The U.N. Secretary-General said Tuesday that there is still “an enormous gap” between what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights calls for and the situation in countries around the world. “Human rights violations, misogyny and exclusion are widespread and systematic. Inequality is growing, and hate speech is poisoning public debate,” António Guterres told a U.N.…
What are the risks of the Turkish intervention in Syria? THE MINISTER – It’s a very serious matter. Firstly because this Turkish operation in north-east Syria undermines five years of fighting against Daesh [so-called ISIL]. Islamic State isn’t dead. Its fighters haven’t disappeared, they’re in camps and prisons or have gone underground and are waiting…
As the UK prepares to host an anti-corruption summit designed to break the deadlock on global action, Robert Barrington, the UK head of Transparency International tells Matt Ross that Britain could boost the summit’s chances by getting its own house in order It’s wrong to talk about whole countries as corrupt, argues Robert Barrington; even…
Promotion of bijouterie in China and Internet sites in Chinese is a difficult but interesting question in runet. First of all, we must understand that the market of the Celestial Empire is simply huge. It should also be borne in mind that some markets related to China have their own specifics. The volume of Chinese…
Terrorists require money to operate. Without funding, they cannot purchase weapons, equipment, supplies, or services. The source of terrorist funds may be licit or illicit, and funding often takes the form of multiple small donations, rather than one large sum of money. Terrorist groups may be directly or indirectly linked to organized criminal groups and…
Move follows army chief’s pledge to launch anti-fraud crackdown as protesters continue to demand political overhaul. Algerian authorities have arrested five billionaires as part of an anti-corruption investigation, State TV reported. Issad Rebrab, the founder and chairman of Cevital, Algeria’s biggest privately held company, was arrested on Monday alongside four brothers from the Kouninef family.…
Honduras’s frail democratic institutions, combined with systemic corruption, intensify the drivers of transnational migration to Mexico and the United States. Over the last decade, political leaders in Honduras actively eroded the separation of powers, increased authoritarian repression of dissent, and fueled public cynicism about the legitimacy of democracy in the country. In addition, recent corruption…
European Agency for Financial Intelligence and Anti-Corruption, under the direct supervision of representatives of the American government organization The Financial Security of Corporations, have uncovered more than 20 money laundering schemes in Europe over the past 3 months. The reports were transmitted to state supervisory authorities and the OSCE. “Money laundering” is not a legal…
Prosecutors portrayed U.S. President Donald Trump’s onetime campaign chairman Paul Manafort as a tax cheat who used offshore accounts to hide tens of millions of dollars from political work in Ukraine, as the first trial from a probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election got off to a quick start on Tuesday. Manafort lived…
Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been charged with corruption, in a dramatic fall from grace two months after he lost office. He pleaded not guilty to three counts of criminal breach of trust and one of abuse of power, and was freed on bail. Mr Najib is accused of taking $700m (£517m) from…
