Pacific Anti-Corruption Updates (19 September 2020): Fiji, PNG, Micronesia
Pacific women urged to pursue decision making roles and fight against corruption. Pacific women have been urged to seek decision-making roles, and join boards and councils to fight corruption.
FIJI:
Women urged to fight corruption. Chairwoman of the Women Entrepreneurs Business Council (WEBC), Eseta Nadakuitavuki has called for more women to join decision-making roles, boards and councils to fight the deadly disease of corruption.
https://www.fijitimes.com/women-urged-to-fight-corruption/
PNG:
Papua New Guinea police accused of gun running and drug smuggling by own minister. Papua New Guinea’s police force is the most corrupt public agency in the country, engaged in drug-smuggling, gun-running, and land theft, and beset by “a rampant culture of police ill-discipline and brutality”, its own police minister has said, in an extraordinary condemnation of his own force.
Bryan Kramer: One year in – why so quiet about corruption in PNG? I note many people are asking why I am so quiet in my role as Minister for Police, after years of being vocal in the fight against corruption.
MICRONESIA:
Decolonising American Micronesia. It is a credit to so many of the local leaders that in many cases they stood strongly against these attempts at special deals and outright corruption.
https://www.policyforum.net/decolonising-american-micronesia/
To know more about the UN Pacific Regional Anti-Corruption Project please contact:
Annika Wythes, Regional Anti-Corruption Adviser, UNODC, annika.wythes@un.org