| Hi there, Today (23 June) is World Whistleblower Day, which honours the everyday people who expose wrongdoing and corruption in favour of the public interest. Often, they do so at considerable personal risk. Even in countries and institutions with good whistleblower protection in place, a person's decision to report misconduct, fraud or other infractions is seldom an easy path to take. In short, it takes guts to be a whistleblower. How do whistleblowers help? Among a plethora of examples, it was whistleblowers who revealed: the US NSA's mass surveillance (Edward Snowden) corporate tax evasion in Luxembourg (Antoine Deltour) sub-standard safety procedures for pilots in the Netherlands (Victor van Wulfen) embezzlement in a rail company in Italy (Andrea Franzoso) procurement irregularities during Slovakia's EU presidency (Zuzana Hlavkova) traffic ticket misconduct among Ireland's police (Maurice McCabe and John Wilson) Without whistleblowers, who will reveal the next abuses of power? Around the world, Transparency International is working to make it easier for people to blow the whistle. Many of our national chapters run legal advice centres where witnesses of corruption can report it and receive support. We've promoted better whistleblowing laws and researched how best to enable people to speak up. We are currently pushing for EU-wide legislation to shield whistleblowers, and will continue to raise awareness in support of courageous whistleblowers. You can help: sign this petition calling for EU-wide whistleblower protection. | 