maldives. The function served as a starting point in the Maldives, for a […]

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