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Civil Society Urges US Treasury to Combat Money Laundering in Real Estate Sector, Curb Abuse of Anonymous Companies

Washington, DC, 11 March 2015, Global Financial Integrity. This post was originally published on the Global Financial Integrity website. GFI and 16 Other Groups Send Letter to FinCEN Urging Enhanced Customer Due Diligence Requirements for U.S. Banks and Real Estate…

EIB’s new transparency policy allows for more secrecy

11 March 2015, Centre for Law and Democracy. This post was originally published on the Centre for Law and Democracy website. Yesterday the European Investment Bank (EIB) formally adopted a revised transparency policy including controversial exceptions to the disclosure of…

Zimbabwe Peace Project demands the immediate release of Itai Dzamara

Harare, 10 March 2015. Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) is disturbed by the forced disappearance /abduction of Itai Dzamara on Monday March 9, 2015. It is regrettable that enforced disappearance still exists in Zimbabwe. Itai who has led the Occupy Africa…

No room at the witness stand – Kenyan groups raise the question of victims of corruption in the UK courts

23 February 2015, Corruption Watch UK. This post was originally published on the Corruption Watch UK website. It has long been an anti-corruption mantra that corruption is not a victimless crime. As the OECD states in its anti-corruption literature, corruption…

OGP Civil Society Co-chairs Statement on the General Transparency Law in Mexico

21 February 2015, by Suneeta Kaimal and Alejandro González Arreola, Open Government Partnership. This post was originally published on the Open Government Partnership website. Mexico has a demonstrated track record of international leadership in the field of transparency. In 2002,…

Nigerian SERAP, Corruption Watch, ANEEJ ask Jega to publish contracts for printing ballot papers

Abuja, 8 February 2015. Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), Corruption Watch UK, and the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) have sent an open letter to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega…

Nigerian CSOs Demand Release of Full Report of Forensic Audit of NNPC and Implementation of all its Recommnedations

Abuja, 8 February 2015. Nigerian Civil Society organizations working on good governance, transparency and accountability in the extractive sector and tax justice demand that the federal government should, without further delay, release to the public, the full report of the…

Statement of Concern from Indonesian Anti-Corruption Networks

Jakarta, 26 January 2015. We, the anti-corruption networks, academics, civil society organizations and concerned citizens, call for broad-based support for the anti-corruption struggle in Indonesia that has now reached a real testing moment from various ‘interest’ groups such as members…

End impunity for corruption and recognize people's rights to information and participation

9 December 2014. Hundreds of groups worldwide call for governments to act On the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day, the UNCAC Coalition, an anti-corruption network of 350 public interest groups worldwide, is calling on governments to get serious about tackling…

Message from the UNCAC Coalition Chair

9 December 2014, by Manzoor Hasan. At the adoption of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in 2003, the UN General Assembly designated 9 December as International Anti-corruption Day. As it is commemorated around the world each year, it not…

A global civil society network promoting the implementation and monitoring of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC)