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Civil Society challenges governments in Open Letter to Global Forum II

It is time for the talking to stop and the action against corruption to begin. This is the central message that civil society organisations from across the world will deliver when they place a set of key demands before the more than 100 governments gathering at the Second Global Forum on Fighting ...

The Condon Report was a missed opportunity to launch an amnesty for cricketers ‘who come clean’

Sport - The Condon Report paints a dismal picture of a game once held up to the world as the epitome of everything that was fair and decent, said Pope, particularly when the game, by its very nature and the ability of a single individual to influence a variable factor, lends itself to manipulation. But ...

Transparency International calls for a reform of German political party financing before the 2002 federal elections

Transparency International has appealed to the political parties represented in the German Bundestag to introduce party financing reforms before the federal elections in 2002. The reforms proposed so far by the Bundestag parties were "piecemeal and full of loopholes", according to the German ...

Another giant leap for Yuri Baturin - Destination Earth

Yuri Baturin, lawyer and mathematician, political scientist, journalist, writer and Alpinist, became a professional astronaut in 1998 after serving as National Defence Council Secretary of the Russian Federation and adviser to President Boris Yeltsin from 1993 to 1998. While space travel may now ...

Transparency International joins Global Campaign for Participatory Urban Governance

Transparency International has joined together with the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) to launch a Global Campaign for Participatory Urban Governance. In a Memorandum of Understanding (attached) signed in Bremen today by Peter Eigen, Chairman of Transparency International, ...

Transparency International UK Welcomes a Clear Agenda Against Corruption

Transparency International UK has welcomed today's report from the Parliamentary Select Committee on International Development. "The Committee has done an excellent job in reporting to Parliament and the public on the question of corruption from an international and development perspective" said Mr ...

Transparency International endorses UK efforts to implement OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

Transparency International has endorsed efforts to bring UK legislation in line with the requirements of the 1997 OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. This Convention has been ratified by the UK but there has been no subsequent attempt to bring UK legislation into conformity by criminalising the bribery ...

Transparency International launches campaign to repatriate Africa’s stolen wealth - Nyanga Declaration

The members of the United Nations should adopt an international treaty to expedite the tracing, recovery and repatriation of wealth stolen from developing countries and transferred abroad, declared the representatives of Transparency International from 11 African countries, following a meeting held ...

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Transparency International launches chapter in Serbia

A new country chapter was launched in Serbia today by Transparency International. "This initiative coincides with the welcome return of Serbia to the family of European democracies," said TI Executive Director for Central and Eastern Europe Miklos Marschall, speaking at the launch of Transparency ...

Transparency International launches activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The launch of a country chapter in Bosnia and Herzegovina coincided with "the beginning of a new mood of optimism in the region," said Peter Eigen, Chairman of Transparency International. Speaking in Banja Luka at the launch of Transparency International's chapter in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Peter ...