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• Tuesday, October 21st 2014 - 07:07 UTC

  Former Peruvian prosecutor named head of Transparency International

  

  Global anti-corruption campaigners at Transparency International elected Peruvian lawyer Jose Ugaz as it’s new head on Sunday marking a shift from quiet diplomacy in combating fraud and bribery toward more grassroots activism.

• Wednesday, December 5th 2012 - 17:04 UTC

  Corruption still ravages around the world, says Transparency International

  

  A growing outcry over corrupt governments forced several leaders from office last year, but as the dust has cleared it has become apparent that the levels of bribery, abuse of power and secret dealings are still very high in many countries.

• Wednesday, November 7th 2012 - 22:14 UTC

  Rousseff pledges combating corruption is “State policy” in Brazil

  

  Transparency International described corruption as “a plague which destroys lives, communities and countries, and feeds armed conflicts and wars”, during the opening in Brazil of the 15th International Anti Corruption Conference.

• Thursday, December 1st 2011 - 05:49 UTC

  Corruption continues to plague too many countries, says Transparency

  

  Corruption continues to plague too many countries around the world, according to Transparency International’s 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index released Wednesday. It shows some governments failing to protect citizens from corruption, be it abuse of public resources, bribery or secretive decision-making.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2011 - 08:13 UTC

  Mexico and Argentina, Latam companies most prone to pay bribes abroad says Transparency

  

  Bribing public officials when doing business abroad is a regular occurrence, according to a survey of 3,000 business executives from developed and developing countries.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2011 - 00:27 UTC

  Transparency blasts OECD on poor results from the Anti-Bribery Convention

  

  A new report from the anti-corruption organization Transparency International (TI), shows no improvement in the enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in the past year and warns that this could signal a dangerous loss of momentum in the fight against corruption.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2011 - 02:27 UTC

  Oil and gas companies report anti-corruption programs, but do they apply them?

  

  Oil and gas companies have improved the transparency of how they report revenues and information about anti-corruption programs but should take bolder actions to stop corruption, according to a new report released Monday by Transparency International (TI) and Revenue Watch Institute (RWI).

• Thursday, December 9th 2010 - 21:00 UTC

  One in four admit having paid bribes last year, says Transparency International

  

  Corruption has increased over the last three years, say six out of 10 people around the world, and one in four people report paying bribes in the last year. These are the findings of the 2010 Global Corruption Barometer, a worldwide public opinion survey on corruption, released on International Anti-Corruption Day, 9 December, by Transparency International (TI).

• Thursday, September 16th 2010 - 02:38 UTC

  Transparency demands more ‘anti-corruption’ action to fulfil development goals

  

  The global anti-corruption organisation Transparency International (IT), warns that the failure by governments to address corruption is threatening the fulfilment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It calls on governments, donors and non-governmental organisations to adopt anti-corruption measures in all their MDG action plans in order to reach the goals in the next five years and sustain progress beyond the 2015 timeline.