Other documents
Here you can link to different papers, studies and press releases about Anti-Corruption Conventions in the Americas.
- Inter-American Convention against Corruption
- United Nations Convention against Corruption
- OECD Convention against Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions
- Press Releases
Inter-American Convention against Corruption
- Opinion Editorial Huguette Labelle in El Nuevo Herald, 29 March 2006: "The future of the Americas depends on the anti-corruption fight"
- TI´s Recommendations at the IV meeting of the Follow-up Mechanism Expertes Committee
- Recommendations of TI to the XXXV Regular Session of the OAS General Assembly
- The OAS Convention was opened to signature 9 year ago
- Follow-Up to the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption: A Regional Initiative of TI in the Americas
- Implementation of the Summit of the Americas: A Progress Report
United Nations Convention against Corruption
OECD Convention against Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions
- TI calls on OECD Members to enforce the OECD Anti- Bribery Convention and to ratify the UN Convention against Corruption
- Fighting Corruption: What Role for Civil Society? The Experience of the OECD
- Initial Proposed Framework for Private Sector, Trade Union and Civil Society Consultations in Phase 2 of OECD Monitoring Process
Press Releases
- 27 April 2005: TI launches innovative new conventions website
4.1 Inter-American Convention against Corruption
- 3 November 2005: Governments in the Americas must eliminate corruption to create jobs and reduce poverty
- 31 October 2005: To the Foreign Minister of Argentina: You are mistaken. The fight against corruption is fundamental to creating jobs
- 29 September 2005: Anti-Corruption Assessments reveal secrecy as a continuing challenge in the Americas
- 27 September 2005: New OAS Secretary General pledges action on corruption under democratic charter
- 9 September 2005: The governments of the Americas must make genuine commitments in the fight against corruption
- 7 June 2005: OAS must fulfil commitments to anti-corruption convention, says Transparency International
- 1 June 2002: OAS member states urged to speed up review of Inter-American Convention Against Corruption
- 5 June 2001: Transparency International chapters in the Americas endorse the OAS follow-up mechanism to the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption
4.2 United Nations Convention against Corruption
- 16 September 2005: First global convention against corruption to enter into force
- 8 December 2003:UN launches new global convention against graft on December 9th, henceforth International Anti-Corruption Day
- 29 September 2003: UN Convention should reinstate corruption in political party funding as mandatory offence, says TI
- 11 August 2003: US weakens UN Convention by blocking measures tackling political corruption
- 24 July 2003: UN Anti-Corruption Convention in danger of missing the mark on political corruption, warns Transparency International
- 16 July 2003: UN Anti-Corruption Convention must target private sector bribery and political party corruption and allow for the extradition of corrupt officials
- 19 June 2003: UN Convention must take steps to counter 'high-level corruption and the levels of impunity that facilitate it', says Paris Declaration
- 21 March 2003: Unaccountable governments 'are threatening to derail UN Anti-Corruption Convention'
- 11 March 2003: UN Convention must criminalise private sector corruption," says Transparency International
- 28 January 2002: The intervention of the UN adds pressure on the Moroccan government to release TI Integrity Award winner Captain Mustapha Adib
- 18 January 2002: Monitoring is the key to the success of a UN Convention Against Corruption
- 31 May 2001: A UN Convention is no substitute for anti-corruption programmes at the national level
4.3 OECD Convention against Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions
- 7 March 2005: TI Report Finds Fifteen OECD Countries Making a "Promising Start" in Enforcing Anti-Bribery Laws But Calls for Accelerated Enforcement
- 16 October 2002: Transparency International elects new board and appeals to rich countries to enforce OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
- 16 March 2001: Transparency International endorses UK efforts to implement OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
- 6 December 2000: OECD agrees to clamp down on bribery in export credit transactions Transparency International welcomes "clear signal to private sector"
- 20 July 2000: G8 summit host Japan urged to implement International Anti-Corruption Convention TI deplores "small group" holding back effective implementation
- 16 February 1999: Americas urged to implement anti-corruption convention Momentum of international action must not be lost
- 11 January 1999:OECD and Transparency International Publish Directory of Anti-Corruption Programmes in Central & Eastern Europe
- 9 December 1998:Bribery of foreign officials will become a crime in February
- 27 October 1998: Transparency International USA hails implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery convention
- 5 November 1997: OECD Anti-Corruption Convention leaves critical questions still open
- 27 May 1997: OECD: Important Milestone in Curbing International Bribery
- 21 May 1997: Business leaders call on OECD Ministers to "act against international corruption"
- 23 May 1996: Moves at OECD to Counter Business Corruption Draw Praise
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