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CPI 2019: Global Highlights
CPI 2019 reveals that a majority of countries are showing little to no improvement in tackling corruption. More than two-thirds of countries score below 50, with an average score of just 43.
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CPI 2019: Middle East and North Africa
With the same average score of 39 as last year, there is little progress in improving control of corruption in the Middle East and North Africa region.
CPI 2019: Trouble at the Top
Integrity at home does not always translate into integrity abroad, and multiple scandals in 2019 demonstrated that transnational corruption is often facilitated, enabled and perpetuated by seemingly clean countries.
CPI 2019: Sub-Saharan Africa
As the lowest-scoring region on the CPI, with an average of 32, Sub-Saharan Africa’s performance paints a bleak picture of inaction against corruption.
CPI 2019: Western Europe & European Union
Fourteen of the top 20 countries in this year’s CPI are from Western Europe and the European Union (EU), including nine countries from the EU alone.
CPI 2019: Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Eastern Europe and Central Asia is the second-lowest performing region on the CPI, with an average score of 35. The region is struggling with a range of issues from limited separation of powers to opaque political party financing.
CPI 2019: Asia Pacific
A regional average of 45, after many consecutive years of an average score of 44, illustrates general stagnation across the Asia Pacific.
CPI 2019: Americas
With an average score of 43 for the fourth consecutive year, the Americas region fails to make significant progress in the fight against corruption.
Building political integrity to stamp out corruption: three steps to cleaner politics
Political integrity means exercising political power consistently in the public interest.
What people think: corruption in the Middle East & North Africa
Momentum has been building against corruption for years in the Middle East and North Africa. From Lebanon and Sudan, where millions of people took to the streets earlier this year to speak out against their governments, to the Arab revolutions that toppled corrupt leaders nearly a decade ago, people are fed up with rampant corruption across the region.
Wasta: How personal connections are denying citizens opportunities and basic services
In many Arab countries the use of personal connections, or “wasta” in Arabic, is a common practice and a social norm. People use their family or social contacts to skip the line and gain quicker and better access to basic goods and services. How much you can increase the speed and quality of your service often depends on who you know – the higher the better, of course.
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Sextortion: Middle East and North Africa
Sextortion is one of the most significant forms of gendered corruption and although women’s rights have advanced unevenly across the Middle East and North Africa, positive momentum has been building in the region over the last decade.
Index on Censorship, Reporters Without Borders UK and Transparency International UK urge Azerbaijan to lift journalist’s travel ban
Azerbaijan authorities should lift a travel ban against award-winning investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, UK-based rights groups urged on 15 January.
Call for full investigation into reports of high-level corruption in Zambia’s illicit mukula trade
Following reports that the President of Zambia, his daughter and several high-ranking politicians are allegedly involved in the illicit trade in mukula wood, Transparency International calls for all competent authorities in Zambia to fully investigate the allegations and prosecute wrongdoing regardless of the rank or status of the accused.
Why we are not engaging with the G20’s civil society process in 2020
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia regularly arrests and prosecutes human rights defenders, censors free speech, limits free movement, and tortures and mistreats detained journalists and activists. As leading civil society organisations present in most countries around the world, we cannot participate in a process that seeks to give international legitimacy to a state that provides virtually no space for civil society, and where independent civil society voices are not tolerated.
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Corruption Perceptions Index 2019
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International Anti-Corruption Day 2018
Corruption impacts the poorest and most vulnerable in society the hardest. But when ordinary people fight back against corruption, they can make a real difference.
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Risky Business: Europe’s Golden Visa Programmes
The citizenship- and residency-by investment programmes, commonly known as golden visas, offered by some EU Member States have repeatedly sparked controversy. A joint report by Transparency International and Global Witness analyses these schemes.
Global Corruption Barometer 2017
The Global Corruption Barometer is the only worldwide public opinion survey on views and experiences of corruption.
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