Global Whistleblowers

Today, Whistleblowing International, ANA LOGO, and the U.S.-based Whistleblower Network News,  National Whistleblower Center launched a GoFundMe campaign to support Fishrot whistleblower Jóhannes Stefánsson. Stefánsson is the former Director of Operations in Namibia for Icelandic fishing company Samherji. He worked with anti-corruption authorities and...

A rapid series of major events in Germany finally could begin to nourish a whistleblowing culture in one of Europe’s most secrecy-obsessed countries. The top two officials at Germany’s financial regulator, BaFin, were forced to resign last month in the...

The whistleblower revolution, and the anti-corruption movement along with it, has benefited society in many important and obvious ways. In countries and communities everywhere, food is safer, air and water are cleaner, elections are fairer, companies are more honest, and...

Berlin | analogo.de – The automotive supplier Robert Bosch leaves it to whistleblowers in its own company to hire a lawyer if they point out wrongdoing in the company. The Editor of analogo.de confirmed this fact by questioning a compliance...

The Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI) in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, hosted a two-day webinar series called “Annual Regional Multi-Beneficiary Training on Whistleblower Protection.” The events occurred on February 9 and 11 and were conducted under the European...

Chinese citizens are remembering COVID-19 whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang on the one-year anniversary of his passing, according to a February 7 article from NPR. Tributes to Dr. Li have poured in via Chinese social media, not only on the anniversary...

It has been two-and-a-half years since London’s Grenfell Tower went up in flames, killing 72 men, women and children. Draped in flammable insulation, the 24-story public housing project ignited shortly after midnight on June 14, 2017 and burned for three...

On January 7, Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) announced amendments to its “Directions for Encouraging the Public to Report Illegal Financial Activities by the Financial Supervisory Commission.” The amendments substantially increase the monetary amount of rewards available to whistleblowers who...

A Chinese journalist was sentenced to 4 years in prison for her reporting on the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, according to a December 28, 2020 article from the South China Morning Post. This is the latest known occurrence of retaliation...

Germany continues to behave as Europe’s most disingenuous country when it comes to protecting and valuing whistleblowers. German Human Rights Commissioner Bärbel Kofler last week voiced her support for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. She said she is “following with concern”...