Global IssuesNews headlines for “Corruption”, page 8
INDIA: Civil Society Shows Its Muscle
- Inter Press Service
In his Independence Day address to the nation on Aug. 15 Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh vowed to fight corruption, but nationwide agitations since then demanding an effective ombudsman to check graft showed an unconvinced public.
Rallies Grow Across India for Jailed Activist
- Inter Press Service
Huge protests have taken place across India in support of a jailed anti-corruption campaigner who has been demanding a tough anti-graft law.
AFRICA: Emerging Trend Towards Establishing Offshore Tax Havens
- Inter Press Service
As several African governments examine the possibility of setting up their own 'offshore' financial centres, the trade name for tax havens, campaigners are calling for transparency and fair tax regimes.
EUROPE: ‘Rethink Rhetoric Against Islam’
- Inter Press Service
Conservative governments and centre-right parties in Europe were attacking multiculturalism and denigrating Muslim immigrants long before Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik used similar arguments to justify mass killings in Oslo and Utoya Island.
MEXICO: Activists Organise Against Spiralling Threats
- Inter Press Service
'Open the door! Open the door, you SOBs!' Policemen dressed in black, wearing balaclavas and carrying 'what I suppose were high-power rifles' broke down the door of the home of Efraín Bartolomé, a poet who lives on the south side of the Mexican capital. They had no warrant.
DR-CONGO: Widespread Impunity Undermines Upcoming Polls
- Inter Press Service
Controversy over its electoral process has dominated headlines on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the months preceding highly anticipated polls, but an international human rights group shifted the world's attention to another, not unrelated problem Wednesday - the country's feeble judicial system.
GUATEMALA: First Lady's Divorce Fails to Secure Presidential Bid
- Inter Press Service
The decision by the Constitutional Court of Guatemala to bar Sandra Torres, the former wife of President Álvaro Colom, from running in the Sept. 11 elections strengthens the national justice system, according to activists and analysts.
Court Pleadings Charge U.S. Complicity in Mexico's Drug War
- Inter Press Service
Late last week, the son of a top dog in Mexico's notorious Sinaloa drug cartel filed pleadings in a Chicago federal court accusing the U.S. government and its agencies of giving the cartel 'carte blanche to continue to smuggle tons of illicit drugs into Chicago and the rest of the United States'.
World Bank Unmoved as Allegations Build Around Official
- Inter Press Service
The World Bank, which has often pressed borrowing nations to adopt more robust financial transparency regulations, has refused to disclose the financial records of one of its senior officials despite allegations of corruption, abuse of authority and mismanagement of public funds while he served as a minister under the now toppled Hosni Mubarak regime in Egypt.
NIGERIA: Refined Oil Shortage Continues for Africa’s Largest Producer
- Inter Press Service
'We are suffering in the midst of plenty.' That was how Nelson Ilemchi summed up his plight as he spent an entire day queuing to buy kerosene. Since January Africa’s largest producer of crude oil has been experiencing a protracted nationwide scarcity of the refined product.
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