International institutions (anti-corruption)

Sub-subject: Other institutions and Initiatives anti-corruption. Syllabus:

1. Group of States against Corruption
2. International Anti-Corruption Academy
3. Global Witness
4. Global Financial Integrity
5. International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities
6. Financial Action Task Force
7. Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative
8. World Economic Forum Partnering Against Corruption Initiative
9. African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption

Sample of the sub-subject: Initiatives anti-corruption

Ethics, business, and religion.

Sub-Subject Description - International institutions dealing with anti-corruption:

The Group of States against corruption.

The Council of Europe created in 1999 the Group of States of the Council of Europe Convention against Corruption so that its Member States could better combat corruption, both nationally and internationally.

GRECO has created rules, the twenty guiding principles for the fight against corruption, and two conventions:
- Civil Law Convention on Corruption
- Criminal Law Convention against Corruption.

GRECO member countries: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative is a joint venture between the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; it was created to supports global efforts to wipe out the tax havens considered safe for corrupt funds.

The Philippines has recovered more than one billion dollars, in particular from Switzerland, stolen by Ferdinand Marcos.

Peru had recovered over 174 million dollars stolen by Montesinos.

The World Bank estimates that cross-border flow of proceeds from criminal activities, corruption and tax evasion amounting to a total of between 1 and 1.6 trillion dollars a year.

Global Financial Integrity promotes policies, warranties, and agreements to curb the cross-border flow of illegal money, proposing solutions, facilitating Strategic Partnerships, and conducting groundbreaking research.

African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption