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Transparency

News, comment and features on transparency in the developing world, including fighting corruption and investigating governments and businesses  

February 2019

  • A displaced Yemeni girl drinks water in a camp set up for people who fled Hodeidah.

    Billions of UK aid failing to reduce poverty, report finds

    Shortfall in standards casts doubt on transparency of Britain’s aid spending

January 2019

  • Australian money

    The transparency project
    Liberal and Labor parties urged to disclose political donations in real time

  • FILES-US-IT-LIFESTYLE-ADVERTISING-FACEBOOK<br>(FILES) A file illustration picture taken on April 28, 2018 shows the logo of social network Facebook displayed on a screen and reflected on a tablet in Paris. - Facebook said September 26, 2018it now has 300 million daily users of “stories,” a format inspired by Snapchat, and would now begin delivering ads with these visual messages.The announcement shows Facebook is making strides in this new format which allows people to share videos or photos with emojis and augmented reality options that could allow users to draw eyeglasses or hats on faces, and which disappear after 24 hours. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images

    Facebook restricts campaigners’ ability to check ads for political transparency

December 2018

  • Voters queue at a polling station in Maputo

    Mozambique's anti-fraud drive calls on civil servants to prove they are alive

  • Protests after top Pakistan court commutes death sentence of Asia Bibi<br>epa07181863 People hold an effigy of Asia Bibi, a Christian accused of blasphemy, whose death sentence was annulled by the Supreme court, during a rally to mark the Prophet Muhammad's birth anniversary, in Karachi, Pakistan, 21 November 2018. Radical Islamists have been protesting in a number of Pakistani cities against the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the death sentence of Christian woman Asia Bibi, who had been convicted in 2010 of blasphemy. EPA/SHAHZAIB AKBER

    MPs voice fears over £1.28bn aid fund amid claims of links to torture

November 2018

  • Thomas Thabane

    Lesotho MPs demand to double their pay

    Legislators are already paid more than 18 times as much as the average factory worker
  • A ferry linking Sakhalin with mainland Russia.

    UN shipping agency accused of secrecy over maritime pollution

    IMO ‘susceptible to influence from private interests and certain states’ say campaigners
  • Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández, author of A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing 43 Students, published by Verso Books

    Small Changes
    ‘My father's murderers are still free’: taking on Mexico's violent underworld – podcast

    Investigative journalist Anabel Hernández has risked her life to expose corruption. She tells Lucy Lamble why staying silent is not an option

September 2018

  • A young girl looks through the broken window of her school classroom in Chipata, Zambia.<br>S196DA A young girl looks through the broken window of her school classroom in Chipata, Zambia.

    Calls for UK to overturn aid freeze to Zambia despite corruption claims

  • Zambian President Edgar Lungu at a campaign rally in Lusaka in August 2016

    Zambia sacks minister over claims UK aid cash was embezzled

June 2018

  • In India the British Prosperity Fund was used to help fund activities to support solar energy.

    UK Foreign Office ranks among world's worst on revealing how aid is spent

    Annual index on major international donors rates Whitehall department as ‘poor’, though DfID scores highly

April 2018

  • Joseph Muscat with T May and the Queen

    The Daphne Project
    Daphne Project: MEPs and authors crank up pressure on Maltese authorities

    Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Tom Watson among those calling for more to be done to investigate murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia

March 2018

  • Soldiers of ONUCI Ghanbatt 3 participate in Sexual Exploitation and Awareness training.

    Women's rights and gender equality
    'Glib': UK criticised for failing to give to fund for survivors of UN sexual abuse

  • A demonstrator in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, protests following the murder of land rights activist Berta Cáceres

    'Attacks and killings': human rights activists at growing risk, study claims

February 2018

  • A sign is seen above a branch of Oxfam, in central London, Britain February 13, 2018. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

    Chair of Oxfam International arrested on corruption charges in Guatemala

    Juan Alberto Fuentes detained over charges relating to his time as Guatemala’s finance minister, in fresh scandal for organisation embroiled in sexual exploitation allegations

January 2018

  • A child in a surgical instrument workshop in Sialkot, Pakistan, shows a spoon-shaped curette he has just finished polishing

    Trafficking in focus
    NHS admits doctors may be using tools made by children in Pakistan

    Closer scrutiny demanded as NHS supplier concedes surgical instruments in routine use could be product of child labour

November 2017

  • A man walks past an Amnesty International portrait of Nigerian author Ken Saro Wiwa in Edinburgh as ..<br>A man walks past an Amnesty International portrait of Nigerian author Ken Saro Wiwa in Edinburgh as the Commonwealth Heads of Government began their meetings October 24. Ken Saro Wiwa was executed in Nigeria in 1995, leading to Nigeria's suspension from the Commonwealth. - PBEAHUMQBEI

    Amnesty seeks criminal inquiry into Shell over alleged complicity in murder and torture in Nigeria

  • First secretary of state Damian Green

    May under fire from MPs for mishandling Damian Green inquiry

October 2017

  • International Development Committee Tuesday 24 October 2017 Meeting started at 9.46am, ended 12.31pm 10:14:42 Witness(es): Rt Hon Priti Patel MP, Secretary of State for International Development

    No Foreign Office takeover of international aid budget, says Priti Patel

  • Margaret Hodge

    Global laundromat
    Azerbaijan Laundromat shows UK is choice of crooks and despots, says Hodge

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