Bribery victims compensation / Ending poverty and corruption / Mongolia CPI assessment

Recovering Damages for Corruption — Bribery Victims (Blog).  “In drafting the UN Convention Against Corruption, governments agreed quickly and without dissent upon what is now article 35. It requires parties to ensure their domestic law permit any person or entity harmed by corruption to “initiate legal proceedings against those responsible for the damage to obtain compensation.” Yet what evidence there is shows article 35’s promise remains largely unfulfilled.”

Richard Messick/The Global Anticorruption Blog: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2021/04/21/recovering-damages-for-corruption-bribery-victims/

 

We cannot end poverty without ending corruption (Opinion).  “Although some scholars view corruption as an enabler of development rather than an obstacle, particularly at an early stage of modernisation and development, numerous studies on corruption concluded that communities incur substantial economic and social costs as a result of it. The use of public office for private gains always benefits a powerful few, while imposing huge costs on large sections of society.”

Ismail Ali/The Daily Star: https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/news/we-cannot-end-poverty-without-ending-corruption-2085341  

 

Assessment on Mongolian Corruption Perceptions Index for 2020.  “In this interview, [O. Batbayar, CEO of Transparency International Mongolia] outlined what Mongolia needs to improve indicators: approve the law on political parties, the law on the state-owned industries, and the whistleblower protection Act, which disclose corruption actions and the law on mining transparency, and solve issues to create a legal framework for the disclosure of end-user and beneficiary information, and ensure that the buying process is free of corruption.”

Baljmaa. T/Montsame News Agency: https://www.montsame.mn/en/read/262183