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TI speeches & articles

On this page you can download speeches, articles and editorials by TI representatives. The selection of documents follows TI’s global priorities and main thematic issues as well as its regional working fields.

General anti-corruption topics

       

Huguette Labelle, Chair

30 January 2008

Statement at the Conference of the States Parties

Address to the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption

Cobus de Swardt, Managing Director

10 December 2007

Statement

Elders' Event to mark Human Rights Day, Cape Town, South Africa

Huguette Labelle, Chair

06 December 2007

Statement at the press conference

Global Corruption Barometer 2007, official launch in Berlin

Huguette Labelle,
Chair

17 Sep 2006

Partnerships to Combat Corruption: Rising to the Challenge

Panel discussion at the International Monetary Fund/World Bank Group/Board of Governors Annual Meetings

Huguette Labelle,
Chair

11 December 2006

Statement

Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) Dead Sea, Jordan

Barbara Ann Clay,
Director of Communications

17 May 2006

How can communications change the perception and reality of corruption in donor & recipient countries?

Speech at the 2006 annual meeting of the Informal Network of DAC Heads of Information/Communication

Huguette Labelle,
Chair

9-12 Apr 2006

Cultivating entrenched integrity

Speech at the World Ethics Forum, "Leadership, Ethics and Integrity in Public Life", University of Oxford

Peter Eigen, Founder and former Chairman

28 Nov 2005

Transparency made visible: Making mining and oil companies accountable is a first step towards halting exploitation

Comment, Guardian

Peter Eigen, Founder and former Chairman

25 May 2005

Civil Society and Participatory Governance: Challenges & Prospects, “Capacity and Responsibility of Civil Society”

Speech, 6th Global Forum on Reinventing Government

Peter Eigen, Founder and former Chairman

21 Feb 2005

Combating corruption: bribery stunts economic development

Article for WISU

Private Sector

Cobus de Swardt
Transparency International (TI) Managing Director

28 April 2008

Statement TI Promoting Revenue Transparency launch

 

Huguette Labelle, Chair

21 Nov 2007

Statement on the OECD Convention anniversary

Tenth anniversary celebration of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

Jermyn Brooks,
Director of Private Sector Programmes

3 Oct 2007

Value orientation from a business perspective

Discussion at IMB Institute of Management Forum 2007

Frank Vogl,
Member of TI's Board of Directors

1 Sept 2007

Global Corruption: Applying experience and research to meet a mounting crisis

Article in the Journal of Center for Business Ethics

David Nussbaum, former CEO

24 Feb 2006

Presentation to the Global Council on Business Conduct

Conference

Peter Eigen, Founder and former Chairman

15 Apr 2005

Bangladesh: Politics and Business between Corruption and Development

DW Bonn

David Nussbaum, former CEO

20 Dec 2004

Why businesses must face up to corruption

Article for CA Magazine

Poverty & Development

Cobus de Swardt
Transparency International (TI) Managing Director

24 April 2008

Better governance and anti-corruption as pillars of the fight against poverty and climate change

Speaking to Group of Eight (G8) government and global NGO representatives

Professor Toru Umeda
TI Japan board member

 

Towards strengthening a global anti-corruption regime

Spoke of corruption as a cause of deforestation and illegal trafficking of endangered species

David Nussbaum, former CEO

Jan 2005

Corruption in disaster relief efforts

Article for the RSA Journal

Health

David Nussbaum, former CEO

2006

Corruption in health: what every policymaker should know

Commonwealth Ministers Reference Book

David Nussbaum, former CEO

26 Mar 2003

Poverty, Political Corruption and Healthcare

Address to the Global Medical Forum II Zurich, Switzerland

Access to information

David Nussbaum, former CEO

03 May 2006

Dead silence: when journalists are muzzled, corruption goes unchecked

World Press Freedom Day Statement

Good Governance

David Nussbaum, former CEO

1 Nov 2004

Strengthening Good Governance at the National Level

UNCTAD Expert meeting on Good Governance in Investment Promotion, Geneva, Switzerland

Africa and the Middle East

Casey Kelso, Director of African and Middle East Department

7 Mar 2006

Promoting the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in the Middle East

Speech, Amman, Jordan

Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria

7 Nov 2003

Nigeria: From Pond of Corruption to Island of Integrity

Lecture on the 10th Anniversary of Transparency International, Berlin, Germany

Americas

Ximena Salazar
Regional Conventions Programme

03 June 2007

TI's recommendations to the OAS General Assembly to increase transparency and accountability
Text (Spanish)
Video

Speech held at the 37th OAS General Assembly

Ximena Salazar
Regional Conventions Programme

04 June 2006

Diálogo entre los Jefes de Delegación, el Secretario General y los representantes de la sociedad civil

Speech held at the 36th OAS General Assembly

Huguette Labelle,
Chair

29 Mar 2006

"El futuro de América depende de la lucha contra la corrupción" (english version)

Opinion Editorial in El Nuevo Herald

Asia and Pacific

Ifterkhar Zaman,
TI Bangladesh

17 May 2006

Corruption in Bangladesh - a household survey

Speech at the 2006 annual meeting of the Informal Network of DAC Heads of Information/Communication

David Nussbaum, former CEO

Apr 2005

Interview: Five questions for David Nussbaum

Asia-Pacific Development Review (ADR)

Europe and Central Asia

Miklos Marschall, Director of Europe and Central Asia Department

Autumn 2004

Corruption, the judiciary and the rule of law

LIT online: Focus on early transition countries

Miklos Marschall, Director of Europe and Central Asia Department

30 Apr 2004

Interview

EuroActiv.com

Miklos Marschall, Director of Europe and Central Asia Department

27 Nov 2003

Europe's Corruption Gap

Opionion Editorial in the Wall Street Journal


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