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Student Writing Competition:
CEELI
Alumni/ae Association Announced the 2001
Student Writing Competition --
The theme of the competition
this year is The Role of the Rule
of Law in Addressing Corruption in the Emerging Democracies of Central
and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
This competition is open to all law students attending universities
in ACN countries. Deadline for submission is before June 1, 2001.
Get more
information about competition requirements and guidance on the
ABA/CEELI website
USAID
Strategy to Assist Countries in Combating Corruption --
USAID's Europe and Eurasia Bureau has recently formulated a draft
anti-corruption strategy and invites your comments. Putting transparency
at the heart of all existing strategic objectives, the draft calls
for balancing public education, governance and law enforcement interventions.
Also, the strategy proposes in-depth political assessments to focus
on patronage networks and how they relate to the political environment
in specific countries.
Visit USAID anti-corruption
web page to review the strategy and e-mail your comments.
Executive
Summary in Russian. (PDF format)
On-line
Discussion by the Development Forum of the World Bank :
Building
Coalitions in the Fight Against Corruption in Africa --
The Development Forum of the World Bank is hosting an e-mail discussion
on Building Coalitions in the Fight Against Corruption in Africa.
Even though the discussion is primarily focused on Africa, there
are many ideas and comments that can be interesting and useful for
practitioners and researchers in other regions.
You can join the discussion or view posted messages by visiting
the Development
Forum website.
Ukraine:
Partnerships
for Integrity --
Information on the
activities and accomplishments of the Ukrainian Partnerships for
Integrity in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Lviv have been updated.
All copies of the newsletter published by the Ukraine National Coalition
for Integrity (the network group for the three partnerships) are
available in Russian and English, as well as Action Plans, and a
new Annual Report from the Kharkiv Partnership. The first
Annual Report of the Kharkiv Citizens Advocacy Office is also available.
To get more information visit the
Partnerships' website.
Poland:
Corruption
in Everyday Experience in Poland --
The Polish "Against Corruption" Program posted a report
of a survey entitled Corruption in Everyday Experience in Poland.
The survey was conducted nationwide in 2001 with the support of
the Ford Foundation and the World Bank.
To get the text of the report, visit
the Polish
Against Corruption Program website.
Poland:
National
Day of Civil Action Against Corruption in Poland --
In Poland, 27 May 2001 has been proclaimed as a
National Day of Civil Action Against Corruption in Poland by the
Programme "Against Corruption," TI Poland, and the Social
Communication Foundation. Signatures are being collected for a letter
to politicians, asking them to state clearly and concretely what
their exact plans are to counteract corruption. The goal is
to sensitize politicians and society to anti-corruption issues before
the upcoming parliamentary elections, so that candidates can be
held accountable for their pre-election promises. There is a call
for special events, such as street happenings at places where signatures
will be collected. Special information packages are being sent to
persons who would like to lead such actions in their neighborhoods.
Later, all electoral committees will be addressed in writing. After
the elections, once a year, there will be an "accounting for"
conference organized.
Get more information on Polish
Against Corruption website.
Poland:
Seminar
"Legal Regulations and Corruption --
The Polish "Programme
"Against Corruption" organized a seminar on "Legal
Regulations and Corruption" on 25 April 2001 in Warsaw to discuss
the existing law and its consequences for corrution practices.
The seminar proposed changes to provide for better transparency
and accountability. One presentation, presented by well-known lawyers,
analyzed selected regulations that encourage corruption.
Another presentation focused on mechanisms to fight corruption.
It was prepared by the anti-corruption unit of the regional police
in Katowice together with the Criminal Police Coordination Office
in Warsaw. Presentations were followed by commentaries by the representatives
of Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and Legal Programme of Batory
(Soros) Foundation.
Get more information on the Polish
Against Corruption website.
Hungary:
Greasing the Wheels:
The Parliamentary Enquiry into the Hungarian Oil Scandals
--
A new eBook by Gusztav Kosztolanyi
analyzes roots of corruption in Hungary based on the Hungary Oil
Committee efforts to establish the facts surrounding a number of
cases of oil-related tax fraud in Bekes County and elsewhere in
Hungary. The Committee was charged with the task of succeeding where
the police and other investigative authorities had conspicuously
failed. One of the paradoxes of the oil frauds is that they were
allowed to continue for so long, and that the legislation adopted
to eliminate the type of crime involved proved inadequate time and
time again. Fraud perpetrated on such a massive scale, with entire
trainloads of fuel oil being imported, required wide-ranging complicity
for purely logistical reasons. The "oil-bleaching" scam
was public knowledge, and yet the authorities appeared powerless
to tackle it.
Read more on the Central
Europe Review website.
GEORGIA:
Guidelines
for the National Anti-Corruption Program
The website sponsored by TI-Georgia posted the Presidential Decree
On Drawing Up the National Anti-Corruption Program (Decree #296
of 9 July 2000) and the Guidelines for the National Anti-Corruption
Program. TI-Georgia invited citizens to send their comments and
suggestions related to the Guidelines. You can read documents and
comments or post your own on the dedicated website.
Read also an article, Georgia’s
Anti-Corruption Campaign Enters Crucial Phase, by Dimitri Bit-Suleiman
posted by the EurasiaNet on April 11. The article discussed new
developments of the Georgian Government in its anti-corruption campaign.
In mid-March, the Georgian president opened a new phase in the anti-corruption
effort by signing a decree authorizing the formation of a 12-member
coordinating council.
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