Global Whistleblowers

There’s a lot more to writing an effective whistleblower protection law than including the correct legal phrasing. Words matter, but so does the meaning behind the words. Whistleblowing International, European Center for Whistleblower Rights, and the Center for Whistleblower Rights...

Johánnes Stefánsson is the key figure in the Fishrot scandal, a wide-reaching exposé that has resulted in the resignation of multiple Namibian government officials. The scandal revolves around the payment of bribes from an Icelandic fishing company, Samherji, to government...

Blowing the whistle on corporate wrongdoing often leads to employee firings, lawsuits, and a lot of bad blood between management and labor. Arbitrator Alan Levy has seen it all in his almost 30 years of negotiating mediation and arbitration settlements...

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...