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A year of corruption-busting in South Africa

7 February 2013 in Africa and Middle East, Anti-corruption movement, Politics and government, Whistleblowing, Young people

Exactly a year ago, in the clinical hall which once housed an infamous women’s prison, South Africa’s Corruption Watch was born. The imposing space was packed to capacity with political heavyweights, anti-apartheid luminaries, journalists and human rights activists who had come to welcome the launch of the first civil society watchdog of its kind in […]

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If you whistleblow on me…I will bite your ears off!

12 November 2012 in Africa and Middle East, Whistleblowing, Young people

Our Palestinian chapter have prepared children’s stories about corruption as part of a national educational campaign. They provide a nice example of that human tradition of using stories to pass lessons between generations. In one story, “the integrity of the fox”, a fox starts an agricultural project in cooperation with a rabbit. But the fox […]

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Corporate whistleblowers gain new rights and opportunities in the US

1 October 2012 in Americas, Private sector, Whistleblowing

Largely under the public radar, the last decade has seen a legal revolution in the United States in the area of corporate freedom of speech. Although a hodgepodge of 57 laws protecting corporate and government whistleblowers remains, 11 private sector laws passed since the turn of the millennium have established consistent principles for a modern […]

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Record-breaking whistleblower award completes the circle

12 September 2012 in Americas, Private sector, Whistleblowing

On 12 September 2012, the US Internal Revenue Service awarded Bradley Birkenfeld $104 million for providing information on how the Swiss bank UBS AG helped thousands of US citizens hide billions of dollars from tax authorities. Mark Worth, Transparency International’s Whistleblower Programme Coordinator, discusses what this means for whistleblowers and would-be whistleblowers everywhere. The big […]

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