Postcards: Colombia’s Cartagena seeks to clean up corruption blocking climate plans
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on efforts to ensure the city of Cartagena is better prepared for future disasters…
Enforcement against foreign bribery down sharply since 2018 – group
Washington, DCReuters Active enforcement against foreign bribery has dropped sharply since 2018, and three places – China, Hong Kong and India – did not open a single foreign bribery investigation from 2016 to 2019, a new report by watchdog Transparency International found. The report, released Tuesday, said the share of global exports from countries that […]
Macron says aid to blast-stricken Lebanon will not go to ‘corrupt hands’
Beirut, LebanonReuters French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday promised aid to Lebanon but reassured angry citizens reeling from a blast that killed 145 people that no blank cheques will be given to its leaders unless they enact reforms and end rife corruption. Speaking at a news conference at the end of a dramatic visit to […]
Top worry for young Africans? Jobs and corruption – but green anxieties grow
Johannesburg, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Despite surging climate change threats, from worsening storms to growing water shortages, young Africans see unemployment, corruption and political instability as the most pressing issues facing them, according to a first-of-its-kind survey. But environmental and socioeconomic problems are often inter-related – with corruption and unemployment driving illegal logging, for instance, […]
ESSAY: WHERE ARE PEOPLE SATISFIED WITH DEMOCRACY – AND WHY
In an article first published on The Conversation, academics ROBERTO FOA and ANDREW JAMES KLASSEN, of the University of Cambridge, look at what their research shows about people’s experience of democracy around the world…
A TOWN TORN APART: MEXICO’S INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES FIGHT FOR AUTONOMY
OSCAR LOPEZ, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Mexico…
Survey finds ‘sextortion’ rife in Latin America, women worst hit
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation One in five people in Latin America and the Caribbean has either direct or indirect experience of officials using their positions of power to demand sexual favours, usually from women, according to a survey published on Monday. “Sextortion” – abuse of power to obtain sexual favours – is prevalent in Latin […]
Denmark, New Zealand and Finland seen as least corrupt, according to annual index
Denmark, New Zealand and Finland are seen as the least corrupt countries in the world and Somalia, Syria and South Sudan as the most corrupt while the US has been ranked outside the top 20 least corrupt countries for the first time since 2011. They are among the findings of Transparency International’s 2018 Corruption Perceptions […]
The poor and vulnerable “suffer disproportionately” thanks to worldwide corruption, says UN chief
The poor and vulnerable “suffer disproportionately” as a result of corruption around the world, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the UN Security Council this week. Addressing the council on Monday, Guterres cited World Economic Forum data showing corruption costs the global economy an estimated $US2.6 trillion a year – or five per cent of global gross […]
SIGHT-SEEING: THE CHURCH AND POWER
NILS VON KALM reflects on why the church should heed the warning about the link between corruption and power…