The Latin America and the Caribbean regional community spans a wide range of contexts, from Mexico and Central America to the Andes, the Southern Cone and the Caribbean. It brings together watchdogs, human rights and strategic litigation organizations, and asset recovery initiatives in a region with increasingly shrinking civic space – the most dangerous region in the world for human rights and environmental defenders. Corruption and impunity remain structural problems, closely linked to organized crime, state capture and democratic backsliding. Shared challenges include opaque public procurement, illicit political financing, political interference in the judiciary and oversight bodies, and weak protection for whistleblowers and victims of corruption. Once a frontrunner on access to information, several countries in the region have recently experienced backsliding on this right as well.
The regional community acts as platforms to mobilize collectively and advance anti-corruption efforts globally and nationally.
