GOPAC’s Executive Director Pens Article about Parliamentarians and NGOs Working Together to Fight Corruption
We live in an age of dire cynicism about corruption in politics. Of the 100 nations for Transparency International’s most recent Global Corruption Barometer, only in 5 did a majority believe that the country was becoming less corrupt, and there was no country whatsoever whose population ranked their political parties or parliament as being “not at all corrupt”.
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APNAC Elects a New Board of Directors
The Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) congratulates the Honourable Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu of Ghana and Senator Marie Claire Mukasine of Rwanda on their election as Chair and Vice-Chair respectively of the African Parliamentarians’ Network Against Corruption (APNAC). The elections were held at APNAC’s Biennial General Meeting (BGM) in Kampala, Uganda, on 26 April 2013.
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Check out the April Issue of the GOPAC Newsletter!
GOPAC’s April Newsletter is now available online. Read all about GOPAC’s involvement in exciting activities around the world including in Indonesia, Bali, Botswana, Ecuador and South Sudan. You can also find out about registering for the Annual Conference of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Azerbaijan.
GOPAC Newsletter – April 2013
GOPAC Granted Observer Status at the Inter-Parliamentary Union
The Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) is pleased to announce that it has formalized its partnership with the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) by becoming an IPU observer organization. GOPAC’s observer status was formally promulgated at the IPU Executive Committee meeting of 20 21 March 2013, during the 128th IPU Assembly, held in Quito, Ecuador.
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