How Will the Coronavirus Reshape Democracy and Governance Globally / US returns US$300m of 1MDB funds to Malaysia / Protection of Whistleblowers Vital During Covid-19

How Will the Coronavirus Reshape Democracy and Governance Globally? “Corruption undermines the effectiveness of public health responses, particularly if valuable resources are diverted from high-need areas or citizens are denied treatment if they refuse to pay bribes. (…) However, the crisis could also end up spurring new anticorruption measures. If corruption spikes rapidly when governments implement crisis measures, widespread public outrage may catalyze reforms that improve health governance and public accountability.” 

 

Frances Z. Brown / Saskia Brechenmacher / Thomas Carothers / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: https://bit.ly/3beYeEE 

 

 

US returns US$300m of 1MDB funds to Malaysia. "The amount of money stolen from the people of Malaysia is staggering, and we have been relentless in recovering assets that always should have been used for their benefit." said US Attorney Nick Hanna in a statement. 

 

CNA: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/us-returns-us-300m-of-1mdb-funds-to-malaysia-12642624 

 

 

Protection of Whistleblowers Vital During Covid-19. “Across the world, demands are growing for strong public accountability over responses by governments to the COVID-19 crisis – with the importance of whistleblowers, in particular, being vividly demonstrated as never before. Now the importance of whistleblower protection has been reinforced by a global statement following some dramatic mistakes by officials and authorities in their knee jerk reactions to the pandemic.” 

 

A J Brown/ Transparency Internationa Australia: https://transparency.org.au/protection-of-whistleblowers-vital-during-covid-19/