Anti-corruption risk map / International cooperation / Animation vs corruption

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Baker McKenzie launches Global Anti-Corruption Risk Map.   Baker McKenzie has created a one of its kind, interactive Anti-Corruption Risk-Map that provides information on primary anti-corruption legislation and enforcement agencies, offences, defences, and penalties in 55 countries.

Nicolai Behr/Global Compliance News: https://globalcompliancenews.com/baker-mckenzie-launches-global-anti-corruption-risk-map-20170115/

The International Foreign Bribery Taskforce and the rise of international cooperation among anti-corruption authorities. Generally working outside the public eye, the International Foreign Bribery Taskforce was established by the FBI, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Australian Federal Police and the City of London Police Overseas Anti-Corruption Unit in 2013 as a platform for real-time information sharing and cooperation on cross-border anti-corruption investigations and prosecutions.

Ben Allen & Paul M. Lalonde/Lexology: http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7741d04c-34fe-488e-8bfa-7d7238e10508

Using Animated Videos to Change Children’s Attitude Toward Corruption (opinion).  "TRACE International has created a series of short animated stories featuring the 'Bribe Busters'—an elite young team of corruption fighters who fight corruption around the world with the help of a time travel teleportation super-computer."

Robert Clark, TRACE International/Global Anticorruption Blog: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2017/01/19/guest-post-using-animated-videos-to-change-childrens-attitude-toward-corruption/

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