Sylvia Schenk, a former German Olympic athlete and lawyer, is a senior advisor to Transparency International, the anti-corruption NGO and chair of TI Deutschland, TI’s German chapter. What a surprise: there is match-fixing in football and the authorities appear to be taken aback. This was not supposed to happen. Four years ago when German referee […]
Drawing up corruption: new comic-book
This post has been written by Alfred Bridi, Policy and Research Department, Transparency International. A new comic-book anthology turns heads without a single trace of caped crusaders or friendly neighbourhood superheroes. A far cry from the scandals of Gotham City, this anthology focuses instead on a specific breed of dark deeds around Chinese AIDS programmes, […]
Corruption Perceptions Index 2009: What does a number mean to you?
Read about the Corruption Perceptions Index 2010 here. Read about the Corruption Perceptions Index 2011 here. For regional perspectives on the CPI 2011 results see here: Europe and Central Asia Americas Sub-Saharan Africa Asia Pacific Middle East and North Africa For a blog post defining public sector corruption click here and to read about our […]
The Deal in Doha
On Friday the 13th, the Doha deal on the UNCAC review mechanism was concluded! (Resolution L9). The deal was adopted by approximately 106 States Parties represented at CoSP3 —another 14 governments were there as observers. It’s a landmark in establishing the first ever UN peer review mechanism. But its not a deal to celebrate — […]
6 years, 3 conferences, no happy end?
Negotiations on the fourth day of the conference on the UN Convention against Corruption in Doha were long and hard. Governments from the two sides met last night and held discussions until around 2:00 in the morning. However, no final agreement has been found yet. Varying reports about what the draft text for how the […]
Latinoamérica no encuentra consenso.
Conferencia de Estados parte de la Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra la Corrupción. Guest post by Inés Selvood Después de tres días de negociaciones en Doha, aún los países de la región no han podido llegar a un consenso sobre las características del mecanismo de seguimiento de la Convención. La mayoría de los Estados […]
Show your teeth
Today’s civil society action at the Conference of States Parties on the UN Convention against Corruption by the UNCAC Coalition for an effective review mechanism of convention. The action was based on the great idea from our colleagues at Global Witness, who brought the tooth with the slogan: Will UNCAC wind up toothless? It was […]
En Doha por más transparencia
Guest post by Mercedes de Freitas Estamos en Doha reunidos por un mecanismo de seguimiento que permita apoyar y comprobar el avance de los países en la lucha contra la corrupción. Tres posiciones resumen las diferencias en relación con la forma de abordar la lucha contra la corrupción:
Day 2: Mechanism not to wind up toothless
The second day of the conference has started. The key issues in the discussions on the UNCAC review mechanism are on the table. Two positions have crystalized, two draft resolutions are on the table. I will be trying today to get hold of them to put them up here on the blog. While one position […]
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