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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…

Gender equality in parliaments and political corruption

7 March 2014, by Priya Sood. This post was originally published on the Thomson Reuters Foundation website. Does the extra X chromosome make political leaders less likely to bribe, pilfer and lie? Are women across the board less corrupt? After…

Germany is ready to sign UNCAC at last

26 February 2014, by Christian Humborg. This post was originally published on the Transparency International website. Creative commons, Flickr / baracoder In the end, it was an overwhelming majority. Only seven members of parliament voted last Friday (21 February 2014)…

Prosecuting Corruption as an International Crime

22 November 2013, by Akaash Maharaj. At the most recent Global Conference of Parliamentarians Against Corruption, held in Manila, Philippines, in February, the membership of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) unanimously mandated GOPAC to seek to establish…

Follow the Rules on NGO Observer Status in COSP Subsidiary Bodies

15 November 2013, by Gillian Dell. Transparency and civil society participation are essential for anti-corruption efforts, as recognised in many articles of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). Nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) can offer valuable expertise and advice for government initiatives,…

Too Big to Fail: A Concerted Push for a Stronger UNCAC

15 November 2013, by Vincent Lazatin. Ten years after the adoption of the landmark UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), we take stock of what has been accomplished and look forward to what has yet to be achieved. A decade ago,…