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United Nations urges “the dismantling of corruption's high walls”
The fight against corruption is a global concern requiring the broadest possible response to “dismantle its high walls”, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday, 9 December, in a message marking International Anti-Corruption Day (*). Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesGlobal Corruption Index scores: UK 14th place, Chile and Uruguay joint 21st and Argentina 107th place. One-hundred-and-seventh place. Still, I suppose the Argentinean politicians will keep on spinning the 'great Malvinas myth' to distract the populous away from corruption.
Dec 10th, 2014 - 09:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Removing all politicians wont solve the problem,
Dec 10th, 2014 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But,
it will go a long way to help it .
lolol
Perhaps it would be an idea if the UN were to stamp out its own internal corruption. The C-24 currently has 29 members. But there are only 17 non self-governing territories! How many of those 29 members have poor human rights records? At least 17. How many are members of the argie clique? 7. Has the C-24 ever told non self-governing territories what they need to do to get themselves removed from the list? Why has Ecuador provided the chair of the C-24 on three consecutive occasions? Why aren't countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Netherlands, Switzerland members of the C-24?
Dec 10th, 2014 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good point.
Dec 10th, 2014 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3 Conqueror
Dec 10th, 2014 - 07:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 021 of the 29 member states of the UN C24 are classified as 'not free' or 'partially free' by the 2014 Freedom in the World Survey.
The UK, US, Australia all left the C24 because of the militant attitude adopted by the majority of the member states that were more concerned with shoring up their own territorial integrity than with the right to self-determination of small colonies that wished to remain loyal to their colonial rulers.
The best way forward for the C24 is to invite North Korea to the forum and wait for it to implode.
United Nations urges “the dismantling of corruption's high walls”
Dec 10th, 2014 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ha, ha, ha!!!
If they ever tried that in TDC they had better bring oxygen masks and a f**kton of TNT!!!
Nice, Conq.
Dec 10th, 2014 - 08:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It would be nice if the United Nations also asked themselves these questions.
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