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UNCAC Coalition discusses UNGASS & the Path Forward with Vienna negotiators

22 April 2021 – What is the way forward to identify and discuss weaknesses and gaps in the global anti-corruption framework after the UN Special Session against corruption in June? On which issues has the UNCAC proven to be inefficient…

UNCAC Coalition briefs Civil Society on UNGASS preparations

20 April 2021 – Less than two months to go until the first-ever UNGASS against corruption, modalities for civil society participation in the special session are finally becoming clearer, and many CSOs wish to engage and contribute to a meaningful…

UNCAC Coalition Victims of Corruption Working Group discusses art as a means to give voice and identity to victims, featuring Luis Sotelo

20 April 2021 – How can art be used as a transformative medium for the individual and collective voices of victims of corruption? This question was at the center of a recent virtual meeting of the UNCAC Coalition’s Working group…

NEARLY 100 CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS CALL ON UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO TAKE ACTION ON GLOBALISED CORRUPTION, TASK A NEW EXPERT GROUP WITH PROPOSING SOLUTIONS

20 April 2021 – Issued by Transparency International, the UNCAC Coalition and Integrity Initiatives International To tackle transnational, large-scale and high-level forms of corruption, UN member states should task a special intergovernmental expert group with the development of concrete solutions,…

New Civil Society Report on Ecuador: More Inter-Institutional Coordination and a Truly Independent Judiciary Needed to Advance Anti-Corruption Efforts

15 April 2021 – Ecuador has made significant progress towards developing normative legal frameworks for the implementation of most articles of Chapter II (Preventive Measures), but the implementation of Chapter V (Asset Recovery) provisions of the United Nations Convention against…

OECD Session Recap: Prioritizing Transparency in the Fight against Corruption, Post-Pandemic

15 April 2021 – As part of the 2021 OECD Global Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum, the UNCAC Coalition and Access Info Europe hosted a virtual session on ‘Transparency to Fight Corruption in Post-Pandemic Development.’ The time to advance transparency globally…

First Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting: Civic Space and COVID-19

13 April 2021 – The COVID-19 Pandemic has been misused as a pretext for limiting civic space and suspending or circumventing parliamentary oversight in several countries in the Asia-Pacific region, resulting in massive corruption risks in the governments’ responses to…

Board Elections 2021

9 April 2021 – The UNCAC Coalition is announcing the upcoming election of members of the Coalition’s Coordination Committee (CCC), which is the organisation’s oversight and coordination body. The following board seats are up for election: a – East Asia,…

Beneficial Ownership Transparency and the UNGASS

7 April 2021 – In a three-part series of issue-specific briefings for delegations negotiating the UNGASS Political Declaration, the UNCAC Coalition hosted a webinar on Beneficial Ownership Transparency (BOT) alongside Open Ownership and Transparency International. The event was co-sponsored by…

UNCAC Coalition briefs UNGASS delegates on Asset and Interest Disclosure

6 April 2021 – What role can asset and interest declarations of public officials play in preventing and detecting conflicts of interest and possible corruption cases? What are good practice approaches and common challenges in asset declaration frameworks? These questions…