Global Whistleblowers

December 9 is the United Nations (UN) International Anti-Corruption Day, and this year’s theme is “Recover with Integrity.” The theme focused specifically on the corruption that has occurred during the pandemic. The UN is urging participants to post on social...

Young men and women throughout Eastern Europe today denounced corruption and proclaimed that crime and misconduct must be exposed in order for reliable and accountable democracies to have a chance to succeed. The youth are speaking with one voice –...

The hottest topic in the world of whistleblowing today is monetary rewards. Long unjustly dismissed by policy-makers as perverting the noble cause of citizen crime-fighting, financial incentives are now being offered in more than 10 countries in Europe, South America,...

The Working Group on Bribery of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD Working Group) has released its Phase 4 Report on the state of international anti-corruption and anti-bribery enforcement. The report primarily marks improvements and changes to enforcement...

Two embarrassing whistleblower retaliation cases, an unusually harsh report from the OECD, and an admission from a top public official that whistleblowers are “on your own” are seriously challenging the Netherlands’ commitment to protecting its own people from reprisals. On...

The Care Quality Commission (QCQ), the UK’s “independent regulator of health and social care,” conducted an investigation of a women's mental health facility in response to whistleblowers’ concerns, according to a November 4 article from BBC News. The report found a...

A report published by Protect, a UK whistleblowing charity, found that 41% of whistleblowers with COVID-19 related concerns were ignored by employers, according to an October 29 press release.  Protect conducted the research through their Advice Line for whistleblowers: the phone...

The European Central Bank (ECB) introduced “an enhanced internal whistleblowing framework” that includes a tool for whistleblowers to anonymously report concerns, according to an October 21 press release.   The tool can be used for “simple and secure reporting of potential breaches...

Scandal and corruption have followed Novartis non-stop along the entire arc of its 50-year history. Just a year after its corporate predecessor Ciba-Geigy was founded in 1970, the company’s dysentery drug clioquinol was pulled after it was linked to brain...

On October 21, Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese journalist who exposed widespread corruption in the Maltese government, was named the co-winner of the 2020 Allard Prize for International Integrity. She shares the prestigious award with whistleblower Howard Wilkinson, a former...