(March 16, 2004) “The majority of the debts that Iraq has inherited from the regime of Saddam Hussein, I believe, are odious in law, and thus not legally enforceable.”
Interview: Iraq hopes to reach debt reduction deal this year
(March 16, 2004) Iraq’s finance minister said on Tuesday Baghdad hoped to finalise a deal to ease its massive debts this year, despite splits among creditors over how much debt relief to grant a country so rich in oil.
Three strikes against graft: assessing the impact of high-profile corruption
(March 15, 2004) Discussion paper on the Lesotho highlands bribery prosecutions.
At Goliath’s feet: the Lesotho corruption and bribery trials
(March 15, 2004) Barrister Fiona Darroch provides an overview of the landmark Lesotho Highlands Water Project corruption trials and addresses some of the wider implications for the international community.
Three strikes against graft
(March 15, 2004) A paper delivered to the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) seminar on the impact of
high-profile corruption cases in Lesotho, Mozambique and South Africa, held in Gauteng, South Africa, March 15-17, 2004.
U.N. report suggests Canada pay reparations
(March 12, 2004) A draft United Nations report says Canada should consider paying reparations for the immigrant tax once levied on Chinese and to blacks ousted from a town in 1970.
Battling ‘an overindulgence in bribery’
(March 12, 2004) A report by Interfax claims 56 percent of Russians think that bribery and corruption are among the biggest problems in the country. A large majority, 82 percent, think that Russia will not be able to eradicate corruption in the foreseeable future.
African legislators wage war against corruption
(March 11, 2004) This week, parliamentarians across Africa gathered in Abuja, Nigeria for a two-day conference on corruption. Under the auspices of African Parliamentarians Against Corruption (APNAC), participants were expected to debate questions such as the role of parliaments in preventing crimes of laundering and the trafficking of minerals, money and humans, and the establishment of preventive mechanisms and the role of national parliaments in helping to recover looted wealth stashed in other countries, particularly in the West.
‘Anti-corruption’ conviction reveals Communist Party power struggles
(March 11, 2004) An important corruption case has been brewing in China since 1995 and is now finally coming to light.
Interview with Iraq’s minister of trade
(March 7, 2004) According to Harvard-educated Ali Allawi, Iraq’s first trade minister in the post-Saddam Hussein era, the country urgently needs to establish stability, and then can work to forge new economic bonds across the region and the world.
We’ll conquer corruption, declares Nevers Mumba
(March 6, 2004) We want to win the fight against corruption at all costs but we will also ensure that fair justice is given to those implicated. We want justice in our fight against corruption and our men and women in the courts of law are aware of the challenge.
Public trust in government’s anti-corruption efforts rates low
(March 5, 2004) They’ve promised robust economic reform, a better future for the masses and honest, upright government. But the latest generation of Chinese leaders keeps colliding with a problem that won’t go away: People simply don’t trust them.
Japan considers forgiving part of Iraq’s debt, Nikkei reports
(March 5, 2004) Japan’s government is considering forgiving at least $3 billion of the $7 billion owed to it by Iraq, the Nikkei English News reported, without saying where it obtained the information.
Must the show go on?
(March 4, 2004)With Aristide seemingly ousted, American and French troops have once again landed in Haiti to run the island’s affairs, writes Gamal Nkrumah.
World Bank president eyes Iraq debt relief
(March 4, 2004) Creditors are likely to forgive $80 billion to $90 billion of Iraq’s $120 billion debt owed to donor nations, said World Bank President James Wolfensohn.
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