Commitment is crucial in the fight against corruption. - 30 March 2018

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Commitment is crucial in the fight against corruption.

This week, we see this in both Vietnam, where a high-profile crusade against corruption is generating lots of publicity but very few results, and France, where commitment takes centre stage at the Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum hosted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

In Paris, our chair, Delia Ferreira Rubio, outlined what leaders must do to commit to anti-corruption and declared: “Commitment is not just a speech. It’s working hard to produce changes.” Hear her discuss commitment in this one minute video and read about turning ideas into action in this blog.

Also at the forum, our Australian chapter shared how it’s working with local leaders to ensure sustainable mining that is free of corruption, while our advocacy team described its work with investigative journalists to tackle an alarming trend between attacks on reporters and corruption.

 

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Hungary’s controversial Golden Visa scheme: ins and outs

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15 incentives for greater citizen engagement in the fight against corruption (Part 3 of 4)

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Built to Fail: The Ravaged Landscape of Construction Corruption

Around the globe building codes of modern governments are failing, undermined by corruption, lax regulation and the forces of nature. IACC Young Journalist Andrew Ochieng investigates corruption in Kenya's building sector.  

Built to Fail was produced by Journalists for Transparency, a project of Transparency International, in collaboration with 100Reporters.

 

Corruption in the news this week

Top Stories

Brazil: Brazil's Dilma Rousseff condemns Netflix over corruption series
BBC
 
Switzerland: OECD says Switzerland needs to step up the fight against ‘foreign bribery’
Swissinfo
 
Pakistan: Pakistan’s New Ambassador to US accused of Embezzlement
OCCRP (TI mention)
 
USA: A cabinet of conspicuous corruption
The Atlantic
 
South Africa: South Africa Corruption Inc
Al Jazeera
 
Liberia/USA: Catch me if you can: Exxon complicit in corrupt Liberian oil sector
Global Witness
 

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