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Two embarrassing whistleblower retaliation cases, an unusually harsh report from the OECD, and an admission from a top public official that whistleblowers are “on your own” are seriously challenging the Netherlands’ commitment to protecting its own people from reprisals. On...

How long does it take to fight the good fight? How long can one stand in the arena and continue the battle? For some whistleblowers, it can be decades, and William Sanjour is a case in point. For half his...

On November 10, 2020, my heart soared with hope while reading the editorial on the introduction of the Protect Brave Whistleblowers Act (H.R.8452) proposed by Representative Tulsi Gabbard September 30, 2020.  The editorial outlined that the proposed bill would reform...

On September 30, Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) introduced the Protect Brave Whistleblowers Act (H.R.8452), a bill that would reform a century-old piece of legislation consistently used as a weapon against whistleblowers. The 1917 Espionage Act bars any disclosure of classified...

Sara Thompson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, but she moved with her parents to Omaha, Nebraska, when she was nine months old. She also lived around Memphis, Tennessee, for an extended period but considered herself a Midwesterner and a "nomad,"...

On November 5, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced two separate whistleblower awards.  An award of over $3.6 million was awarded to a whistleblower for providing important information to the SEC on misconduct occurring abroad and for providing...

In January of 2009, federal employee whistleblowers were on the verge of obtaining effective legal protections.  For years federal employees were blocked from filing their whistleblower cases in federal court.  Instead, their fate rested in the hands of a three-person...

It makes sense that federal agencies have whistleblowers. Whistleblowers are individuals who have integrity, courage, honor, and a belief that the arc of justice will bend their way because truth is the touchstone on which they build their lives. It...

In recent times, it seems as if federal whistleblowers are in the news more than ever. From last year’s Ukraine whistleblower to COVID-19 whistleblowers like Dr. Rick Bright to the nurse whistleblower alleging mass hysterectomies at ICE facilities, all sorts of federal employees and...

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has generated profound global structural effects that cannot be easily reversed: It has been weakening governments, increasing social instability, intensifying poverty, and strengthening nonstate armed actors. The pandemic should be a wake-up call and a prompt...