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June 2007

interview of the month

Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of CIVICUS

This year, the Group of Eight (G8) Summit was at Heiligendamm on Germany’s Baltic Coast. With climate change and Africa high on the agenda, the civil society presence was considerable. Transparency Watch caught up with Kumi Naidoo, Secretary-General of CIVICUS, the organisation taking the lead in the Global Call to Action against Poverty coalition, to talk about the Summit, its conclusion, and its legitimacy as an organ of global governance. >> read more

spotlight story

Shining the light on money in politics

Corruption in the political process can begin long before politicians take office– in political party financing and funding of election campaigns. Crinis is a new project by Transparency International to shine the light on campaign and party financing and is currently being piloted in Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Peru. >> read more

Anti-Corruption Work Around the World

corruption in the news

Transparency International Germany lodged a complaint with the German government against 57 German companies for allegedly paying US $11.9 million in kickbacks under the United Nations’ Oil for Food programme in Iraq. >> read more

Transparency International kicked off its annual Europe and Central Asia regional meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan with a high profile anti-corruption conference on combating corruption in transition economies. >> read more

Poder Ciudadano, TI’s chapter in Argentina, has developed a programme called “The First Vote” aimed at informing young people voting for the first time in local elections. >> read more

The Japanese agriculture minister hanged himself on 28 May, only hours before he was to face an inquiry over illicit political funding. >> read more

The first death penalty imposed on a senior minister in seven years was bestowed upon China’s former drug agency chief on 29 May. >> read more

The Brazilian government has been faced with corruption allegations in a reprise of the scandals that hit President Lula's party in 2005. >> read more

News from the Anti-Corruption Movement
Reports from Transparency International’s national chapters, members and Secretariat. Click here to read this month's highlights. >> read more

Corruption in Quotes
"Corruption should be treated like terrorism, like genocide in a third-world country like Nigeria." >> read more