Global IssuesNews headlines for “Corruption”, page 17
AFRICA: Women Traders Confronting Sexual Harassment at Borders
- Inter Press Service
Harassment and sexual exploitation by border officials seeking bribes constitute the biggest obstacles for female informal cross-border traders in Africa, according to a United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) research study launched on Sep 21.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Paying for Social Protection
- Inter Press Service
Despite the Southern Africa region sustaining an annual growth rate of six percent, the U.N. Summit on the Millennium Development Goals will hear that the majority of Southern Africans remain among the poorest people in the world.
CHINA: Journalists Risk Their Lives to Expose Corruption
- Inter Press Service
Despite what are often overwhelming obstacles, a gutsy minority of investigative reporters in China continues to expose official corruption and criminal behaviour. But they do so at their own peril.
NEPAL: Adoption Suspension Leaves Children in Limbo
- Inter Press Service
A big question marks looms over the future of many Nepali children in various child homes in the country in the wake of the suspension by 11 countries of their child adoption programmes for this Himalayan nation.
Scarce Water Diverted by Greased Palms
- Inter Press Service
The battle to resolve the global water crisis is being grossly undermined by bad governance: bribery, extortion, embezzlement and high-level corruption.
RWANDA: Genocide Ideology and Sectarianism Laws Silencing Critics?
- Inter Press Service
Among its unstable and conflict-ridden neighbours, Rwanda stands out. It has been pegged as a model of development and one of Africa’s success stories: Since the 1990’s, when a civil war ravaged the country, average incomes have doubled, its people have become healthier and less hungry and it has the highest proportion of women parliamentarians worldwide. Yet, maintaining this stability is a government accused of muzzling its opponents and committing human rights abuses.
GUATEMALA: New Challenges for Anti-Corruption Commission
- Inter Press Service
New challenges and a long list of shocking cases involving hidden power structures are faced by the new head of the United Nations-mandated International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).
CORRUPTION-PERU: Gov't Tries to Track Down Millions from Convicted Officials
- Inter Press Service
The Peruvian government will try to track down funds hidden away by former officials of the Alberto Fujimori regime (1990-2000) and others sentenced for corruption.
Q&A: 'Corruption is an Extraordinary Danger'
- Inter Press Service
'I still view corruption as an extraordinary danger' to the country, as its 'corrosive power' makes it a matter of 'national security,' said Esteban Morales, who was expelled from the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) after publishing an article warning of its pervasive effects.
Imprisonment of Judge Reflects Poorly on Venezuelan Justice
- Inter Press Service
'One day more, one day less,' says María Lourdes Afiuni when she says hello or goodbye to her thousands of followers on Twitter. The Venezuelan judge has spent the last eight months in prison, because she decided that a defendant should be released on bail pending trial.
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