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What have GYACers done in the International Anti-Corruption Day?

Plenty!

Here's a recap on the events organised and attended by our friends in different parts of the world. If you want to have your activities listed here, let me know, I'll update the story a.s.a.p.…

Two days in the 3rd GYAC Forum and four days of 15th IACC left fond memories, priceless experiences, provoking thoughts, and larger networks for those who had the opportunity to attend both events…

E-governance initiatives, heavily touted as the ICT revolution took off in the past decade, have generally not lived up to expectations or functioned as effectively as hoped by many citizens. A number of these initiatives famously drew in significant amounts of public funds but produced online systems that were difficult to use, over-priced and based on clunky back-end architectures. Many of those projects that did work were not so much examples of e-governance as “i-government”- through…

I should have posted this here long ago, but because of how crazy my life has been I haven't had the time to do it. I have recently started an internship at this multinational called Pitney Bowes, but although I like it, it has nothing to do with (I was going to say mine, but) our choice of activism, or at least that's what I thought. A big part of what I do here is to make sure we…

With the Jan Lokpal din of Anna brigade hanging heavy in air, I, an Indian with an opinion, had enough reasons to ponder over the entire issue of corruption in India. Out of concern and curiosity, I googled a three-word phrase ?Corruption in India? and the enormity of the situation was staring in my face. Google gave me about 66,800,000 results in 0.08 seconds for "Corruption in India".

That said, the entire exercise of sieving through various web pages and media reports took me to a…

Hy everyone, this is my first post!



I met Voices Against Corruption in 15th IACC.



When I arrived in Brasilia everyone already knew each other, but soon I…

Kabul, 6 January 2013, Afghan Anti-Corruption Network.



It is announced that H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and H.E. Barack Obama, President of the United States of America will meet this week in the US and will discuss Afghanistan’s issues. Recently heads of both countries signed the U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership, which is an important bilateral agreement for both nations that can equally contribute to the security, stability…

happy new year all of you friends, may this year bring more change and hope to all what we need for a better life, 

MACAT नेपाल को अनसन तथा आतंक, हिंसा र भ्रस्टाचार को बिरोध मा आउने दिन हरु मा संचालन गरिने कार्यक्रम हरु बारे जानकारी 

MACAT Nepal recently had 24 hour fasting protest against release of hard core criminals by the state forced decision. Next program is cross country walk. Only politically non affiliated individuals are members. This Organisation so far…

On the International Anti-Corruption Conference, one of the people I met was a representative of The Engine Room. 

Unfamiliar with the oranisation, I realized after some reading up that they do some very interesting work. 

The section under mission…

One mistake during the fight against corruption is too focused on efforts to crack…

The Global Youth Anti-Corruption Network Liberia Chapter joins the world over to celebrate the International Anti-Corruption Day 2012 with the launch of the Voices against Corruption Forum.

Speaking on behalf of GYAC-Liberia at the launch of the forum and the celebration of this year…

Student leaders undergo Budget Process Training

 Starting them young. Selected student leaders undergo Budget Training Seminar

In a bid to promote transparency, accountability and participation on the education budget process, student…

Dear GYAC members,

I would like to extend the UNDP Virtual School's invitation to participate in two e-learning sessions aimed at youth (18-35 years old) who want to learn…

The Lebanese Transparency Association -No corruption, celebrated for the first time since its existence the Anti-corruption day.1200 young men and women came from different Lebanese regions to celebrate with us this event. Additionally, our event was held under the High Patronage of His Excellency President of the Lebanese Republic and was also crowned with the presence of MPs, Ministers, CSOs representatives, media representatives and other highly significant figures. Mr. Peter…

A day before the international anti-corruption day, the younger members of Youth Educational Forum from Macedonia marked the day with a series of creative and diverse activities, on their own incentive and in their own words.

The highlight of these activities would be the…

Mohandas Gandhi once said: “if we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”  Today, the majority (almost 85%) of the world’s youth live in developing countries, which means his guidance has become more important than ever when discussing development policy.  Additionally, the…

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Individual Activism: Reinforced

T he perceived level of…

Youth Initiative is going to celebrate International Volunteer’s day this year with the theme  “Volunteerism for Anti-corruption”. Though there is a general realization that corruption is a major cause of country's under-development, there has been no effective and sustained campaign against this most damaging disease gnawing the state and the society. STREET BAHAS will be organised to mark the volunteer’s day on 5^th Dec, 2012 and will continue till…