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Towards some global standards for corporate settlements?

15 March 2016, by Sue Hawley, Corruption Watch. Last Friday, the UNCAC Coalition along with some member organisations, Transparency International, Global Witness and Corruption Watch, wrote to the OECD asking for global standards for corporate settlements in foreign bribery cases.…

Integrity testing: Too effective for corrupt countries?

31 October 2015, by Tilman Hoppe. On 14 August 2014, the Republic of Moldova broke the culture of silence around bribery. The number of public officials reporting bribe offers soared strikingly within days. But what had happened? Moldova simply installed…

Civil society seeks stronger anti-corruption commitments from the countries gathered at the 6th UNCAC COSP

28 October 2015, by Gillian Dell. What’s on the civil society agenda at the 6th UNCAC Conference of States Parties (COSP)? And what will be the UNCAC Coalition’s focus in St Petersburg? Although we expect fewer civil society participants in…

Repairing the damage caused by corruption

27 October 2015, by Dr Juanita Olaya. Image: Pixabay / gerald After years of working in the field of governance and anti-corruption I am convinced that fighting corruption should not be a goal in itself, and is of little help…

In search of remedies for victims of grand corruption

25 October 2015, by Kolawole Olaniyan. freedigiltalphotos.net Corruption, especially grand corruption, is anathema to the effective enjoyment of human rights, but it is often considered an ‘ordinary and victim-less crime’. It isn’t. Yet, the myth that corruption is a victimless…

UNCAC Coalition calls for States Parties to move on beneficial ownership transparency at 6th COSP

25 October 2015, by Christine Clough, Global Financial Integrity. freedigiltalphotos.net When the States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and official observers gather in St Petersburg next week for the 6th Conference of States Parties (COSP), the UNCAC…

Promoting integrity and transparency in public procurement

22 October 2015, by Katja Bechtel and Susan Cote-Freeman, Business Integrity Unit, Transparency International. Image: Pixabay / gerald It is estimated that some US$9.5 trillion of public money is spent each year by governments procuring goods and services on behalf…

Civil society participation: An essential element in anti-corruption efforts

21 October 2015, by Vanja Škorić. The fight against corruption is a long-term process, requiring deep structural changes to a country’s institutions, its legal framework and its culture. Therefore, actors outside government – especially in civil society – are an…

6th COSP in St Petersburg: We must make progress on asset recovery

21 October 2015, by Maud Perdriel-Vaissiere, Asset Recovery Advisor, UNCAC Coalition. The last Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in Panama adopted a resolution on asset recovery (Resolution 5/3). It included concrete measures aimed to…

Civil society participation in the UNCAC Review Mechanism

20 October 2015, by Mirella Dummar Frahi, UNODC. The group of NGO representatives and government focal points that participated in the UNCAC workshop, February 2015, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Following the adoption of the UNCAC Review Mechanism in 2010, it became…