This Resource Guide provides States with a framework for identifying and implementing an appropriate mix of sanctions and incentives for encouraging business integrity. It reflects the latest developments in the global anti-corruption landscape and contains case studies that serve to share information and practices and provide inspiration to States and the private sector.
The University of Basel's Centre for African Studies, the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute at the University of Freiburg and the Basel Institute on Governance are organising two workshops to deepen the exchange on issues of citizenship, with a focus on East Africa.
This is a guide for impact investors on how corruption can undermine environmental and social outcomes, and about how coordinating due diligence across business integrity and environmental and social workstreams can help identify these links. This guidance puts business integrity at the heart of impact investing.
The next Plenary Session of the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum will look at the challenges and good practices in gender-sensitive approaches to addressing environmental corruption. We will:
This document takes stock of recent progress (July 2023 to February 2024) in strengthening Ukraine’s anti-corruption ecosystem with a view to safeguarding Restoration projects. It covers:
Asset recovery tools are integral to combating corruption, organised crime, sanctions evasion and other profit-motivated crimes. However, in many participating States of the OSCE, the range of asset recovery tools available to law enforcement and criminal justice agencies is limited.
This Working Paper identifies legislative mechanisms in OSCE participating States that empower the state to confiscate suspected or proven proceeds of crime. The overall objective is to ascertain:
The Steering Committee meeting of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) under the Support to Zambia’s Multi-Agency Approach to Fighting Corruption programme on 20 March 2024 in Lusaka was a testimony to the strong leadership and commitment of Zambia’s key anti-corruption and accountability institutions to move ahead together to recover Zambia’s stolen assets.
This blog was originally published on the FCPA Blog, which was discontinued in February 2024.
Thankfully, the economist-led debates in the 1990s about whether corruption is the necessary grease in the wheels of business are long behind. But we would argue that many people, including those most affected by it and possibly even those that are in the anti-corruption business, still don’t fully grasp what corruption does to our world.
This blog was originally published on the FCPA Blog, which was discontinued in February 2024.
What is the responsibility and possible criminal liability of companies and their officials relating to human right violations allegedly committed abroad?
Should a CEO for example step down when a violation of financial or other conduct rules has occurred, which may even make the corporation complicit in terrorism financing or war crimes? Or should prosecution be a consequence of such transgression?
This blog was originally published on the FCPA Blog, which was discontinued in February 2024.
Last week’s publication of our 10th annual Basel AML Index – which assesses money laundering risks around the world and ranks jurisdictions on how well they’re addressing them – has triggered two types of response.