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Protests highlight the urgent need for clean government in Georgia

The public protests at high-level corruption in the Georgian government, seen on the streets of Tbilisi, "reflect not only the urgent need for clean government in Georgia, but in the Caucasus region as a whole," said Miklos Marschall, Transparency International's Executive Director for Central and ...

Public outrage is calling governments to account and forcing corrupt leaders out of office, says the Global Corruption Report 2001

The Global Corruption Report 2001 is the first comprehensive report on the state of corruption around the world. "We are publishing the Global Corruption Report 2001 to strengthen public understanding of the pervasiveness of corruption and the damage this scourge does to building democracy, ...

Investigating magistrate in France and coalition that impeached city mayor in Brazil win anti-corruption prize

Anti-Corruption Awards - "The Transparency International Integrity Award 2001 has been won by investigating magistrate Eva Joly of France, and by the Public Prosecutor's Office and the people of the city of Londrina in Brazil," announced Peter Eigen, Chairman of Transparency International, the global non-governmental ...

The Global Corruption Report 2001 ‘echoes a clarion call for a worldwide coalition that will tolerate no safe haven for corruption and money-laundering’

The Global Corruption Report 2001 is "the first edition of an indispensable report on the state of corruption around the globe", says Peter Eigen, Chairman of Transparency International. The report, published by Transparency International, the world's leading non- governmental organisation engaged ...

Presidents Fox and Havel to join George Soros, Eva Joly, Interpol, NGOs and business leaders at the International Anti-Corruption Conference in Prague, 7-11 October

International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) - President Vicente Fox Quesada of Mexico, Milos Zeman, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, and justice ministers and public prosecutors from around the world will converge on Prague on 7-11 October 2001. They will join top representatives of private business, including the mining, petroleum and ...

British kidnap victim case serves as warning anti-corruption group says

Anyone would have a degree of sympathy for the former deputy mayor of Northampton, UK who was held at gunpoint in Johannesburg last week.

A constructive dialogue is needed between civil society organisations and the players in the global trading system

"It is essential that the voice of civil society organisations is heard in the board-rooms of decision- makers, in particular in international institutions," said Peter Eigen, Chairman of Transparency International, today, welcoming the establishment of an Advisory Group to the Director-General of ...

New index highlights worldwide corruption crisis, says Transparency International. he Corruption Perceptions Index 2001 ranks 91 countries

Surveys - This year's index, published by the world's leading non- governmental organisation fighting corruption, ranks 91 countries. Some of the richest countries in the world - Finland, Denmark, New Zealand, Iceland, Singapore and Sweden - scored 9 or higher out of a clean score of 10 in the new CPI, ...

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Transparency International chapters in the Americas endorse the OAS follow-up mechanism to the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption

Transparency International and its chapters in the Americas welcome the signing of an agreement at the Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly in Costa Rica on June 3-5 to put into action the commitment of the heads of state at the Third Summit of the Americas in Quebec, Canada ...

“A UN Convention is no substitute for anti-corruption programmes at the national level”

Conventions - It would be a very great mistake for anyone to believe that a UN convention by itself will alter in any way the great burden of suffering corruption is inflicting on billions of people around the world in the course of their daily lives. This was the reaction of Transparency International to the ...