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March 2008

interview of the month

Elizabeth Donnelly, Coordinator of the Africa Programme, Chatham House

Elizabeth Donnelly is coordinator of the Africa Programme at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) in London. Having lived and travelled extensively in Africa, she also coordinates the British All Party Parliamentary Groups on Nigeria and Angola, and has published numerous articles and reports on Nigeria. This month Transparency Watch spoke with her about the issue of corruption in Nigeria and the work of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Nigeria. >> read more

spotlight story

Agents of Change: documenting ALACs in action

Launched in July 2007, Transparency International’s (TI) short film documentary 'Agents of Change', portrays the work of TI Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre’s in Romania and Bosnia & Herzegovina. Along with TI’s tv advertisement 'The Magician', the film was selected to be screened at the 10th annual 'One World – International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival' in Prague, Czech Republic in March. >> read more

Anti-Corruption Work Around the World

corruption in the news

Preparations for the 13th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) are underway. Set to take place in Athens, Greece, from 30 October to 2 November 2008. >> read more

Transparency International launched TI Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs) in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Guatemala, the first centre of its kind in Latin America. >> read more

“Stand Up - For Women's Rights” was the slogan of an anti-corruption concert organised by Transparency International (TI) national chapter in Bangladesh on Saturday 8 March recognising International Women's Day. >> read more

German authorities have mounted investigations into individuals suspected of tax evasion, after paying a whistleblower close to €4.2 million (US $6.2 million) >> read more

On February 28, Thaksin Shinawatra returned to Bangkok for the first time since being ousted in a coup 18 months ago to face corruption charges >> read more

On 3 March, Dmitry Medvedev won a landslide victory in the Russian presidential elections to take over from President Vladimir Putin on 7 May. >> 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 has become a hydra-headed monster ravaging not only the public sector but also spreading its poisonous tentacles to the private sector” >> read more