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30 May 2014

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UNODC co-organises 4th Commonwealth Anti-Corruption Regional Conference in Ghana

The Fourth Commonwealth Regional Conference for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Africa opened in Accra, Ghana, on 28 May 2014. The conference is organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat, in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC), Ghana’s Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the Economic and Organised Crime Office.

The Conference theme is “Coordinating Anti-Corruption Agenda within the Commonwealth.” Participating are 17 Commonwealth African Countries, including Nigeria, Cameroun, Mozambique, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Botswana.

The five-day conference, which was opened by President John Dramani Mahama, seeks to give the Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies the unique opportunity to forge some common understanding of the tasks that lie ahead of them as anti-corruption institutions and to share invaluable experiences.

Read the story in Ghana News Agency.

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Guyana’s compliance with the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption and the UNCAC (Part 1)

Former Auditor General and President of Transparency Institute Guyana Inc, Anand Goolsarran, participated in a five-day conference of the International Consortium of Government Financial Management in Miami, Florida, 18 to 23 May 2014. He presented a paper on “Guyana’s compliance with the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption” to about 300 participants mainly from Africa and the Caribbean.
 
Read the first part of Mr Goolsarran’s paper in Stabroek News.