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Transparency International wins Carl Bertelsmann Prize 2002

Transparency International (TI) has won the prestigious Carl Bertelsmann Prize 2002, it was announced today by the Bertelsmann Foundation. TI, the world's leading non-governmental organisation fighting corruption, is being recognised for its work in promoting transparency at all levels of society ...

Which countries are perceived as the most corrupt? And which are squeaky clean?

Surveys - The Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2002 will be launched in Berlin on 28 August 2002. There will be 102 countries included in this year's CPI, the highest number in the history of the index. The CPI, which TI first launched in 1995, is a poll of polls, this year drawing on ...

Message to the international community

Over the past few months, we, the people of Nicaragua, have watched with amazement and indignation the corruption scandals that reveal, one after the other, how people, during the last adminstration, protected by the powers that be, enriched themselves illegally. Because of the magnitutde of these ...

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TI launches first publication to confronting corruption adapted to context of Francophone Africa

Transparency International (TI) and its national chapters in Francophone Africa launched a new publication, Combattre la corruption - enjeux et perspectives, at a press conference in Benin today. The book is an adaptation of the pioneering TI Source Book: Confronting Corruption to the context of ...

George Soros and NGOs call for rules to require corporations to disclose payments

Oil and gas - Today, international financier and philanthropist George Soros will launch a call to governments across the globe for transnational resource extraction companies to 'Publish what they pay'. Mr. Soros has teamed up with a coalition of over 30 NGOs to insist that oil, gas and mining companies must ...

Transparency International urges Senegalese government to heed ‘corruption wake-up call’

Senegal - The President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, who apparently heard about the study results via the press but clearly had not read the survey reports, made a scathing attack on the members of Forum Civil. He accused them of being "closet politicians who do not have the courage to accept their ...

David Nussbaum appointed Managing Director to launch new era of ‘professional excellence’ at TI

Transparency International - David Nussbaum, 44, has been appointed Managing Director of Transparency International (TI), the world's leading non-governmental organisation fighting corruption. Nussbaum, who will take up his position at TI's Secretariat in Berlin, Germany, in autumn 2002, is currently Director of Finance, ...

OAS member states urged to speed up review of Inter-American Convention Against Corruption

'It is time to accelerate progress in the fight against corruption in the Americas,' said Transparency International (TI), the not-for-profit anti-corruption organization, in an appeal to members of the Organization of American States, who meet on 2-4 June 2002 at the OAS General Assembly in ...

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“Cronyism is crippling the beautiful game”

Sport - Cronyism in world football is crippling the sport and undermining public confidence in the leadership of FIFA (the International Federation of Football Associations)," said Jeremy Pope, Executive Director of Transparency International (TI), the leading anti-corruption organisation.

TI welcomes the release of Moroccan army whistleblower, Captain Mustapha Adib (French)

Whistleblowing - L' Observatoire pour la protection des défenseurs de droits de l'Homme (programme conjoint de l'OMCT et de la FIDH), Avocats sans frontières - Belgique, et Transparency International se réjouissent de votre libération après ces deux ans et demi de détention arbitraire. Si nous saluons ...