By developing and equipping a global network of investigative journalists and publishing their stories, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project exposes crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account.
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Useful organisations,
Legal Topic: Corruption,
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is an organisation that investigates and reports on stories across the world, as well as a network composed of hundreds of investigative reporters in different organisations. They have a secure platform where whistleblowers can submit tips and reports of suspected corruption.
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Useful organisations,
Legal Topic: Corruption,
Global Witness undertakes campaigns and investigations into corruption across a wide range of sectors. Their investigative reports can provide valuable evidence into corruption in different countries.
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Useful organisations,
Legal Topic: Corruption,
Global Integrity creates alliances with partners across the world: civil society organizations, governments, multi-stakeholder initiatives, donors, and others, helping them to design and implement innovative, learning-centered, and adaptive approaches to addressing complex governance-related development challenges.
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Useful organisations,
Legal Topic: Corruption,
Article 19 is an international organisation recognised for its advocacy of media freedom and for protecting against media restrictions, which includes protection of journalists in danger for reporting corruption.
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Data type: Useful organisations,
Legal Topic: Civil and political rights, Corruption,
In Tanzania, a civil society organisation challenged an electoral law that allowed political candidates to give gifts to voters (“takrima”). This was challenged because it facilitated corruption, leading candidates to start buying votes. The Tanzanian High Court found that the electoral law violated the rights to equal treatment and non-discrimination regarding political participation in the […]
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Data type: Legal citations,
Legal Topic: Corruption,
SERAP, a human rights organisation, brought a case against the Nigerian Government and Nigeria’s Universal Basic Education Commission to The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice. A key part of the complaint was that the Universal Basic Education Commission, which was responsible for funding basic education in Nigeria, had mismanaged the national […]
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Legal citations,
Legal Topic: Corruption,
In South Africa, the government decided to abolish an independent anti-corruption body and replace it with a body that wasn’t independent from the government. This was challenged for being unconstitutional. The South African Constitutional ruled that the decision to abolish an independent anti-corruption body undermined the effective investigation into corruption and violated the government’s duty […]
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Data type: Legal citations,
Legal Topic: Corruption,
Article 33 on “Just Administrative Action” states: 1. Everyone has the right to administrative action that is lawful, reasonable and procedurally fair. 2. Everyone whose rights have been adversely affected by administrative action has the right to be given written reasons. 3. National legislation must be enacted to give effect to these rights, and must: a. Provide for the review of administrative action […]
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Legal citations,
Legal Topic: Corruption,
