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Coalition CSOs Promote Anti-corruption Enforcement

8 July 2014, by Gillian Dell. Enforcement agencies frequently face constraints in their efforts to bring the corrupt to justice. This means widespread impunity for corruption offences. As shown by UNCAC reviews and other studies, a key challenge for many…

Whistleblower Protection – Still a Long Way to Go

7 July 2014, by Indira Carr. Credit: flickr / stevendepolo Corruption, like drug trafficking and human trafficking, is an activity conducted in the shadows. Investigations to a large extent are dependent on third parties (whistleblowers) who speak out in the…

Put an end to money laundering, bribery and corruption

Berlin, 4 July 2014, by Cobus de Swardt. Corruption around the world is facilitated by the ability to launder and hide proceeds derived from the abuse of power, bribery and secret deals. Dirty money enters the financial system and is…

TI Malaysia Calls for Civil Society Engagement in the UNCAC Review Process

3 July 2014, by Jessica Sercombe. On 24–27 February, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the UNCAC Coalition organised a regional workshop on the UNCAC review mechanism. It was held in Kuala Lumpur and coincided with…

Following up on the UNCAC review process

27 June 2014, by Marie Terracol. In 2009, States Parties of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) adopted a review mechanism to check countries’ implementation of the Convention. Reviews of the provisions on criminalisation and international cooperation (UNCAC chapters III…

The shared benefits of resource revenue transparency

20 June 2014, by Archana Sundarachari, GOPAC. This post was originally published on the Thomson Reuters Foundation website. The global civil society meets this year in Melbourne for the C20 summit as part of several preceding conferences preparing recommendations for…

Collaborating for common goals: UN Convention against Corruption and Open Government Partnership

8 May 2014, by Vincent Lazatin and Andreas Pavlou. Opening up government and tackling corruption are two sides of the same coin that help governments become more accountable and more transparent and help increase citizen participation in government. The Open…

Using FOIA to Get Evidence on Bribe Takers

5 May 2014, by Ignacio A. Boulin Victoria. This post was originally published on the Global Anticorruption Blog. In a recent post, Richard Messick observed—correctly—that although in the last 10-15 years we have seen greater enforcement by so-called “supply-side” countries…

Confiscating Illegal Assets in Europe: A Harmonised Approach

29 April 2014, by Diana Kovatcheva. A newly adopted EU Directive[1] makes it easier for countries to freeze and confiscate the proceeds of cross-border and organised crime. Although a positive step towards developing common EU standards, it is still limited…

Confiscation of ill-gotten gains: The EU changes the rules of the game

9 April 2014, by Maud Perdriel Vaissiere. On 14 March 2014, the European Union (EU) adopted a new Directive on the freezing and confiscation of proceeds of crime which aims to make it easier for national authorities in EU countries…