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May 2007

interview of the month

Kamal Hossain, Senior Advocate to the Supreme Court of Bangladesh

This month Transparency Watch spoke with a renowned legal figure and author of the foreword to the Global Corruption Report 2007 on corruption in the judiciary, Dr. Kamal Hossain. Discussing the situation in Bangladesh, corruption in the judiciary and initiatives underway to clean it up, as well as Dr. Hossain’s personal experience with corruption, Transparency Watch gets to the heart of what motivates this Senior Advocate to Bangladesh’s Supreme Court to fight corruption at home and abroad. >> read more

spotlight story

Mexico: the traffickers’ judges

"Mexico: the traffickers’ judges" is an article excerpted from Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report 2006, focussing on corruption in the judiciary. Using a country - specific example, this article provides a glimpse of one of the different forms corruption can take in the judiciary, especially when dealing with organised crime. “Mexico: the traffickers judges” shows that it is not just bribery that may influence a verdict, but also violence or the threat of violence. >> read more

Anti-Corruption Work Around the World

corruption in the news

Transparency International (TI) launched nine country studies in April to analyse the implementation of anti-corruption laws. >> read more

There is increasing urgency for more effective combating of corruption in the Pacific, according to the Pacific chapters of Transparency International (TI). >> read more

Malaysia’s Transparency Perception Survey (MTPS) 2007, developed by TI’s chapter in Malaysia, was launched in Kuala Lumpur on 5 March. >> read more

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz resigns following a month-long call for resignation from international civil society organisations, governments and Bank staff. >> read more

Nigeria’s presidential election on 14 April was marked by violence, chaos and ballot-box fraud, according to international and domestic observers. >> read more

The 9 March suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary by the Pakistani government, “outraged lawyers and united the opposition." >> 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
“Corrupt and authoritarian African dictators and presidents, who once plundered the continent with impunity, are now finding themselves in unfamiliar territory, having to answer to criminal charges, ranging from genocide and corruption to graft.” >> read more