Global Integrity welcomes Mohamed Abdelaziz to our Washington office as a visiting fellow. Mohamed is here as part of a Freedom House fellowship program called “The New Generation of Advocates.” When not visiting other NGOs, Mohamed works as project manager at the Arab Office for Law, where he coordinates a USAID funded project entitled “Towards…
By Galina StolyarovaOne day in April 2007, human rights lawyer Olga Tseitlina got a sudden call to a St. Petersburg police station. She had been asked to represent a client detained and fined for allegedly swearing in public. She soon discovered that police had used similar evidence against nearly 100 others. They had all been…
Global Integrity, an award-winning international non-profit organization dedicated to tracking governance and corruption trends around the world, is seeking interested journalists, researchers, social scientists, and other experts with a background in governance and corruption issues to prepare its Global Integrity Report: 2008. To apply, send a CV or resume with full contact information to info@globalintegrity.org…
Global Integrity contributor Thompson Ayodele writes in with an analysis of aid, public health campaigns, and the corruption that prevents medical care from reaching the people who need it most. Health, Africa’s struggle Foreign aid is flowing in in large amounts, but it’s not reaching the people By Thompson Ayodele After decades of neglect the…
Colombian news magazine Semana reports that rebel group FARC was deeply involved in politics in Ecuador and Venezuela, citing documents (confirmed by the AP) detailing correspondence between FARC leaders and politicians of Venezuela and Ecuador. Among the allegations: that FARC considered funding Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa’s 2006 campaign. Oversight and regulation of political financing in…
Global Integrity’s managing director Nathaniel Heller discusses the work required to move beyond democracies-in-name-only to truly accountable governments, in an op-ed published in the Washington Times. The Gap Between Elections and Democracy By Nathaniel HellerPublished in the Washington Times March 5, 2008 Troubling headlines in recent months from places as disparate as Pakistan, Kenya and…