National Whistleblower Day
The National Whistleblower Day is held on July 30th every year. This is where whistleblowers across the globe are acknowledged, and keynote speakers announce their future plans for whistleblower protection.
Petition Urges Congress to Establish National Whistleblower Appreciation Day Permanently
A petition calling for Congress to permanently designate July 30 as National Whistleblower Appreciation Day launched last week. The petition asks Congress to mandate that every executive agency recognizes National Whistleblower Day every year by promoting awareness about whistleblower rights...
Senate Unanimously Passes Resolution Designating July 30 National Whistleblower Appreciation Day
Today, the United States Senate unanimously passed a resolution designating July 30, 2020, as “National Whistleblower Appreciation Day.” This is the eighth consecutive year in which Congress has recognized the day. This year’s resolution was once again spearheaded by Senator...
NGO’s Celebrate World Whistleblower Day
Today marks World Whistleblower Day, a day to celebrate whistleblowers around the globe. Whistleblowers put their jobs, reputation, and sometimes even lives at stake to expose the truth for the greater good. This day serves to commemorate their achievements while...
News roundup covers whistleblowers in tech, government and on Capitol Hill
A round up of whistleblower news. Whistleblower rewarded for exposing security flaws. From The New York Times The government said the video surveillance software it bought from Cisco was “of no value” because it did not “meet its primary purpose:...
Appreciating whistleblowers: “I was one sister they could not stop.”
Joe Davidson, who writes about the federal government for The Washington Post, points out that there are a lot of so-called appreciation days. There’s Houseplant Appreciation Day in January, Truck Driver Appreciation Week in September and National Nurses Week in May,...
Follow National Whistleblower Day event on Twitter #NWD19
National Whistleblower Day is over, but the tweets from NWC continue. https://twitter.com/StopFraud
If you have to be a whistleblower, don’t blow it. Protect yourself and be rewarded.
This year’s National Whistleblower Day event will be Tuesday, July 30. It will be broadcast live from Capitol Hill via Facebook. If you are going to blow the whistle, do it right, says Stephen M. Kohn, chair of National Whistleblower...
Changing the way we think about whistleblowers: Social media gifs offer support
From Transparency International: To celebrate World Whistleblowers Day — 23 June 2019 — we’ve created a set of GIFs and Stickers you can use on your favorite social media platforms. More here on how to use them. https://gph.is/g/Zkbnr2Y via GIPHY
House and Senate Introduce Resolutions Declaring National Whistleblower Appreciation Day
Maya Efrati By Maya Efrati In a show of bicameral bipartisanship, both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have introduced bills to declare July 30th, 2019 as National Whistleblower Appreciation Day. The Senate has passed similar resolutions each...
Bullet-Proof Vest Whistleblower Aaron Westrick Receives Pillar Award
This past Tuesday, Aaron Westrick, a whistleblower of defective bullet-proof vests, was awarded a Frank Wills & Martha Mitchell Pillar Award at the Whistleblower Summit for Civil and Human Rights. Pillar Awards are given by the Whistleblower Summit for Civil...
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