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G8 Summit: A Civil Society-Driven Agenda - Russia Please Take Note
Last week in preparation for the G8 meeting in Northern Ireland, German Chancellor Angela Merkel invited a group of civil society organizations to Berlin to brief her on their concerns, signalling how important our views are in shaping the world leaders' agenda.
Missing the point on facilitation payments
There needs to be full understanding of the damage caused by facilitation payments on companies and societies. This understanding is lacking in the current debate on a revision of the Bribery Act.
G8: It’s time for action on money laundering
The UK Government has announced that transparency and anti-corruption will be key elements at the G8 summit this year. Much needed action on money laundering provides an opportunity to live up to that promise.
Bribery Act under attack from ‘compassion’ and free lunchers
A common approach of those trying to undermine the Bribery Act is to pretend it is an instrument of oppression preventing honest businessmen from doing business. The pretence is advanced by asking questions that are absurd in the hope of evoking absurd answers.
The Bribery Act should not be watered down
According to reports, the UK Government is considering reviewing the Bribery Act, specifically the section on ‘facilitation payments’, otherwise known as bribes. Since the Bribery Bill was introduced in 2009 there have been concerted efforts by a small but vocal minority to water it down or prevent it passing into law.
Is tax a moral issue?
It was a surprise to read in yesterday’s Guardian and elsewhere the remarks of Sir Roger Carr, President of the CBI, that tax avoidance "cannot be about morality – there are no absolutes".
Whistleblowing in the UK
60% of whistleblowers receive no response from management, says a report released this week by Public Concern at Work on the experience of whistleblowers.
Ghost money: Is the CIA its own worst enemy?
Depressing but not shocking: that would be the reaction of most to reports that the CIA and MI6 have given large amounts of cash to senior members of the Afghan government to buy influence.
Fake bomb detectors deliver the latest casualties of corruption
Yesterday, the British ‘businessman’ James McCormick was found guilty of fraud for selling millions of pounds worth of utterly useless bomb detectors to governments around the world, including a major contract in Iraq.
Affaire Cahuzac – Pour un sursaut national
In the wake of recent events in France, the Board of Transparency International France call on French citizens – at home and abroad - to become active in the fight against corruption:
