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Bangladesh’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has made an offer to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) to work jointly to end corruption. Chairman NAB Qamar Zaman Chaudhry made this offer when a two-member UNODC delegation, headed by headed by Mr. Collie Brown, UNODC Advisor for Criminal Justice, called on him at NAB headquarters. Short-term goals discussed at the meeting included holding a national dialogue on anti-corruption in 2014.

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Civil society and government representatives gathered in Sarajevo May 29-30 for a whistleblowing conference focused on government accountability and corruption reporting. “Authority and Ethics: Ethical Institutional Management and Internal Handling of Complaints and Corruption” featured panelists from the United Nations, United States Embassy, and representatives from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian ministries. Organizers were the Center for Responsible Democracy (COD Luna), the Agency for Prevention of Corruption (APIK), the Anti-Corruption Network (Account), and the US Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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London Stock Exchange Group has joined the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative as a Partner Exchange. The platform aims to provide an effective peer-to-peer dialogue among global exchanges, encouraging sustainable investment, while enhancing corporate transparency on environmental, social and corporate governance issues.

The SSE initiative was launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York in 2009 and has nine Partner Exchanges around the world. LSEG will become the 10th Partner Exchange. The creation of SSE has provided stock exchanges with an opportunity to play an important leadership role in promoting sustainable business practices.

Mark Makepeace, Group Director of Information Services, London Stock Exchange Group, said “This is about supporting stable global long-term economic growth. We are therefore delighted to join the UN SSE initiative as a Partner Exchange and we look forward to collaborating on important sustainability themes with the UN and peer exchanges around the world.”

“By joining the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative, London Stock Exchange Group commits to a renewed effort to engage in dialogue with key capital market stakeholders to raise the level of best practice,” said Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General, UNCTAD. “Together, we can promote markets where market-signals and sustainability priorities are in alignment, not conflict.”

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Bahrain’s Anti-Corruption Directorate will carry out a National Anti-Corruption (Nazaha) 2014 Campaign from June 1 to June 10. The campaign is part of the strategy of the Interior Ministry to support community partnership to combat corruption. Among others, the campaign will highlight corruption crimes through newspaper articles, social media such as a Facebook page linked to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes, and reports on corruption risks in the public and private sectors.

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The Fourth Commonwealth Regional Conference for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Africa opened in Accra, Ghana, on 28 May 2014. The conference is organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat, in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC), Ghana’s Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the Economic and Organised Crime Office.

The Conference theme is “Coordinating Anti-Corruption Agenda within the Commonwealth.” Participating are 17 Commonwealth African Countries, including Nigeria, Cameroun, Mozambique, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Botswana.

The five-day conference, which was opened by President John Dramani Mahama, seeks to give the Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies the unique opportunity to forge some common understanding of the tasks that lie ahead of them as anti-corruption institutions and to share invaluable experiences.

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