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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…

Abacha’s award: SERAP backs Soyinka, wants FG to disclose spending on centenary celebration

Abuja, 9 March 2014, SERAP. Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has backed Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka’s rejection of the centenary award, and said that “any public award to indicted corrupt public officials sends a wrong message and amounts…

Asian Governments, civil society work together on anti-corruption issues in Kuala Lumpur

Vienna, 6 March 2014, UNODC. This post was originally published on the UNODC website. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) together with a coalition of civil society organizations and government representatives, met in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 24…

Sanusi's suspension a distraction from finding the missing $20 billion oil money

Abuja, 20 February 2014, SERAP. Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has described the suspension of the Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi “a distraction and can only contribute to shifting the focus of the government from the real issue, which…

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