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Letter from the Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa to the Prime Minister of Swaziland

23 August 2012. Dear H.E. Dr. Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, Re: Ratification of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) We are pleased to inform you that the Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa commissioned a desk study on the status of signature…

SEC Adopts Transparency Rules for Landmark Extractives Industry Law

Washington DC, 22 August 2012. This post was originally published on the Global Financial Integrity website. GFI Welcomes SEC Vote on Historic Dodd-Frank 1504 Allowing Measure to Take Effect More than two years after the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall…

German CEOs join Transparency International calls for revision of MP bribery laws

Berlin, 8 August 2012. This post was originally published on the Transparency International website. The letter sent by more than 30 CEOs of large German companies (including Allianz, Daimler, Deutsche Bank and Siemens), underlines the urgent need for the criminal…

German big businesses push government to sign anti-corruption convention

Berlin, 8 August 2012. This post was originally published on the Transparency International website. Today Germany’s biggest businesses criticised their government for failing to ratify the global treaty against corruption agreed by the United Nations almost ten years ago. One…

Standard Chartered Allegations Emblematic of Systemic Money Laundering Orchestrated by International Banking Community

Washington DC, 7 August 2012. This post was originally published on the Global Financial Integrity website. Bankers Should Be Held Responsible for their Actions The allegations levied yesterday by the New York State Department of Financial Services against British banking…

Access to information: a growing priority in the fight against corruption

Madrid, 1 August 2012. This post was originally published on the Access Info Europe website. At the first ever civil society briefing with States Parties to the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) which took place in Vienna this June, access…

Why Monitoring of the UN Convention Against Corruption Matters

Cape Town, 25 July 2012. This post was originally published on the ISS Africa website. The almost ten-year-old United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) has committed governments to a bold agenda in the fight against corruption. The current phase of…

“Biens Mal Acquis” Case: Teodorin Obiang refuses to appear before judicial authorities

Paris, 13 July 2012. The judges release an international arrest warrant Teodoro Nguema Obiang (TNO), son of the President of Equatorial Guinea and recently appointed “second vice president”, refused for the second time to appear before the investigating judges of…

United Nations Town Hall Meeting on Corruption, 20 June in Vienna

9 July 2012, by Gillian Dell, Transparency International. What if governments got together and asked the people of the world: “How do you think we’re doing in our efforts against corruption”? And then listened. That’s what happened at the United…

Overview of the in-person Coordination Committee meeting, 21–22 June

6 July 2012, by Vincent Lazatin. Taking advantage of the presence of a majority of the members of the UNCAC Coalition Coordination Committee in Vienna due to the IRG NGO briefing, the Coordination Committee held a two-day strategy meeting. The…

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