It is a really bad sign when police find more than US$1 million in cash in the office of the Administrative Appellate Court head, particularly if his explanation is that he was going to give the money to a church and didn’t have “time” to do it. But for lawyers and prosecutors in Ukraine, the…
The Carter Center held a Freedom of Information (FOIA) summit in Africa last month to discuss the continent’s continuing struggles with citizen access to information. What was agreed upon? Tracking with findings from previous Global Integrity Reports, participants noted a need to go beyond broad rights to information (as guaranteed in the constitutions of many…
Global Integrity Report: 2009 clarification: It has come to our attention that a press release was issued locally in Trinidad & Tobago suggesting that the country had been added to Global Integrity’s Grand Corruption Watchlist. This is not the case. Readers with questions about our reporting in the country should feel free to send an…
Global Integrity is giving away $1000 in cash prizes to bloggers, designers and analysts who use our data. What do Global Integrity data say about an issue, country or region you care about? What is the story buried in that raw data? The Global Integrity Mashup Challenge is a search for original analysis of Global…
Post and Telecommunications of Kosovo (PTK) asked us for a chance to respond publicly to our new Reporter’s Notebook for Kosovo that appears as part of the Global Integrity Report: 2009. That Notebook recaps an already-reported controversy surrounding PTK, and we were happy to oblige PTK with an opportunity to express its views on the…
In Tonga, the Royal Commission of Inquiry is wrapping up its investigation into the tragic ferry accident of last August that killed 74 people. Global Integrity weighed in on the debate, using our locally reported data as the basis for a letter to the editor of the Matangi Tonga newspaper. The responses have been mixed…