TI Canada will organise a Breakfast Discussion with Professor David Shugarman, Director of the York University Centre for Practical Ethics, to give an update on the Federal Accountability Act: What has happened; what still needs to happen. The Ethics Centre and Transparency International Canada are pleased to co-host this event. Professor Shugarman's research interests include Canadian politics with a focus on public policy. Join us for what promises to be a very interesting discussion of this government initiative.

The discussion will look at the political and societal context, challenges as well possible actions and initiatives to tackle the issue of corruption in the region.

The Power of Collaborative Innovation
Looking to the future, it becomes readily apparent that complexity, competing interests and scarce resources remain the greatest obstacles to progress on the global agenda in the absence of greater leadership and global stewardship. It is in this challenging context that the World Economic Forum will highlight "The Power of Collaborative Innovation" as the principal theme for the Annual Meeting 2008 in Davos.
The focus on collaboration and innovation underscores the opportunity to leverage the Forum’s multistakeholder model so that platforms can be built for like-minded communities to initiate necessary changes together. The Annual Meeting 2008 programme will be based on the following five conceptual pillars:

Business
Competing While Collaborating

Economics and Finance
Addressing Economic Insecurity

Geopolitics
Aligning Interests across Divides

Science and Technology
Exploring Nature’s New Frontiers

Values and Society
Understanding Future Shifts

Second session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

Pursuant to article 63 of the Convention, a Conference of the States Parties to the Convention was established to improve the capacity of and cooperation between States Parties to achieve the objectives set forth in this Convention and to promote and review its implementation.

Are you satisfied that your corporate ethics and compliance practices meet the latest anti-corruption requirements? C5’s Anti-Corruption conference is the only comprehensive conference in Europe to bring you in-depth coverage of the best practices and strategies for assessing your anti-corruption measures to prevent failures that might lead to damaging and costly enforcement actions. Attend this landmark conference and network with many leading Compliance Officers, Lawyers, Forensic Accountants and other specialists in the field of anti-corruption.

Plus as a Transparency International member you are entitled to an exclusive 15% discount off the conference fee! To claim your exclusive Transparency International member 15% discount, make sure you quote reference 708L08.TI when booking.

The 2008 International Aid + Trade event brings together the global humanitarian relief, aid and development community to embrace the challenge of integrated aid and development. The event features a range of interactive exhibits where providers of the latest humanitarian relief goods and services will come together with leading agencies and organisations administering relief in the field, bringing the challenge of humanitarian relief to life. NGO and UN pavilions give UN agencies and NGOs the opportunity to meet other agencies, decision makers, visitors and businesses.

Speakers from United Nations organisations, aid agencies, NGOs, governments, business and academia will participate in the moderated workshop sessions to discuss the complex international relief issues, share knowledge about how to improve international disaster relief efforts and foster relationships for improved communication and coordination.

This important Fourth Global Congress is being hosted by the WCO and Dubai Customs. Along with the WCO, the Congress is convened by Interpol, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) through its BASCAP initiative, the International Trademark Association (INTA) and the International Security Management Association (ISMA).

The conference aims at putting concepts of corruption from the social sciences in a historical perspective. Thereby it attemps to inaugurate a dialogue between current juridical, sociological, politological and economic research into corruption on the one hand and historical studies in corruption on the other. The main objective is an interdisciplinary pooling, joint reformulation and examination of definitions and models of corruption across the disciplines. These debates as well as the theoretical, analytical and empirical investigations are situated within the framework of two key models: one refers to the possible functionality of corruption mechanims, in that the latter may have been conducive to social progress and may have enhanced the integration of particular groups; the other model is based on the assumption of the inherent dysfunctionality of corruption and therefore suggests its strict criminalisation and banning from social interaction. The final discussion is supposed to illuminate, to what extent the grey zone between legality and illegality or the borderline, beyond which certain practices are labelled as corrupt in the first place, can satisfactorily be captured in a more general model.

This 2008 Berlin Conference will be the eighth event in the series of annual European Conferences on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, and the first International Conference of the Social-Ecological Research Programme. It particularly targets at bringing together trandisciplinary research results on long-term policies from various fields. It will provide ample opportunities to advance social-ecological research into international debates and to discuss future perspectives of this field.

With contributions from the TI chapter in Lithuania, this conference deals with European cooperation on fighting corruption. Representatives from new and old EU member countries present their anti-corruption strategies and discuss the benefits and challenges of harmonisation.

The Carter Center international conference on The Right to Public Information will reflect on the successes and lessons learned over the past decade in the access to public information (ATI) field and consider the emerging issues. Though there have been great advances, much in the world has changed and there remain a number of challenges including countries without laws, patchy implementation, and some continued resistance. In convening representatives from all the key stakeholder groups-- governments, donors, media, civil society, private sector, and academia - - the conference will critically examine the progress and begin to identify the necessary steps and measures to ensure the effective creation and implementation of universal access to public information.

The present Public-Private Roundtable will bring together senior executives from developing countries, the financial services industry and official donor agencies – bilateral and multilateral – to discuss innovations in mobilising private development finance.

The Roundtable will constitute a meeting point of two discussions: the OECD Global Forum on Development and the World Economic Forum’s Financing for Development Initiative. In line with the 2002 Monterrey Consensus, both initiatives are currently generating recommendations for more effective development finance ahead, of the UN Follow-up Conference on Financing for Development, to be held in Doha, Qatar, in late 2008.

Currently One World is one of the leading festivals dealing with the issue of human rights in Europe and belongs among the founding members of the Association of Human Rights Festivals, which joins together 17 festivals from throughout the entire world.

One World helps to provide much more complex and balanced information and offers the possibility for deeper understanding of the connections and the important foreign-political and social themes.

Building on the unprecedented success of the inaugural summit in Copenhagen, this event focuses on the detection, prevention & investigation of fraud & corruption. It brings together (as a team the disciplines of corporate audit, security, fraud prevention, corporate responsibility & risk management. Hibis are advisors to this unique & interactive programme. Audit directors & fraud experts from leading companies will share direct experiences, successes, & hot tips - gained from managing recent projects involving fraud & corruption. A unique format & timely topics in a relaxed setting will make this the ideal opportunity to tackle fraud management in a hassle-free environment. Keynote speakers include Maina Kiai, Chairman, Kenya National Human Rights Commission; Professor Alan Doig at the Teesside Business School, University of Teesside. Case studies by Heads of Internal Audit at Coors Brewers (UK) & Ministry of Defence (UK). Finally, don't miss your chance to question & meet the ultimate anonymous whistle-blower – 'Mr Cassandra'. It was only in the end that people believed 'Mr Cassandra' was telling the truth about a multi million dollar fraud and corruption scandal & imminent collapse of a major business.

Meeting convened by United Nations secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to advance the Millennium Development Goals for Africa. Participation of the OECD Secretary-General. New York, USA.

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.

Sustaining Momentum and Responsible Growth

At their 2007 Summit, the G8 nations signalled an unprecedented interest in corporate responsibility. Not only did they encourage the business sector to use specific Corporate Responsibility instruments, such as the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the UN Global Compact, but they committed to establishing a high level dialogue with leading emerging economies on the subject. What are the emerging governmental expectations of the business sector, and how far are these fair and reasonable?

Is government trying to play 'catch-up' with a sector that is already leading across a broad front?

If so, what support for Corporate Responsibility is it most important for government to give at this point?

This high-level conference is now in its fifth successive year as a joint venture between Chatham House and FTSE Group. The two day event will examine the latest thinking on the responsibilities of business, government and civil society and assess how far corporate responsibility has become a normal part of everyday business.

Speakers from government, international organisations, finance, business, and not for profit and academic organisations.

The United Nations General Assembly designated 22 March of each year as the World Day for Water by adopting a resolution.This world day for water was to be observed starting in 1993, in conformity with the recommendations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development contained in chapter 18 (Fresh Water Resources) of Agenda 21.

States were invited to devote the Day to implement the UN recommendations and set up concrete activities as deemed appropriate in the national context.

The executive committee meeting of the IAACA in 2008 will be held by the ministry of justice of Azerbaijan.

The establishment of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA) was initiated at the High-Level Political Conference for the Purpose of Signing the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in Merida, Mexico in December 2003, and has since received enthusiastic support among the various anti-corruption authorities in many countries and international organizations, as well as a special assistance of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) at Vienna.

The American Conference Institute and The Canadian Institute have assembled an exceptional faculty of seasoned corporate ethics and compliance executives, attorneys and government officials, who will provide the latest information on:

• Resources, tools and techniques leading companies are using to implement and maintain value-based anti-corruption compliance programs
• How senior management can credibly instill a compliance ethic
• How to balance the need for internal controls with the expectations of customers in their target markets
• What to do when your company is proceeding in the face of a known risk involving a commercial intermediary
• Determining when family or business relationships with foreign officials are too close
• Risks and concerns when the joint-venture partner is a governmental entity
• Participants will also receive a comprehensive set of written materials prepared by the speakers for the conference.

The Global Philanthropy Forum Conference is intended for individuals who have made a significant commitment to philanthropy, and executives from private, public, and corporate foundations.

Through conversations among elders and emerging leaders, donors and social investors gather at the Global Philanthropy Forum’s 7th Annual Conference to build alliances and spread the ideas necessary to promote human rights, advance global health, manage natural resources, spread economic opportunity and stop mass atrocities.

The Forum will comprise of numerous policy dialogue sessions which will bring together Bank and Fund staff, CSO representatives, government officials, and others to discuss important issues which will be addressed during the 2008 Spring Meetings.

Some of the panel topics under consideration include:

• Presentation and discussion of an assessment study: "Strategies for Engaging Civil Society in World Bank Training Programs."
• Discussion of the World Bank Group draft Strategic Framework on Climate Change.
• Discussion of the draft Strategic Framework on the World Bank Group Engagement with Civil Society.
• Workshop on odious/illegitimate debt.
• Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

IIR’s series of fraud conferences have established themselves as the must attend events for fraud fighters with topical streams, expert speakers and practical case studies. This tradition is continued with the 2008 Fraud Europe conference in Brussels which features presentations from Europol, Eurojust, Eurostar, the Fraud Advisory Panel and many more.

Fraud Europe features presentations on attack methods, recent fraud trends, the latest thinking on loss prevention, risk management and information security, plus updates on the legal implications of investigations, whilst introducing strategies for enhancing cooperation across Europe.

This workshop is meant to be a forum open to both academics and practitioners in the field of anti-corruption/fraud in Europe and abroad, where first-hand experiences and knowledge of the role, powers and activities of anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) can be exchanged with a view to further integrated initiatives and policy research. The event is meant to assess ways of empowering ACAs based on a three-pronged strategy:

• to promote the idea that institutional empowerment can be achieved through successful statutory reforms, sound management and agenda-setting strategies, and inter-institutional coalition-building;
• to discuss different ways of strengthening ACAs’ repressive capacity by closing the sophistication gap, devising and managing successful systems of complaints, conducting regular risk assessments, and building lasting and reliable intersectoral cooperation (coalition building);
• to assist ACAs building a preventive capacity.

This specialist event will focus on Development of Trade Finance in Ukraine and CIS countries with presentations on: development of trade finance and factoring in Ukraine; support for international and intra-regional trade and co-financing with the EBRD.

Key topics for discussion will include:

• Sustainable Water Initiative
• Sustainable Energy Initiative
• Adapting to Climate Change
• Sustainable Agriculture

For each topic, the discussion will focus on the challenges in the region, and the work being undertaken by EBRD in partnership with the donor agencies.

This Annual Plenary will bring to a close the second year of activities of the OECD Global Forum on Development. Participants will reflect, in particular, on the results of the Informal Experts' Workshop on Ownership in Practice (27-28 September 2007) and the Policy Workshop on Scaling Up at Country Level (11 December 2007). Participants will also be asked to share their views on how ownership should be addressed at the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (Accra, 2-4 September 2008).

As last year, the Plenary will be held back-to-back with the annual High-Level Meeting of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC).

Following the Plenary, the third year of the Global Forum will be devoted to discussing the most effective instruments of development finance, particularly instruments of public-private collaboration.

The World Economic Forum on Africa is designed to engage leaders in a brainstorming exercise to examine the current changing global landscape and determine what are the major “drivers of change” that the region needs to be most prepared for in the coming year. The 2008 programme explores the magnitude of the gap between Africa’s intractable challenges and its unparalleled opportunities. The Forum will discuss what business can do, in collaboration with others, to improve the state of the region.

A lecture by Benjamin W. Heineman
Ben Heineman is a powerful voice in the areas of global governance and corporate social responsibility. He is Senior Counsel at WilmerHale and former Senior Vice President and General Counsel for General Electric as well as a senior fellow at Harvard University. Mr. Heineman is a leading expert who writes and conducts research on a wide variety of public and private sector issues, including the global anti-corruption movement, corporate citizenship and social responsibility, corporate governance, corporations and public policy.

Press conference will be held to launch the study on Corruption risks in the Business Sector. Besides describing corruption mechanisms the research contains policy recommendations to counter corruption risks. The study is a second part of the National Integrity System Country Study launched in December 2007. Guest speakers include Zoltán Nagy (Chair, Competition Authority), Jermyn Brooks (TI-S), Miklós Marschall (TI-S).
Fair Play” teams of Transparency International Hungary is taking part in a Marathon Relay on 8th June 2008 in order to attract attention to the results of the study on corruption in the business sector and the negative impact of corruption on competitiveness. Participants include representatives of foreign embassies, Hungarian researchers and businesspeople.

The CIVICUS World Assembly is a forum for international civil society representatives to get together, exchange ideas, experiences and build strategies for a just world.

The overall theme of the 8th World Assembly will be Acting Together for a Just World, with a focus theme of People, Participation and Power.

People, Participation and Power involves people coming together to access, engage and participate in the various spheres of governance at the local, national and international levels. The 2008 programme will include plenaries, mini-plenaries, learning exchanges – such as a visit to the Scottish Parliament – workshops, film screenings and networking opportunities.

With the occasion of the international launch of Global Corruption Report 2008, TI Greece organised in 25th June an event with subject "Water and Corruption: putting lives, livelihoods and sustainable development at risk", dealing with the outcomes of GCR 2008 under a Greek context.

The participants were two academic professors with a background on Water Resources Management, one representative from a leading NGO in the field of environment and the Vice President of TI Greece. The discussion coordinated a notable journalist.

Transparency International and the United Nations Development Programme cordially invite you to the launch of Transparency International´s Global Corruption Report 2008: Corruption in the Water Sector.

More than 1 billion people live with inadequate access to safe drinking water, with dramatic consequences for lives, livelihoods and development. Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report 2008 demonstrates in its thematic section that corruption is a cause and catalyst for this water crisis, which is likely to be further exacerbated by climate change. Corruption affects all aspects of the water sector, from water resources management to drinking water services, irrigation and hydropower. In this timely report, scholars and professionals document the impact of corruption in the sector, with case studies from all around the world offering practical suggestions for reform.

The intensive advanced course held by the CEU summer university addresses critically the challenges of integrity reform and strategic corruption control. Drawing on interdisciplinary academic perspectives and lessons learned from practice, this course represents one of the few targeted, applied and yet conceptually grounded efforts currently available internationally for the analysis of corruption and anti-corruption. Topics covered include cross-cutting issues such as definitions, measurements and research methodology, and also distinct areas such as access to information, fiscal transparency, and risk assessment and management.
This SUN course will include intensive Policy Labs devoted to the in-depth analysis of some of these issues that will allow for further specialization and expert discussion in a small group format.

The World Justice Forum will serve as the “Founders’ Conference” for the World Justice Project. The Forum will bring together hundreds of leaders from diverse disciplines around the world. Together, they will launch a new multidisciplinary, multinational movement to strengthen the rule of law.
Invitees include past and current heads of state, presidents of multilateral institutions, CEOs of multinational corporations, labor leaders, and directors of key nongovernmental organizations from 112 countries.

The Group of Eight (G8) Summit is an annual meeting attended by the leaders of the eight countries, namely, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK, and the USA, and the President of the European Commission. The main themes of this year's Summit are:

• Environment and Climate Change
• Development and Africa
• World Economy
• Political issues including Non-proliferation

Bringing together people who have a vision for the role of business, in seeking to meet human needs in the context of a sustainable world.

Conference Information

Theme: Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy (TIGE): Cultivating Knowledge - Generating Action
The session themes for each day of the conference are:
1. Principled values-driven decision-making (Bringing trust and integrity into all relationships - personally, at work and in business)
2. Work for all in the 21st century (In particular looking at issues facing those who are at the beginning of their professional careers)
3. Financing a secure world (Working for trust & integrity and looking at the impact of global corruption that is a major cause of on-going poverty)
4. Generating Action (A whole day dedicated to generating actions from the above sessions)

The International Society of Business Economics and Ethics (ISBEE) is holding its 2008 World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. The main theme for this year's congress is ‘Global Fairness – Local Integrity’. It aims to increase awareness of ethics and fairness in international trade, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility.

Daunting challenges confront the 21st century, from economic under-development, bad governance and global warming to terrorism and cultural conflicts. Underlying these challenges is a deep human insecurity which is felt not only in the developing world. How do we understand this insecurity and how can we give content to the great aim of human security? How to articulate its foundations? How to give it practical expression? These are among the questions that motivate this first Caux Forum for Human Security. To find a preventive strategy that could tackle the root causes of insecurity and help manage conflicts and save millions of lives will require unprecedented trust and collaboration among all nations and actors. We need a truly global synergy that gives every person an opportunity to contribute to peace and human security. The conference will explore what it will take to create such synergy.

The first international CSR Conference in Malaysia: “International Corporate Social Responsibility Conference – Where Responsibility Meets Bottomline” in recognition of Malaysia’s fast growth and leadership in CSR.

The World Water Week in Stockholm promotes the exchange of views and experiences between the scientific, business, policy and civil society communities, thereby advancing the water, environment, health, livelihood and poverty reduction agendas.

The 2008 World Water Week in Stockholm will scrutinise progress and prospects in the efforts to build a clean and healthy world. Special attention will be devoted this year to the sanitation challenge and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal target on sanitation.

The objective of the XIIIth World Water Congress is to enhance the world’s knowledge and raise global consciousness of the impact of global changes on water resources. The Congress contributes to the study of our planet’s water resources by bringing together wide-interest participation, conferences and communications. It is an important occasion on a global scale for open dialogue between public and private partners, between users and decision makers and between developing, emerging and developed countries.

In September 2008, ministers from over 100 countries, heads of bilateral and multilateral development agencies, donor organizations, and civil society organizations from around the world will gather in Accra for the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. Their common objective is to help developing countries and marginalized people in their fight against poverty by making aid more transparent, accountable and results-oriented. The Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness will:

• review progress in improving aid effectiveness
• broaden the dialogue to newer actors
• chart a course for continuing international action on aid effectiveness

The annual Global Economic Symposium (GES) constitutes an international forum for leading policy makers, business executives, academics and other representatives of civil communities to formulate innovative, global practical solutions for the world's most important economic problems.

The Global Economic Symposium aims to identify global challenges, examine their policy and business implications, and formulate concrete action responses to them.

Corruption is the single most important reason why many sensible reforms fail in developing economies. What are the most promising means of de-corrupting institutions – in government administration, security forces, and business?

A day rarely goes by without a corporate corruption story hitting the headlines and the need for a well-defined ethics and compliance programme has never been clearer. The UK government is now under increasing pressure to prosecute corruption cases, a new Bribery Bill is to be announced this Autumn and the Serious Fraud Office’s decision not to pursue the BAE Systems case is under continued scrutiny.
Attend Legal IQ’s Best Practices for Preventing Corruption & Bribery and you will leave knowing how to protect the reputation and share value of your company and safeguard your colleagues:

• Interpret the implications of the UK’s upcoming Corruption Bill. The SEC and Transparency International explain how other jurisdictions are implementing the OECD’s standards on corruption and how the FCPA is being applied to European business practices
• Satisfy all your stakeholders by incorporating your anti-corruption programme with your corporate governance objectives
• Develop effective training programmes for colleagues, clients and suppliers to ensure all stakeholders understand and adhere to your ethical standards, as rolled out at Northrop Grumman and De Beers
• Successfully handle an intrusive investigation situation with best practice from BAE Systems
• Operating under a Deferred Prosecution Agreement: How Monsanto Company adapted their practices following prosecution by the Department of Justice

This year's Summer School of UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning is on the theme "Transparency, accountability and anti-corruption measures in education". It targets the francophone community, and will be held in French.

Multinational companies facing rapid growth in multiple jurisdictions often experience a wide variety of cultural, legal, financial and accounting complexities, along with new obligations and responsibilities, as they navigate the global marketplace. Corruption is one of the serious risks companies engaging in international business are exposed to.
C5 Anti-Corruption Boot Camp provides an excellent working knowledge of international anti-corruption framework and strategies needed to successfully build, implement and monitor an efficient anti-corruption compliance programme. C5 has brought together an international panel of senior officers, in house counsels from leading companies with the most highly rated compliance programmes, and leading lawyers and advisors.

The Latin American Regional Conference: “Commitment and Cooperation in the Fight Against Corruption and International Bribery”, shall take place on the 29th and 30th of September in Mexico City, having been hosted by the Mexican government and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with the collaboration of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the Organization of American States (OAE).

The conference is focused mainly towards public or civil servants of the three government levels, as well to all those business-persons, attorneys, accountants and civil society organizations interested in the topic of anti-corruption.

Session topics include:

• Global and regional challenges in combating bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions
• International and regional co-operation for mutual legal assistance and extradition
• Fighting bribery in public procurement
• The OECD’s work against corruption
• Corporate liability in the fight against transnational bribery
• Enhancing the efficacy of law enforcement mechanisms to fight foreign bribery in Latin America
• Detecting transnational bribery through whistleblowers and the media

The annual programme "The Economics of Corruption - A University Training in Good Governance and Reform" offers training in anti-corruption for practitioners, researchers and students. An analysis of political, economic and organisational incentives allows participants to obtain a profound understanding of the forces that are at play. Survey techniques and statistical analysis confront theory with data. Interactive tools such as games, poster presentations and case studies involve participants and make them acquainted with today's challenges. Prof. Johann Graf Lambsdorff and his team have spearheaded models for reform that seek to effectively contain corruption while minimising the adverse effects of penalties and regulation. Participants are introduced into this body of research.

This international course is the kick-off event for a Master's Program at the University of Passau. Students who enroll in the Master in International Economics and Business can pick a focus in "Governance, Institutions and Anti-corruption".

Anti-corruption enforcement around the globe is continuing to heat up. The US currently has 50 investigations under way and in Europe there are now more than a 100. This increased focus has added to the urgency for many companies to get their anti-corruption, compliance and ethics programmes working effectively.

For years, research at the Institute of Management has focussed on Corporate Governance (CG). Since CSR is closely related to the field of CG, the conference is meant to support and extend the projects carried out by the institute so far. Additionally, it is intended to anchor the research at the faculty of economic science in the international scientific landscape. Scientists, practitioners, politicians as well as representatives of government and non-government organizations (NGO) are brought together and given the opportunity for discussion.

The Conference will gather some 250 participants representing TI National Chapters and National Contacts, Individual Members and staff from the International Secretariat. Enhancing the impact of the TI Movement as a whole, and the election for the Chair, Vice Chair and other Board members, will be on the agenda. The meeting will be preceded by regional and other TI meetings in the days before.

Come together with the leading experts and practitioners on governance, corruption and transparency at the 13th edition of the world’s leading International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC), as we survey the role of corruption and governance in the crucial social, political, economic and environmental questions that will define the quality of life for people across the globe, today and tomorrow.

ISAR’s annual sessions are among the largest expert meetings hosted by UNCTAD, and serve as a focal point within the UN system for issues of corporate transparency and accounting.
The main item of this year’s session will be a review of practical implementation issues of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Other issues include corporate responsibility reporting and corporate governance disclosure.

Fighting against corruption and promoting gender equality are vital forces when it comes to effectivity of development cooperation.
The aim of the workshop is to overcome the debate on whether women are more affected by corruption then men, or whether women might be less corrupt then men. Rather, the workshop intends to open avenues for effectively integrating gender-related aspects into anti-corruption efforts and vice-versa. Results are expected to be fed back into the practice of development cooperation and into relevant international processes such as the UNCAC working groups.

The Conference will bring together parliamentarians from around the world to focus on the role of parliamentarians in the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) and its effective implementation and oversight.

Key Objectives:

• Follow up on the resolutions passed in the last GOPAC Global Conference with a look to approve a continuing plan of action for GOPAC and its chapters working with other organizations interested in fighting corruption.
• Provide a valuable learning event for parliamentarians by linking peers and experts, and establish an agenda for action.
• Showcase the considerable success of ARPAC, but also comparable work in other GOPAC regions.

The 5th Annual European Economic Crime Conference is part of the 11th Euro Finance Week and will be held in Frankfurt on 19 November 2008. This Public Private Partnership is expected to generate a new dynamic for the conference and thus lead to fruitful discussion. This approach will also add an extra dimension to the interaction between law enforcement and regulatory authorities on the one hand and the financial sector on the other.
Three subjects from a wide range of topics of common interest to both parties were chosen for panel discussions during the conference

• alternative investment instruments and their vulnerability to abuse through fraud and for money laundering purposes
• corruption in business practices and the corporate criminal liability that it might entail
• the 3rd EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive introducing the concept of risk-based assessment

The Programme offers an outstanding opportunity for leaders from business, NGO’s, and government to develop an advanced understanding of how, through its mainstream activities business can contribute to improving the quality of life of the world’s poorest communities. The seminar will examine the context of global poverty and why it is increasingly perceived as a business issue. A central theme of the Programme is to consider ways in which corporations can work effectively with donor organizations, host governments and civil society organisations towards eradicating poverty.

Launched in 2000, the Integrity Awards honour the bravery of individuals and organisations around the globe whose efforts are making a distinct difference in curbing corruption. The programme's goal is to give greater recognition to the efforts of journalists, civil society activists, government and corporate whistleblowers who work to investigate and unmask corruption, often at great personal risk.