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The Moscow Times
December 19, 2018
Anti-corruption activists say official figures vastly underestimate the prevalence of bribery in a country that ranks low in transparency and high inÃâà...
Kyiv Post
December 18, 2018
... introduction of an electronic declaration verification system and the abolition of the obligation to file declarations for anti-corruption activists.
euronews
December 11, 2018
Watch: Romania's anti-corruption activists mark a year of consecutive protests. Comments. By Rachael Kennedy • last updated: 11/12/2018.
NTV Uganda
December 9, 2018
The Anti Corruption activists are demanding that President Yoweri Museveni pronounces himself on the global corruption scandal involvingÃâà...
OZY
December 8, 2018
When his term ends soon, the country's anti-corruption activists will watch carefully to see if he is given another term, and if not, then whoÃâà...
Whistleblowers Protection Blog (blog)
December 7, 2018
This past year, the NWC frequently worked with anti-corruption activists and dedicated governments officials worldwide to help build effectiveÃâà...
Whistleblowers Protection Blog (blog)
December 4, 2018
The National Whistleblower Center (NWC), the leading NGO for whistleblower advocacy, frequently works with anti-corruption activists andÃâà...
UNIAN
April 3, 2018
The Verkhovna Rada did not support the presidential bill concerning e-declaration of assets by anti-corruption activists. ... The Venice Commission stated that the requirements for the anti-corruption activists to submit e-declarations of assets should be completely removed from the relevant law orÃâà...
UNIAN
April 1, 2018
"Unfortunately, the Verkhovna Rada has failed to pass a law cancelling e-declarations for anti-corruption activists before April 1," Radio Liberty's Ukrainian-language service quoted newly elected NAPC chief Oleksandr Manhul as saying at a briefing at midnight on April 1. "In this issue, NACP is on the sideÃâà...
UNIAN
April 1, 2018
Earlier, the G7 ambassadors urged the Verkhovna Rada to abolish the requirements obliging anti-corruption activists and international members of the supervisory boards of Ukrainian state-owned companies file electronic declarations. Brussels has repeatedly demanded that Ukraine abolish this norm, butÃâà...
Interfax-Ukraine
March 28, 2018
"Petro Poroshenko insists that the Verkhovna Rada and all its factions, without exception, must at last hear the arguments of the civil society, our partners, the head of state and take a responsible decision to abolish electronic declaration [requirement for anti-corruption activists]," the press service of theÃâà...
UNIAN
March 28, 2018
The Venice Commission stated that the requirements for the anti-corruption activists to submit e-declarations of assets should be completely removed from the relevant law or significantly narrowed. On March 21, 2018, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Prevention and Combating Corruption recommended that theÃâà...
UNIAN
March 28, 2018
A number of foreign partners called it a "step back". The Venice Commission stated that the requirements for the anti-corruption activists to submit e-declarations of assets should be completely removed from the relevant law or significantly narrowed. On March 21, 2018, the Verkhovna Rada Committee onÃâà...
Interfax-Ukraine
March 28, 2018
"Petro Poroshenko insists that the Verkhovna Rada and all its factions, without exception, must at last hear the arguments of the civil society, our partners, the head of state and take a responsible decision to abolish electronic declaration [requirement for anti-corruption activists]," the press service of theÃâà...
MaltaToday
March 21, 2018
Civil society activists said the banking licence of the private bank Pilatus should be revoked by the Maltese financial regulator, after its chairman was arrested in the United States. Ali Sadr Hasheminejad is facing serious accusations of bank fraud and money laundering for having breached US sanctionsÃâà...
112 International (blog)
March 20, 2018
The Great 7 agreed with the conclusions and recommendations of the Venice Commission on e-declaration for anti-corruption activists and international members of the supervisory boards of state companies and urged Ukraine to comply with them. This was reported in Twitter by the Canadian Chair of theÃâà...
Interfax-Ukraine
March 20, 2018
"E-declaration requirements for anti-corruption activists and international SOE supervisory board members are not consistent with Ukraine's international obligations and best practices, negatively affect international assistance and obstruct the fight against corruption," the Twitter account of the CanadianÃâà...
Forbes India
March 16, 2018
April 2011 at Delhi's iconic Jantar Mantar provided the occasion for a remarkable public negotiation over how best to tackle governmental corruption. The debate revolved around the Jan Lokpal (or ombudsman) legislation, drafted by the government in 2010, but criticised by anti-corruption activists as beingÃâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 15, 2018
As a result of Russia's apparent use of a military-grade nerve agent in an attempted assassination on British soil, the UK government is expected to unveil the full suite of so-called 'Magnitsky' laws that anti-corruption activists have long campaigned for. Magnitsky was a Russian lawyer who died in custodyÃâà...
WikiTribune
March 12, 2018
Much the same could be said about Romania; moreover, Romanian public opinion reached a certain awareness about how critical is to counteract this scourge, and how resolute anti-corruption activists must be. Furthermore, corruption and economic growth went well together. During the last two-threeÃâà...
UNIAN
March 11, 2018
What the presidential administration proposed was two draft laws that would rightly drop the declaration requirement for anti-corruption activists but, surprisingly, add additional reporting for all nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Ukraine. How this is a good solution is anyone's guess. Experts onÃâà...
Khmer Times
March 6, 2018
Mr Putin was widely believed to be furious that American diplomats had wooed pro-democracy and anti-corruption activists, and to have concluded that Washington hoped to subvert his power. When Russia invaded Crimea early in 2014, and when a wider conflict erupted in Russian-speaking UkrainianÃâà...
Redress Information & Analysis
March 3, 2018
Israeli anti-corruption activists are still being infiltrated to this day, with one secret agent coming forward and speaking out a rally last week. It is indeed business as usual. Recently, another lawyer was questioned for nine hours and told he was suspected of working with outside networks to leak informationÃâà...
TheCable
March 3, 2018
Four anti-corruption activists have accused Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation, of contradicting himself in the OPL 245. Malami had written to President Muhammadu Buhari stating that the case against accused persons in the sale of OPL 245 to Shell/Eni by Malabu Oil & Gas Ltd in 2011Ãâà...
EU Reporter
March 2, 2018
“Ukraine continues to see attacks against anti-corruption activists, NGOs and journalists exposing corruption,” says the 2017 report. The establishment of an independent anti-corruption court has also been delayed despite pressure from international and national stakeholders. “The same system is back,”Ãâà...
The Straits Times
March 2, 2018
Malaysian police faced calls from anti-corruption activists to reopen probes into the incident, reported The Malaysian Insight. "He should explain the... transactions and show proof where the amounts were sourced," said Ms Cynthia Gabriel, executive director for the Centre to Combat Corruption andÃâà...
Newsweek
March 2, 2018
Anti-corruption activists in countries such as Syria and Nigeria have unearthed a vast trove of assets in London linked to politicians and oligarchs in their home countries. But many of those doing the laundering are former Soviet citizens. “London has become the global center for laundering the money andÃâà...
Kyiv Post
March 2, 2018
However, unless the bill is amended significantly in the second reading, Ukraine will receive just another useless kangaroo court instead of a genuine independent institution capable of jailing top officials, anti-corruption activists and independent lawyers say. Moreover, Poroshenko may opt for delaying theÃâà...
IDN InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters
March 1, 2018
It also revoked the citizenship of those who criticised the government, and subjugated civil society and anti-corruption activists to arbitrary travel bans and interrogations. This, in conjunction with the absence of a national strategy to fight corruption and an independent corruption agency, resulted in theÃâà...
Netralnews
February 21, 2018
JAKARTA, NNC - Hundreds of employees of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and anti-corruption activists are welcoming the arrival of KPK senior investigator Novel Baswedan at the KPK building on Thursday (2/22/2018). Banners and bouquets colored the welcoming of Novel's return.
World Politics Review
February 13, 2018
Anti-corruption activists celebrated in 2016 when new laws forced public officials to publicly declare income and assets online. ... In December, only a last-minute campaign by anti-corruption activists backed by international pressure prevented political parties with ties to Poroshenko from neutering theÃâà...
The Hindu
February 11, 2018
A section of anti-corruption activists has opposed the decision to unveil former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's portrait in the Assembly on Monday on grounds of “moral impropriety”.“Jayalalithaa was a convicted criminal. They cannot do [unveil her portrait in the Assembly] it. This is a form of impropriety,”Ãâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
Malawi Civil Society Organisations (CSO's) and human rights activists have planned nationwide demonstrations later this month to demand explanation on how the government handled $5 million meant for development.Rights activist, Billy Mayaya told a press conference in the capital Lilongwe onÃâà...
Malta Independent Online
December 31, 1999
Anti-corruption activists have penned a letter to the Greek Prime Minister asking for Maria Efimova, who had provided information to slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, to be granted asylum in Greece. Efimova became a household name in Malta after it was found that she was one source whoÃâà...
NTV Uganda
December 31, 1999
The Anti-Corruption Coalition of Uganda has lauded the Inspectorate of Government for it's decision to probe the operations of Bank of Uganda. BOU governor not above the law -anti-graft activists. Info. Shopping. Tap to unmute. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. More videos.
UNIAN
December 31, 1999
Furthermore, it is crucial that Ukraine's plans to cancel the e-declaration requirements for anti-corruption activists, which likewise raise several serious human rights issues, are implemented as a matter of urgency, before April 1, 2018, the deadline for submission of the first declarations, according to theÃâà...
CNBC
December 31, 1999
That attracted criticism from anti-corruption activists who called for disclosure of the commitments made by the delisted jurisdictions. These engagements remain secret. The initial blacklist included 17 jurisdictions, but after one month eight were removed. They were Barbados, Grenada, South Korea, MacauÃâà...
UNIAN
December 31, 1999
What the presidential administration proposed was two draft laws that would rightly drop the declaration requirement for anti-corruption activists but, surprisingly, add additional reporting for all nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Ukraine. How this is a good solution is anyone's guess. Experts onÃâà...
UNIAN
December 31, 1999
What the presidential administration proposed was two draft laws that would rightly drop the declaration requirement for anti-corruption activists but, surprisingly, add additional reporting for all nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Ukraine. How this is a good solution is anyone's guess. Experts onÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
December 31, 1999
What the presidential administration proposed was two draft laws that would rightly drop the declaration requirement for anti-corruption activists but, surprisingly, add additional reporting for all nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Ukraine. How this is a good solution is anyone's guess. Experts onÃâà...
The New Times
December 31, 1999
Anti-corruption activists describe graft as a social and ethical problem; whereby its fight requires changes in values, norms and behavioral patterns of society, which is usually a long and difficult process. Effectively overcoming challenges, therefore, calls for involvement of different actors in the fight againstÃâà...
