Tag Archives | cartoons

Fighting corruption from the classroom

13 March 2014 in Anti-corruption movement, Asia Pacific, Civil society, Education, Human rights, People power, Young people

For the students of University Laboratory School, 3 March 2014 was out of the ordinary. They had been told by their teachers over the previous few days about an exhibition of cartoons, which would be held at their school premises. And not only that, a quiz competition and anti-corruption oath-taking ceremony would follow – something […]

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Drawing connections with cartoons: on the campaign trail in Papua New Guinea

9 August 2013 in Climate Change, Forestry

Michael was the only person in the village who could speak English. He had learned it in Australia, and talked with a gentle upwards incline. As I spoke Michael interpreted into Suau (the local language), pausing intermittently for responses from the crowd. My audience was intimidatingly large – huddled rows of crossed legs and expectant […]

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Anti-corruption day in Bangladesh

10 December 2012 in Anti-corruption movement, Asia Pacific, Young people

Under  the slogan  ‘Let’s fight corruption in the spirit of independence and invincible youth’, Transparency International Bangladesh organised activities both at a local and national level to observe  International Anti-Corruption Day 2012. Highlights were a human chain in the capital and the opening of an exhibition of cartoons about corruption. Committees of Concerned Citizens  in […]

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Anti-Corruption Day in Bangladesh

6 January 2012 in Anti-corruption movement, Asia Pacific, People power

On 9 December 2011, people travelling through Savar were greeted with an unexpected sight. In the midst of buses and cars, a stream of cyclists burst through the traffic, each wearing a matching green t-shirts and matching white baseball caps. At the University of Dhaka, a similar-looking group made a human chain in front of […]

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