Poverty and development - As the World Bank holds its annual meetings in Washington D.C this week, Transparency International is calling for greater transparency, accountability and participation in the World Bank’s contribution to financing the 2030 Agenda.
Posted 14 Oct 2019
Media - "Fake news" has become a major threat to public trust in democracy and news media outlets over the past years. The fight against corruption is also affected.
Posted 08 Oct 2019
Access to information - Globally, approximately 120 countries have right to information laws. In some countries, these laws are top notch, but in others, the laws either don’t exist or need significant improvements. On International Right to Know Day, citizens are speaking out around the world to demand greater ...
Posted 26 Sep 2019
The Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) – Latin America & Caribbean highlights the disproportionate effect that corruption has on women and a significant lack of political integrity among government leaders.
Posted 23 Sep 2019
Surveys - The Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) – Latin America and the Caribbean is an important step for understanding how corruption affects women. For the first time, the GCB highlights data on sexual extortion, or sextortion, one of the most significant forms of gendered corruption. It also presents ...
Posted 23 Sep 2019
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Surveys - The Global Corruption Barometer - Latin America and the Caribbean reveals a worrying lack of political integrity, especially around electoral processes.
Posted 23 Sep 2019
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Surveys - Cases of corruption rarely seem to be out of the news in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the last few years alone, several high profile cases have sent shockwaves through the region. Momentum has been building against corruption in the region, giving hope that that after decades of inaction ...
Posted 23 Sep 2019
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Politics and government - Around the world, buying property is a favourite method for the corrupt to launder their ill-gotten gains. However, there are concrete measures that make it significantly more difficult for the corrupt to stash their dirty money in real estate.
Posted 06 Sep 2019
International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) - Designing 2030: Truth, Trust & Transparency
Posted 05 Sep 2019
Environment - When they deliberate over amendments to the global wildlife trade regime, CoP18 must address impunity for illegal timber trafficking in Africa as a matter of high priority.
Posted 16 Aug 2019
Transparency International submitted to the Financial Action Task Force this week a report that brings light to the many recent setbacks to Brazil’s anti-corruption legal and institutional framework. The report also includes recommendations to international organisations and Brazilian ...
Lebanon - The Lebanese Transparency Association - No Corruption (LTA), calls upon the Lebanese government to seriously address the demands of the Lebanese people, expressed in the demonstrations and protests currently taking place across Lebanon.
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Financial markets - In a new report, Transparency International says that authorities are too reliant on company ownership data held by banks, hindering efforts to investigate corruption and money laundering. The Financial Action Task Force (TAFT) should require countries to establish central registers of the real ...
Whistleblowing - Today’s formal adoption of the EU Whistleblowing Directive creates a two-year window of opportunity for EU Member States to take the global lead on protecting whistleblowers as they transpose the directive into national law.
Politics and government - Transparency International (TI) congratulates the speaker of the State Great Hural (Parliament) of Mongolia, Mr. G. Zandanshatar, for initiating crucial reforms to the country’s anti-corruption law and tabling a long-awaited debate on the draft law on whistleblower protection that was originally ...
Gender - Today, Transparency International called on national, regional and multilateral actors in Latin America and the Caribbean to prioritise and develop an integrated regional strategy for tackling gendered forms of corruption, including sexual extortion.
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Surveys - A new report from Transparency International reveals that more than half of all citizens in 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries think corruption is getting worse in their country and governments aren’t doing enough to tackle it. Corruption is a major concern for ordinary people; 85 per cent ...
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Surveys - A new survey on corruption in Latin America and the Caribbean, launched on 23 September, highlights citizens’ experience and views of sexual extortion and vote-buying.
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Politics and government - The independence of Indonesia’s main anti-corruption body, the Corruption Eradication Commission, is at risk as the Indonesian Government seeks to change laws governing its mandate.
Transparency International - The Transparency International Board of Directors met and resolved to establish an independent external investigation into any alleged misconduct at the TI Secretariat in Berlin that might constitute a breach of rules, principles, and standards of an ethical nature.
Land corruption and food securityIt starts at the very origin of food — land. Land corruption has a huge impact on farming and thus on food security, especially of the ...
17 Oct 2019
Yesterday, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), which is Transparency International’s chapter in Nigeria, organised a special session at the World Bank and IMF Annual ...
17 Oct 2019
Joseph is Supporter Engagement Officer at Transparency International UK. In this blog, he reflects on corruption risks in the sometimes confusing area of public procurement, after his attendance at ...
11 Oct 2019
João Dias Pacheco is a lawyer and a member of the Board of Directors of Transparency International Portugal. He was one of the whistleblowers in the case in which former officials of the water ...
11 Oct 2019
Munkhbayar’s company, INAKIS, is helping to solve the extreme air pollution problems in the outskirts of Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar, caused by burning rubber and tyres. The company ...
11 Oct 2019
Bribes for medical services can cost lives, but citizens are driving change.When 16-year-old Abdul Rahmana Shakina collapsed in 2017, her parents rushed her to Ghana’s Tamale Teaching ...
08 Oct 2019
Over the past two decades, anti-corruption advocates have made great strides in dealing with corruption in a variety of ways, successfully raising awareness about corruption around the globe, ...
07 Oct 2019
Attempts to smear and identify the whistleblower who filed a report regarding President Trump’s phone call with President Zelensky of Ukraine are both dangerous and threaten to distract from ...
01 Oct 2019
This Saturday, 28 September, is International Right to Information Day. For the Transparency International movement, this is a day to celebrate the difference that citizens can make towards fighting ...
27 Sep 2019
In Berlin, Transparency International fights as part of a broad coalition of civil society for the introduction of a Berlin Transparency Act. Here, we give 9 reasons why this new law would improve ...
27 Sep 2019
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