Image: International Monetary Fund Illicit financial flows (IFFs) have been, and continue to be, a huge problem for developing countries, especially. They hinder countries’ ability to meet the UN sustainable development goals, because they undermine the fiscal systems which are in place to collect government revenue, and reduce the amount of funds available for development Read more >
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South Africa currently holds the G20 presidency, in a first for the African continent. Its term runs from 1 December 2024 to 30 November 2025 – coming to an end just five years before the deadline of the UN’s 2030 agenda for sustainable development, which encompasses the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs). The country has Read more >
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Image: UNOCD Today, 9 December, the world marks International Anti-Corruption Day (IACD). This year’s theme is Uniting with Youth Against Corruption: Shaping Tomorrow’s Integrity, and it will be run as a biennial campaign to highlight the vital role young people play in the fight against corruption. Corruption is intertwined in most of the challenges that Read more >
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Image: Flickr/g20brasil24 The G20 leaders’ declaration released at the close of the Rio summit makes all the right noises regarding various issues ranging from global conflict and inequality to food security and climate change. However, its take on action against corruption is poor, to say the least. Out of 85 paragraphs in a 22-page document, Read more >
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Image: Flickr/G20 Brasil Ahead of the 2024 G20 Rio de Janeiro summit, where leaders will come together to discuss matters of critical import for countries around the world, Transparency International’s chapters in G20 countries have written an open letter to the delegates, urging them to walk their long-standing talk on corruption and take concrete action Read more >
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Image: Wikimedia/Raimond Spekking. Used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Does the mining sector in Africa have all the requisite best standards in place to ensure both adequate investment and sustainable impact on the environment and the livelihood of communities affected by mining? The answer to this question is a mixed bag of legislative and Read more >
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Transparency International mourns the death of Ghassan Gharib Zahran, the 13-year-old son of Salam Zahran, our colleague from our Palestine chapter, the Coalition for Integrity and Accountability (AMAN). Ghassan was shot and killed yesterday by Israeli forces close to his village, Deir Abu Mishal, near Ramallah in the West Bank of Palestine. We extend our Read more >
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Corruption Watch’s work in helping to expose and address corruption in the land sector is part of an international research project on how corruption affects the most marginalised of our communities in this regard. The project, overseen by Transparency International, has resulted in the recent release on 19 April 2024 of a report, This Beautiful Read more >
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Source: Transparency International The rising demand for land due to the global food crisis, climate change, rising sea levels, desertification, and extreme weather events, all limit its availability and accessibility. As global crises exacerbate inequalities, people who experience discrimination see their land rights affected the most. An earlier 2021 report by the Equal Rights Trust Read more >