Transparency International

• May 28, 2020

Fears abound as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the poorer nations of the world, not only about appalling levels of death and economic depression but also about criminal opportunism. Never before have agencies in the United Nations system, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other official lenders and aid agencies moved on …

Covid-19

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WORLDVIEWS

‘Sextortion’: The Worst Form of Corruption Across the Globe

Frank Vogl

• December 13, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For more than a year, a BBC television team went undercover at the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana, where young female students are routinely extorted by professors. They are vulnerable because they either seek to gain admission to the universities or to secure good grades to allow them …

Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, WORLDVIEWS

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A Tale of Sierra Leone and Striving for Transparency

Dulcie Leimbach

• June 26, 2013

Britain, the world’s major center for investment in the extractive industries, is reviving the international debate on how open management of mining can prevent conflicts. The issue was raised in a Security Council meeting on June 19, after a seven-year hiatus on the subject in that setting. It was also discussed at the Group …

Africa, Development, Governance, Humanitarian Aid, Peace and Security, Security Council

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Fighting Corruption Can Be a Fatal Act

Frank Vogl

• October 10, 2012

WASHINGTON — In 2000, I had the privilege to present Lasantha Wickramatunga, from Sri Lanka, with the Transparency International annual Integrity Award. Wickramatunga was a prominent and tenacious newspaperman with the courage to ask tough questions, call for government accountability and expose corruption. On Jan. 8, 2009, he was driving to work when eight …