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9th Regional Meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean: strengthening the right to public information to safeguard the environment

22 December 2022 – Access to public information is an essential part of the fight against corruption: it is one of the fundamental pillars of any corruption prevention strategy. As a tool for holding governments to account, monitoring government performance,…

5th UNCAC Coalition Regional Meeting for Europe: Preventing corruption in public procurement

21 December 2022 – Public procurement has always been a highly corruption-prone area. With over a third of our members and affiliated groups in the UNCAC Coalition Europe network already working on or interested in public procurement, we dedicated the…

New Civil Society Report on Tunisia: Democracy and transparency threatened by exceptional presidential measures, weakening UNCAC principles

14 December 2022 – Over the past two decades of political upheaval, Tunisia has taken action to amend its legislative and institutional frameworks in line with the implementation of provisions under both Chapter II (Preventive measures) and Chapter V (Asset…

New Civil Society Report on Mexico: actual implementation of anti-corruption measures in practice & asset recovery provisions needed to effectively combat corruption 

13 December 2022 – A new civil society report authored by Derechos Humanos y Litigio Estratégico Mexicano (DLM) and Sociedad Mexicana de Litigio de Interés Público finds that while Mexico generally has a comprehensive constitutional, legal and regulatory framework that…

UNCAC at a glance – Tools for Transparency and Civil Society Participation

9 December 2022 – New global mapping of anti-corruption progress: tools for success – Every year, International Anti-Corruption Day invites a moment of reflection. It’s a time to recognize the significant progress that has been made, and to celebrate each…

Why an International Anti-Corruption Court is not the answer

This guest blog by Dr. Juanita Olaya Garcia, who chairs the UNCAC Coalition’s working group on Victims of Corruption and has also previously served as Chair of the Coalition, provides an alternative view on the proposal for the creation of…

Outlining the Proposal for an International Anti-Corruption Court

Leading proponents of an International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC) to tackle grand corruption discussed their vision and ideas with the UNCAC Coalition community 5 December 2022 – A proposal by Integrity Initiatives International (III) is driving an international discussion on the…

UNCAC Coalition at the International Anti-Corruption Conference

Joining over 2,000 people from the international anti-corruption community, the UNCAC Coalition team were thrilled to be at the 20th International Anti-Corruption Conference  in Washington D.C., USA, from 6-10 December 2022. We co-organized two workshops, summarised below. Check out the…

8th Regional Meeting for Sub-Saharan Africa: Funding of Candidatures for Elected Public Office and the Funding of Political Parties – Where are we now?

27 October 2022 – In its resolution 5/4 entitled “Follow-up to the Marrakech declaration on the prevention of corruption”, the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) decided that the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group…

8th Regional Meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean: civil society is putting beneficial ownership transparency on the agenda

24 October 2022 – The increasing complexity of transnational business relationships, the digitization and decentralization of financial institutions, and the ease of doing business in multiple countries and jurisdictions, has made it more difficult for states and citizens to prevent…