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3 days ago · Corruption remains a significant challenge to the stability, development, and well-being of jurisdictions worldwide. To address this issue, the United Nations Convention against Corruption, the sole legally binding universal anti-corruption instrument, promotes cooperation among its signatories to combat this transnational crime. Over the past two decades, experience-sharing and capacity ...
19 hours ago · Early life in Somalia Ayaan was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1969. Her father, Hirsi Magan Isse, was a prominent member of the Somali Salvation Democratic Front and a leading figure in the Somali Revolution. Shortly after she was born, her father was imprisoned due to his opposition to Siad Barre ’s Communist government. Hirsi Ali's father was an intellectual, a dissident and a devout ...
3 days ago · This book presents new socio-legal perspectives and insights on the social life of corruption and anticorruption in authoritarian regimes.This book takes up the case of Uzbekistan—an authoritarian regime in Central Asia and one of the most corrupt countries in the world according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index—and examines the corruption that developed in a ...
4 days ago · In 1991 Hazare launched the Bhrashtachar Virodhi Jan Andolan (BVJA, People's Movement against Corruption), a popular movement to fight against corruption in Ralegaon Siddhi. In the same year he protested against the collusion between 40 forest officials and timber merchants.
3 days ago · The establishment of a republican form of government would not of itself provide protection against such characteristics: the representatives of the people might betray their trust; one segment of the population might oppress another; and both the representatives and the public might give way to passion or caprice. The possibility of good ...
1 day ago · Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (UK: / ˌ d ɒ s t ɔɪ ˈ ɛ f s k i /, US: / ˌ d ɒ s t ə ˈ j ɛ f s k i, ˌ d ʌ s-/; Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, romanized: Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevskiy, IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj] ⓘ; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian ...
19 hours ago · Watch on. "All the Queen's Horses" is a documentary film directed by Kelly Richmond Pope. The film investigates the largest municipal fraud in American history, committed by Rita Crundwell. Crundwell embezzled $53.7 million from Dixon, Illinois over two decades. As city comptroller, she used the funds to create a leading quarter horse breeding ...
