- With the theme, “Mobilising People: Connecting Agents of Change” the 15th edition of the biennial International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) will be held in Brasília, Brazil from 7 - 10 November 2012.
- On 3 September Transparency International and the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (Press and Society Institute, IPYS) named four Brazilian journalists as the winners of this year’s Latin American Investigative Journalism Award for their exposé on the diversion of public funds. The ceremony took ...
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- Contraband networks dealing in drugs, guns and other illicit goods have begun trading a new ‘commodity’: people. This modern day form of slavery, known as human trafficking, is estimated to affect between 2.4 to 12 million victims around the world. Corruption is the grease that illicitly ...
- After the Arab Spring, an Indian Summer. In recent weeks, thousands of people have taken to the streets to support an Indian activist's calls for stronger anti-corruption legislation, in the form of the Jan Lokpal bill, which would set up an independent anti-corruption body, and to protest his ...
- As the big clubs of European football take to the field this August, the crisis at the heart of world football continues to fester. The controversies that shadowed the decision on which countries would host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups and the presidential elections of football's world governing ...
- The Vietnam Youth Integrity Survey, released by TI’s national contact Towards Transparency and the first such survey in the country, provides insight into the behaviours and experiences of young Vietnamese and the environment that influences them.
- When institutions tasked with protecting our rights and preventing corruption do not act with integrity, it is citizens that ultimately suffer. Allegations of police corruption are central to the recent, high-profile UK phone-hacking scandal, which saw the privacy of thousands of people violated by ...
- For the past three years Transparency International has been working in Cameroon and South Africa to identify where there are risks of corruption and where poor management leads to a breakdown in services. This is part of a larger programme to promote Transparency and Integrity in Service Delivery ...
- Developments continue to unfold in the UK’s phone hacking scandal which has seen employees of a global media corporation accused of accessing the private information of several thousand people, including murder victims, politicians and relatives of those caught up in the 2007 London bombings.
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