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This area provides highlights of the valuable work of the anti-corruption movement, championing a world free of corruption. This month highlights the following stories: |
Guatemala Declaration for a Corruption-Free Region
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The presidents and official representatives of eight Central American countries met on 15 November at the 12th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Guatemala to sign Guatemala Declaration for a Corruption-Free Region. It includes commitments to reach concrete outcomes in the fight against corruption by 2010, such as strengthening access to public information legal frameworks. |
Transparency International (TI) invited signatory governments (Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama) to use the declaration as a tool to foster the definition of sound national anti-corruption policies in their respective countries and to commit to implementing the Inter-American Convention against Corruption and the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
The declaration is an important public demonstration of their commitment to fight corruption. TI national chapters and allied civil society organisations in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama and the Dominican Republic agreed to monitor its implementation to make sure governments keep their promises.
Excelencias website wins prestigious Esso Journalism Prize
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With the aim of helping voters make an informed decision in electing Brazilian Chamber of Deputies in October, TI Brazil created the website Excelencias ("Your Excellencies") with information on the past performance of candidates seeking re-election. |
The website - www.excelencias.org.br -received wide attention from the media and the public – in total there were more than 7,5 million visitors to the site from it’s launch August to the elections in October. The website hosted profiles of 568 candidates. This information was systematically reproduced by many newspapers as well as TV and radio networks in Brazil.
The Excelencias website was one of the winners of the most recent edition of the Esso Journalism Award – the most prestigious journalism award in Brazil- under the category "Contributions to the Press". TI Brazil will work with the United Nations Democracy Fund in 2007 to make Excelencias a permanent election monitoring tool and to expand its focus beyond the lower house of parliament to include the senate and a number of state assemblies.
Plan for action at Forum for the Future
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On 30 November and 01 December, a Transparency International (TI) delegation attended the Forum for the Future conference at the Dead Sea in Jordan. The conference brought together foreign ministers from the Group of Eight (G8) nations and from the Broader Middle East and North Africa region. |
Transparency International’s delegation included representatives from TI Algeria, TI Jordan, TI Lebanon, TI Morocco, TI Palestine and staff from the TI secretariat in Berlin. The delegation presented an Action Plan at the meeting, which focused on three points for action for government. First, to establish a monitoring mechanism for the United Nations Convention against Corruption implementation; second, to strengthen anti-money laundering legislation and procedures; and third, to introduce whistleblower protection measures.
Broad support for the Action Plan was demonstrated by the Chairman's summary at the close of the meeting, which backed the recommendations. For more information on the meeting, please contact David Koschel at: dkoschel@transparency.org.