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Estonia signs UNCAC Review Transparency Pledge

20 February 2020 – Estonia has become the 21st country to sign the UNCAC Coalition’s Transparency Pledge, voluntarily committing to a high level of transparency and civil society inclusion in the second cycle of the UNCAC implementation review. Estonia’s second…

CoSP8 Special Event “Making transparency work: Technology-driven approaches to facilitate public access to information”

10 February 2020 – Summary of key points raised at the event  Making transparency work: technology-driven approaches to facilitate public access to information UNCAC CoSP8 Special Event Friday, 20 December 2019, 09.00-10.00 Organised by: UNCAC Coalition, Article 19, Ministry of…

Why don’t the victims of bribery share in the record-breaking Airbus settlement?

6 February 2020 – This post was originally published on the Transparency International website. Last Friday, French, UK and US authorities announced that Airbus would pay record penalties for foreign bribery, after the European aerospace manufacturer reached a €3.6 billion…

Our key take-aways from the COSP8 Special Session: Getting Serious About Beneficial Ownership Transparency

31 January 2020 –  During the UNCAC COSP8 in Abu Dhabi, the UNCAC Coalition co-organized this Special Event on Beneficial Ownership Transparency – i.e. public access to information about the real, ultimate owners of companies and other legal entities who…

Launch of CCPR’s Practitioners’ Guide on corruption and human rights and training for CSOs

14 January 2020 – The Centre for Civil and Political Rights (CCPR), based in Geneva, presented its new Practitioners’ Guide on corruption and human rights at the Conference of the States Parties to the UNCAC (COSP) in Abu Dhabi in…

Austria signs the UNCAC Coalition’s Transparency Pledge

14 January 2020 – In December 2019, Austria became the 19th country to sign the UNCAC Coalition’s Transparency Pledge, thus committing to the following six principles of transparency in the implementation review process of the UN Convention against Corruption: We…

UNCAC Coalition Beneficial Ownership (BO) Transparency box game

13 January 2020 – This quick and simple game puts the player in the role of an investigator who needs to track down the persons who stole €100 million in a corruption scandal. As the player takes step after step…

“The Observer” – Issue Nr.3 at CoSP 8

19 December 2019 – The  last issue of “The Observer” newsletter has been published and distributed.  You can download it by clicking the image above or the title of the document below. 2019 12 19 OBSERVER Issue 03 FINAL…

“The Observer” – Issue Nr.2 at CoSP 8

18 December 2019 – The Coalition has published the second issue of “The Observer”. You will be able to read the Coalition’s statement to the Plenary as well as an article denouncing the denial of entry to a Coalition member…

Serbian investigative reporter prevented from speaking at UN Anti-Corruption Conference in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi, 18 December 2019 – Award-winning Serbian journalist Stevan Dojčinović, founder and editor-in-chief of the Crime and Corruption Reporting Network KRIK, was detained at Abu Dhabi International Airport early Wednesday morning. He was arriving in the United Arab Emirates…