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Citizens Against Corruption: Report from the Front Line

by Anti-Corruption Digest | Feb 25, 2016 | Anti-Corruption | 0 comments
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Citizens Against Corruption

Pierre Landell Mills, a long-time and tireless advocate for putting governance at the center of development and a founder and board member of The Partnership for Transparency, contributes the following guest post: Everyone professes to hate corruption, but until recently few citizens believed they could stop it.

Too often citizens accepted corruption, assuming it was a permanent societal disability to be borne with resignation. But people are increasingly intolerant of being squeezed for bribes and are ever more incensed at predatory officials growing fat on extortion and crooked deals.

They want to do something about it. And they are. From the Philippines to Azerbaijan to Latvia to India to Mongolia and everywhere in between groups of courageous and dedicated citizens are taking direct action to root out corruption. Citizens Against Corruption: Report from the Front Line recounts the heroic struggle of local civil society organizations in more than 50 countries across four continents supported by The Partnership for Transparency Fund. Among the examples the book details —





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