Tag Archives | Sustainable Development

New milestone in fight against global corruption

28 September 2015 in Accountability, Anti-corruption Conventions, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Climate Change, Education, Health, Human rights, Impunity, Politics and government, Poverty and development

On 25 September 2015, the world’s leaders assembled at the UN in New York and made a historic statement in approving 17 key objectives to focus actions across the globe to bring the core strengths of our civilisation to its real potential. The UN General Assembly adopted new global goals, the “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” […]

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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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