Global Whistleblowers

Denmark made history last June when it became Europe’s first country to pass a whistleblower protection law to comply with new EU rules. Media outlets, law firms and anti-corruption advocates offered their praise. The compliments came too soon. Today, in...

Another European nation’s new whistleblower law is drawing heavy criticism for not adequately protecting whistleblowers. Pieter Omtzigt, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s General Rapporteur on the protection of whistleblowers, stated that Malta’s whistleblower reform law is “not...

On Tuesday, December 14 at 12pm Eastern Standard Time, the National Whistleblower Center will host a LinkedIn Live event with Whistleblowing International. The discussion will focus on how European Union (EU) Member States have been faring in implementing the EU...

On December 7, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power will host a Summit for Democracy Event entitled “All Hands on Deck: Innovating Together to Combat Transnational Corruption.” The event, which is free to attend with registration, will...

With only two weeks before an important deadline, at least seven European countries including Germany and Italy likely will fail to pass a new whistleblower law to comply with new EU rules. An EU Directive on whistleblower protection was passed...

In response to a Europe-wide campaign, Latvia has become the first EU country to include climate-related violations in its proposed whistleblower protection law. Climate violations were absent from Latvia’s first draft law released last spring. Following a series of calls...

Peru has long been one of the world’s most dangerous countries for activists and indigenous leaders. At least 57 environmental activists were murdered there from 2002-14, according to Global Witness, punctuated by the shooting deaths of four indigenous Ashaninka leaders...

It’s almost cliché to say that a whistleblower protection law is among the most-ignored pieces of legislation in the world. Most public agencies do not have the knowledge, experience or political will to put these policies into practice. But when...

Danish lawmakers seem to have forgotten about Hans Bøgesvang Riis. He’s the lawyer who was fired in 2013 after reporting unprofessionalism and poor working conditions at Denmark’s National Board of Workplace Injuries. Riis, who tried but failed to be reinstated,...

Research by WNN reveals that the agency in Kosovo tasked with combating corruption and overseeing whistleblower cases in the public sector fails to keep adequate records on case outcomes. Kosovo’s Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA in English, AKK for Ajencia Kundër Korrupsionit...