By Emma McIntosh When Dr. John O’Connor sounded alarms in 2006 about high levels of cancer in communities downstream of the Alberta oilsands, he began a 15-year battle against governments who denied the problem. O’Connor — who treated patients in…
A new report, Are Whistleblowing Laws Working? A Global Study of Whistleblower Protection Litigation, tracks the records of whistleblower laws in 38 countries and provides an unprecedented effort to understand the successes and shortcomings of whistleblower protection legislation worldwide, following a…
(Paris, February 26th 2021) – Two Congolese whistleblowers have revealed that their former employer, Afriland First Bank DRC, harbored networks engaged in money laundering and the circumvention of international sanctions, the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF) said today.…
House and Senate Democrats reintroduced legislation on Thursday to bolster whistleblower protections for employees of business and entities that received federal coronavirus relief funds. Reps. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., and Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., reintroduced the “COVID-19…
16th February 2021 Mr. Zelensky, President of Ukraine Dear President Zelensky, We, the undersigned organisations join our voices to this letter from the Board of Trustees of the Whistleblowing International Network (WIN) to urge your leadership to defend the integrity…
The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) has announced additional support from MacArthur Foundation for the continuation of its Corruption Anonymous project for another three years. The CORA project, which was launched in 2017, aims at mobilizing public…