- 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.
- We are a global movement sharing one vision: a world in which government, politics, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption. Discover in our 2010 Annual Report how we are turning our vision into reality.
- As citizens in Greece take to the streets to protest austerity plans, their leaders negotiate deeper spending reductions to secure terms for further financial bailouts. Meanwhile, one of the root causes of the crisis – corruption – is fading from view.
- For more than two years, key players in the hydropower sector have worked together with civil society to develop a framework for assessing the impact of hydro electric plants. This tool is called the Hydro Sustainability Assessment Protocol and it is being launched on June 16 at the World Congress ...
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