at the very Core of it all … is Content!
TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL ESTIMATES 75 MILLION AFRICANS PAID A BRIBE IN THE PAST YEAR A majority of Africans say corruption has risen in the past 12 months and most governments are seen as failing in their duty to stop the abuse of power, bribery and secret deals, according to a new opinion poll from Transparency International. …
TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL AND MALTA PRIME MINISTER MAKE JOINT STATEMENT At the first day of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), taking place in Malta, a joint statement of Transparency International and Hon. Joseph Muscat, Prime Minister of Malta, has pledged to put fighting corruption at the centre of the Commonwealth. The statement outlines the …
REPORT SHOWS WEAK DISCLOSURE ON CORPORATE HOLDINGS AND COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY REPORTING, DISCLOSURE OF PROGRAMMES TO PREVENT CORRUPTION SCORES BETTER The world’s biggest telecommunications companies do not disclose enough information on how they organize themselves and even less on each country where they do business which makes it difficult to hold them to account for their actions, …
REPORT ON 19 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND 3 EU INSTITUTIONS SHOWS UNDUE INFLUENCE ON POLITICS ACROSS THE REGION AND IN BRUSSELS Transparency International said today that Europe urgently needs lobbying reform. A new report from the anti-corruption group found that of 19 European countries assessed, only 7 have some form of dedicated lobbying law or regulation, allowing for …
Weak institutions and countries where governments are corrupt or vulnerable to corruption are jeopardising democracy in the Americas, warned Transparency International, the global anti-corruption movement, at the start of the VII Summit of the Americas which is taking place in Panama City this week. All of the thematic areas to be covered during the summit, …
TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL, TWO NOBEL LAUREATES AND 22 LEADERS OF CIVIL SOCIETY REPRESENTING EVERY CONTINENT PUBLISH OPEN LETTER TO G20 LEADERS An open letter published today to the leaders of the Group of 20 biggest economies, five days before the leaders’ summit in Brisbane, Australia, calls for concrete actions to stop corruption and make the global …
Why do Stock Markets behave the way they do? Why do the Indices go up one day and crash on the very next day, often without any reason – at least, reasons that are visible to ordinary mortals? What does the market “know” that makes it behave in a particular manner that you and I …
As we ramble towards the end of what many claim, will go down in history as a watershed election for India, it is time to take an objective, even holistic view of things. Are we really casting a mandate for Change? Will India be better off the day after the results come in? Or are …
50 Condom slogans to overcome the overdose of the Elections This has certainly been the most abrasively fought election to my knowledge. All norms of decency have been thrown like the proverbial baby with the bathwater and each day, we have stretched the nadir to a new low. Minions from every side of the ideological …
Ever wonder how Election smells? The long queue in the local Secondary School with the acrid odor of walls that have received a fresh coat of paint and the offensive stench of overflowing urinals that have been sought to be neutralized by the sprinkling of Election Commission ordained bleaching powder? That smell of an untimed Holi …