Global Whistleblowers

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”...

In a shocking story that has yet to receive mainstream media attention, a whistleblower says the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) worked with their Danish counterparts to spy on many European countries. The NSA eventually used the arrangement to snoop...

Representatives from this year’s postponed International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress have approved a number of 2020 Marseille Congress motions with groundbreaking provisions for whistleblowers. The 2020 Congress was originally scheduled for June of 2020 but...

Last year German citizens provided information to US authorities in 44 whistleblower cases, because they believed nobody in Germany would listen to them if they pointed out misconduct in the financial sector and other industries. Germans are numerically in second...

In what very well could be the first case of its kind anywhere, a high-ranking company executive in Malaysia has been arrested and criminally charged with whistleblower retaliation. Wearing a business suit and trying to hide his face behind a...