Humor in anti-corruption campaigns / Bangladesh balancing secrecy and transparency / UNGASS grand corruption agenda

Corruption Should Be a Laughing Matter (Blog).  “There are plenty of other examples of anticorruption activists effectively using humor as part of their campaigns…A Chinese artist known as Badiucao has used satirical art to bring attention to the ruling party’s political corruption, including a famous “promotional poster” for the TV series House of Cards, with Xi Jinping sitting on the throne instead of series villain Frank Underwood. His art helped spark renewed criticism of the regime and is credited with inspiring political cartoons throughout Hong Kong’s democratic uprising against China’s controversial 2019 extradition bill.”

Brooke Davies/The Global Anticorruption Blog:  https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2021/06/14/corruption-should-be-a-laughing-matter/

 

Whistleblowing and Secrecy Law: Where is the Balance? (Opinion).  “The rationality of such colonial-time regressive laws [such as the Official Secrets Act] needs to be assessed against our constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press... our legal framework should also provide avenues where such disclosures in public interest by investigative journalists and whistleblowers can get legal protection.”

Taslima Yasmin/The Daily Star: https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/news/whistleblowing-and-secrecy-law-where-the-balance-2112365   

 

UNGASS 2021 ignores the grand corruption elephant but creates a pathway to improve the international framework (Blog).  “[In] April, almost a hundred civil society organisations called for creation of a special intergovernmental expert working group to do some in-depth work on gaps in the international legal framework and infrastructure to tackle globalised corruption, including grand corruption…As it turned out, UN member states did not create the proposed expert working group, but civil society efforts in that direction were not entirely in vain; the UNGASS political declaration did create a pathway for future UN discussions of gaps in the international framework”

Gillian Dell/Transparency International: https://www.transparency.org/en/blog/ungass-2021-ignores-grand-corruption-elephant-but-creates-pathway-improvement-international-framework