Transparency International
- Frank Vogl
- • May 28, 2020
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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 …
- Categories: Covid-19
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- Opinion by Frank Vogl
- • December 13, 2019
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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 …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 26, 2013
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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 …
- Categories: Africa, Development, Governance, Humanitarian Aid, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Opinion by Frank Vogl
- • October 10, 2012
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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 …
- Categories: OPINIONS
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