Global Whistleblowers

Iceland’s largest fishing company tried to silence a whistleblower who had information about an alleged multimillion-dollar bribery scheme by having him involuntarily committed to a hospital, Africa Confidential has reported. Samherji established a secretive group of employees known as the...

A whistleblower working for Ireland’s Department of Health alleges that there was a lack of financial reporting with regards to funds given to the Health Service Executive, the country’s healthcare system. According to an article in the Irish Examiner, the...

A new report by Mary Lawlor, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, calls for increased whistleblower protections as a key human rights mechanism. The report recognizes whistleblowers as human rights defenders and recommends...

European Union officials have reprimanded 26 of the EU’s 27 countries for failing to meet Brussels’ deadline to enact new protections for whistleblowers. The action further demonstrates the countries’ already weak commitment to shield corruption witnesses from retaliation. Known as...

A Ukrainian whistleblower’s case received a landmark judgment from an appeals court. According to an article from The Solidarity Center, an appeals court recently confirmed a lower court decision from 2021 that deemed a whistleblower had been illegally fired in...

Anti-corruption advocates universally praised the passage of new whistleblower protection rules by the European Union in 2019. Publicly, they used words like “victory” and “achievement.” Privately, some called the new rules “a miracle.” Many experts said the new protections were...

On January 20, Latvia passed into national law a whistleblower law, in accordance with the October 2019 European Union whistleblowing directive. Whistleblower advocates are praising the Latvian law because it includes protections specifically for climate whistleblowers. The EU whistleblowing directive...

On February 17, the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) is hosting a virtual panel discussion entitled “Whistleblower Protection in Action: How to Shield Workplace Witnesses from Retaliation.” The event, which features top international experts on whistleblower protection, is free and open...

Nearly three years after local media declared him an “overnight public hero and role model,” Gjorgji Ilievski finally has obtained justice. An appeals court in Skopje has ruled that officials are required to investigate the corruption allegations raised by the...

Jamaica’s Auditor General’s Department recently published its Annual Report 2021, which breaks down financial transactions and statements of the Jamaican government during the 2020-2021 financial year. The agency reports that it received a higher number of whistleblower complaints during this...