This summer, the world watched as Kenyans took to the streets in massive protests that were met with violent repression. Sparked by a new tax on everyday essentials, the protests reflected widespread ...

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Corruption is a scourge that hurts ordinary people every day across the Americas. And when they speak out about it, far too often they face retaliation. Almost two thirds of people that we surveyed ...

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, according to experts and businesspeople. The 2022 CPI analyses the ...

Cases of corruption rarely seem to be out of the news in Latin America and the Caribbean. Just in the last few years alone, several high profile cases have sent shockwaves through the region. However, ...

We define corruption as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. Corruption erodes trust, weakens democracy, hampers economic development and further exacerbates inequality, poverty, social ...

In many countries you can pay off police officers to ignore any crime, however horrific and devastating – it’s just a matter of price. In Zimbabwe a nine-year old girl was raped on her way to school ...

From bribes to the use of personal connections, from vote-buying to sextortion, corruption takes many forms in Asia. In our latest Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) – Asia, citizens are well aware of ...

From conflicts of interest in awarding government contracts to undue influence by business on politics, from bribes to the use of personal connections when accessing public services, corruption takes ...

There was no global convention aimed at curbing corruption, and no way to measure corruption or its impact at the global scale. In the early 1990s, corruption was a taboo topic. Many companies ...

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Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) is the specific right of Indigenous Peoples to decide on development projects that affect their collective rights. Indigenous communities’ approval of any such ...