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Over 110 Spanish MEP candidates pledge to stand up for citizens against excessive lobbying influence

Madrid, 21 May 2014. The campaign to get future members of the European Parliament to commit to support the regulation and transparency of lobbying has been a huge success in Spain with 116 MEP candidates signing the pledge to “stand-up…

Progress of the UNCAC Review Mechanism and Recommendations for Action

21 May 2014. Dear Chair, Bureau, and Members of the UNCAC Implementation Review Group, On behalf of the UNCAC Coalition, I am writing with proposals for action regarding the UNCAC Review Mechanism and UNCAC implementation. This letter supplements our two…

Saddened by the passing of Barry O’Keefe, IACC Council Chair

Berlin, 29 April 2014. The International Anti-Corruption Conference team and Transparency International are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Barry O’Keefe, a lifelong corruption fighter and Chair of the IACC Council. “The death of Justice O’Keefe is a…

Egypt: SERAP asks African Commission to order unconditional release of Al-Jazeera journalists

Lagos, 16 April 2014. Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, The Gambia requesting the commission “to urgently intervene to prevail on the Egyptian authorities to end the continuing…

Access Info Europe challenges lack of transparency in Spain at European Court of Human Rights

Madrid, 14 April 2014. Access Info Europe today presented a case against Spain at the European Court of Human Rights challenging the refusal to recognise a right of access to information following a seven-year legal battle to obtain information from…

2013 in Kosovo: A year of high corruption and low efficiency in fighting it

Prishtina, 5 April 2014. Today, FOL Movement held a press conference presenting the annual anti-corruption statistics of activities of the Police, Prosecution and Courts in Kosovo during 2013. The conference announced the launch of the 2013 Anti-Corruption Statistics Platform update…

Teodorin Obiang Nguema indicted in Bien Mal Acquis case

Paris, 20 March 2014, Sherpa. Mr. Teodorin Obiang Nguema, Vice-President of Equatorial Guinea, has been placed under formal investigation for money-laundering in the Biens Mal Acquis (“ill-gotten gains”) case by investigating judges from a Paris court (the Tribunal de Grande…

US lawyers seek repatriation of Abacha loot to Nigeria

Abuja, 19 March 2014, SERAP. Two US senior lawyers and professors of law have asked the Eric Holder, Jr. the Attorney General of United States of America to without delay repatriate the sum of $458 million assets allegedly stolen by…

TED Prize Winner Charmian Gooch Announces Global Campaign to Abolish Anonymous Companies

Vancouver, 18 March 2014, Global Witness. This year’s TED Prize winner – Charmian Gooch of Global Witness – has announced that she will use the prestigious million-dollar award “to make it impossible for criminals and corrupt dictators to hide behind…

Transparency International chapters from around the world call for the preservation of peace and democracy in Venezuela

Berlin, 17 March 2014, Transparency International. On the occasion of the current session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Transparency International national chapters from around the world are sending letters of concern to their respective Foreign Offices asking…

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