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In Focus editions in 2006
November 2006
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2006 Corruption Perceptions Index - reinforces link between poverty and corruption
Shows the machinery of corruption remains well-oiled, despite improved legislation
October 2006
- Experts and practitioners will gather in Guatemala on 15-18 November for the 12th biannual International Anti-Corruption Conference.
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BPI 2006: Leading exporters undermine development with dirty business overseas
Foreign bribery by emerging export powers disconcertingly high - Public Contracting in Latin America: Nine country reports measure corruption risk
September 2006
- Preventing Corruption on Construction Projects. Special report: Risk Assessment and Proposed Actions for Funders
August 2006
- Water Integrity Network: Keeping corruption out of your water. World water gets integrity treatment
- African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption and Related Offences
- Corruption in the defence sector. The arms and defence sector is rated as one of the three most corrupt business sectors by TI’s global Bribe Payer’s Index. On behalf of Transparency International, TI (UK) is leading a global project in the defence and security sector, working with the major stakeholders to reduce corruption in the defence sector, and particularly in defence procurement.
July 2006
- TI Annual Report 2005 Transparency International’s work made a world of difference in 2005. A review of the year’s major corruption stories and achievements of the anti-corruption movement in Transparency International’s Annual Report.
- 2006 TI Progress Report on OECD Convention Enforcement Enforcement of the OECD Convention on combating bribery of foreign public officials
June 2006
- Corruption and Sport - When the beautiful game turns ugly... With World Cup fever kicking into high gear, all eyes are on the ‘beautiful game’. But for all its grace, there is a dark side to soccer and the sport industry more broadly. Match-fixing, money-laundering, kickbacks, extortion and bribery may not quite be Olympic sports, but they are all too prevalent in the athletic world.
May 2006
- Elections: Latin America 2006 Elections are a time for promises, plans and holding candidates accountable for a country’s past and future. TI takes a closer look at political financing and campaign corruption in the framework of Latin America’s big election year.
- Corruption and the EU Accession Process “It is the judiciary reform and fight against corruption and crime that are the critical yardsticks.” (Olli Rehn, Commissioner for Enlargement at the European Commission. Strasbourg, 03 April 2006.)
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World Press Freedom Day Reporting on corruption is a vital sign of press freedom.
“I am ready to die for this country if this will help it." (Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist
21 May 1969 – November 2000 )
April 2006
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World Health Day 2006: The cure for corruption in the health care industry starts with transparency
“When a poor young mother believes that her government places its own interests above her child's, or that securing services like that child's basic health care requires a hand under the table, her hope for the future is dampened. But embedded corruption can be rooted out when people join together to change the system that facilitates it.("Huguette Labelle, Chair, Transparency International) - The OAS Convention – 10 Years Old And Moving Forward The OAS Inter-American Convention Against Corruption is the first international agreement to specifically address corruption on every scale. Ten years on, the time is ripe for effective implementation. Civil society is a key contributor to making a reality the anti-corruption commitments of the 33 countries that have signed and ratified the Convention since its inception in 1996.
March 2006
- Living Large - a TI Kenya report In a gripping report TI Kenya investigates the purchase of high-end, luxury vehicles by senior government officials in the first year of the NARC administration.
February 2006
- Transparency International and poverty fighter Geldof join forces Sir Bob Geldof explains that when he first began campaigning for poverty reduction in 1985, he was simply reacting to the symptoms of poverty. Since then, he has come to see that focusing on poverty alone will not solve the problem – Geldof now states that it is not possible to beat poverty without tackling corruption.
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Theft, bribery and extortion rob millions of proper healthcare, says Global Corruption Report 2006
“The price of corruption in health care is paid in human suffering.” (Hugette Labelle, Chair of Transparency International.)
January 2006
- New Anti-Corruption Governments: Liberia’s Challenge to Deliver Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf takes office today as President of Liberia, with a stated commitment to giving high priority to anti-corruption efforts in that West African country.
