Global Whistleblowers

Denmark betrayed its long-held reputation as being one of the world’s least-corrupt countries when its top court ruled against a bona fide whistleblower. Now, lawmakers are trying to get the country back on the right track. Parliament Member Karina Lorentzen...

Germany is a tale of two countries. It consistently scores very well in good government rankings, such as Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. Foreign aid agencies spend tens of millions of euros every year to teach emerging democracies about public...

Seeking to reverse 24 years of underachievement, UK lawmakers are working to repair the country’s broken whistleblower protection system. Mary Robinson, a Conservative Parliament member from the Manchester village of Cheadle, introduced a long-awaited reform bill in the House of...

The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), which is “the independent regulator of financial services conducted in or from” the Dubai International Financial Centre, introduced a regulatory regime for whistleblowing. The regime aims to strengthen the legal protection whistleblowers are afforded...

As of April 1, more public employees in British Columbia (B.C.) are protected under the Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA). The expansion of the law is part of a phased approach to implement PIDA and bring more agencies and organizations...

An investigating judge has dismissed British oil whistleblower Jonathan Taylor’s case, according to a March 16 article from BBC News. Taylor is “elated” by the news but discouraged that Monaco’s public prosecutor has launched an appeal to the decision. Background...

The City of Edinburgh Council received an increase in whistleblower complaints at the end of 2021, according to a March 7 article in The Edinburgh Reporter. The council uses Safecall, an “external whistle-blowing service for staff to bring forward allegations...

In a lifetime of major achievements, US Federal Judge Mark Wolf is on a mission to top them all. As a US federal prosecutor in the 1980s, Wolf’s Public Corruption Unit won more than 40 consecutive convictions, including for cronies...

The cultural acceptance of whistleblowers is a sensitive and even volatile topic that typically is avoided, particularly when discussing the issue in public. Yet, societal and historical forces continue to powerfully influence the treatment of people who take it upon...

France was given a second chance to pass a strong law to protect witnesses in the workplace from retaliation. Though receiving public praise, new legislation passed earlier this month does little to advance whistleblower protections in a country practically synonymous...