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Whitewashing the UK: The Financial Action Task Force’s evaluation of the UK puts its credibility at stake

14 January 2019, by Sue Hawley, Policy Director of Corruption Watch UK and SCSC Practitioner Fellow – This post was originally published on the Sussex Centre for the Study of Corruption website. When FATF released its evaluation of the UK’s…

CSO letter to OECD on Principles for the use of non-trial resolutions in foreign bribery cases

6 December 2018 – Mr. Angel GurriaSecretary GeneralOrganisation for Economic Cooperation and Development 2 Rue André PascalParis 5775 CEDEX 16France Dear Secretary General Gurrìa, In March 2016, we wrote to you calling for principles on the use of settlements for…

Lima Statement on Corruption involving Vast Quantities of Assets

Lima, Peru, 5 December 2018 – This post was originally published on the UNODC website. From 3 to 5 December 2018, around 80 experts specialized in investigating and prosecuting corruption involving vast quantities of assets coming from nearly 40 countries…

UNODC: Small grants for African CSOs to tackle corruption

UNODC invites CSOs from Africa to apply for small grants which aim to encourage the engagement of civil society with the private sector on anti-corruption matters. The overall objective of these small grants is to help develop (or complement) innovative…

Poland: Position of the Stefan Batory Foundation’s Legal Expert Group on the procedure for selecting Supreme Court judges

7 September 2018, Warsaw – Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to raise your attention to a gross violation of rule of law standards in Poland. Polish authorities are currently selecting new Supreme Court judges in a way which…

Open letter from Uzbek activists to Swiss government: On principles of responsible asset repatriation to Uzbekistan

8 August 2018 – This post was originally published on the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia website. Federal Assembly of Switzerland Swiss Federal Council Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police…

Statement by UNCAC Coalition Chair at UN OHCHR Expert Workshop on Corruption and Human Rights

Geneva, 11 June 2018, by Dr. Juanita Olaya Garcia, Chairperson of the UNCAC Coalition – On the occasion of the “Expert Workshop on Good Practices of United Nations-system support to States in preventing and fighting against corruption with a focus…

Civil Society Statement for the UNCAC Working Group on Asset Recovery Session June 2018

6 June 2018 – We are a group of civil society organisations including UNCAC Coalition members, Transparency International chapters and other groups and have prepared this statement as an input to the UNCAC Working Group on Asset Recovery’s discussions taking…

Malta: Open letter to diplomats regarding the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder

23 March 2018 – This post was originally published on the ARTICLE 19 website. Eight international freedom of expression organisations have signed an open letter urging diplomats in Malta to make their presence felt concerning the investigation of the Daphne…

Swiss lawmakers say Malaysian government never claimed confiscated 1MDB profits

Bern, Switzerland, 14 March 2018 – Civil society representatives lobby in Bern for the fair and transparent return of $104million to the Malaysian public Swiss lawmakers confirmed in a meeting with civil society organizations on Tuesday that the Malaysian government…

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