“When I come to another country, I never ask whether the laws are good or bad. I only ask if they are implemented”, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, “Doomed City”. A systematic violation of the rights of attorneys has long become a tragic pattern in Ukrainian society. Despite the guarantees of the rights of attorneys’ established…
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…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The 2018 rewrite of the ACM code of ethics and professional conduct has brought it up-to-date with new technologies and societal demands. This code supports the ethical conduct of computing professionals through a set of guidelines for positively working in the…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking into charges that some of the largest multinational OEMs of medical imaging equipment allegedly paid bribes to government officials in China to secure equipment sales, according to an article published June 4 in Reuters. The SEC investigation includes GE, Siemens, and Philips, and is part of a broader…
In a report published today on corruption prevention in Latvia in respect of members of parliament, judges and prosecutors, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption group (GRECO) regrets the lack of measures concerning regulation on lobbying, parliamentary ethics and conflicts of interest. Despite draft amendments which are reportedly geared towards enhancing transparency of law making, as well as…
Whatever its faults, American culture has a strong aversion to white-collar corruption. Corporate scandals like Enron shock us to our core. But in many parts of the world, Enron-like fraud is par for the course. Throughout the Middle East, corruption runs rampant in the business world. High-class thieves are aided and abetted by politicians whose…
Over the last eight years, China has cracked down on bribery and corruption, particularly in its investigations and prosecutions of public officials, but what about corporate enforcement? Corruption, according to Chinese President Xi Jinping, remains the greatest threat to the Communist Party’s survival, and according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2018, which was published in January…
The cannabis industry has a corporate governance problem. And it’s an issue that marijuana executives can ill afford to ignore. This can be especially troublesome for execs at publicly traded firms, which risk alienating investors and consumers. Corporate governance issues are commonplace in an emerging industry such as cannabis, where company founders can have blemishes on their…
