In many countries you can pay off police officers to ignore any crime, however horrific and devastating – it’s just a matter of price. In Zimbabwe a nine-year old girl was raped on her way to school ...

We define corruption as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. Corruption erodes trust, weakens democracy, hampers economic development and further exacerbates inequality, poverty, social ...

Corruption is a scourge that hurts ordinary people every day across the Americas. And when they speak out about it, far too often they face retaliation. Almost two thirds of people that we surveyed ...

There was no global convention aimed at curbing corruption, and no way to measure corruption or its impact at the global scale. In the early 1990s, corruption was a taboo topic. Many companies ...

A beneficial owner is the real person who ultimately owns, controls or benefits from a company or trust fund and the income it generates. The term is used to contrast with the legal or nominee company ...

We have 90+ Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs) across 60 countries which provide free and confidential legal advice. They encourage and support people to safely report corruption, access public ...

We asked over 114,000 people in 107 countries for their views on corruption. Approximately 1,000 people from each of 107 countries were surveyed between September 2012 and March 2013. Five hundred ...

Secure and diverse funding enables Transparency International to undertake its vital work, maintain its independence and reputation, and operate effectively. We value all contributions to our work and ...

Cases of corruption rarely seem to be out of the news in Latin America and the Caribbean. Just in the last few years alone, several high profile cases have sent shockwaves through the region. However, ...

These results show a public sobered by a financial crisis precipitated by weak regulations and a lack of corporate accountability. The 2009 Global Corruption Barometer presents the main findings of a ...

Our vision is of a world in which government, politics, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption. In order to get there, our mission is to stop corruption and ...

Everyday abuse of entrusted power by public officials in their interactions with ordinary citizens, who often are trying to access basic goods or services in places like hospitals, schools, police ...