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Blog: Empowering Citizens to Fight Corruption

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Post June 9th, 2010 por New Tactics

It's not too late to add your comments to add your comments to this dialogue on Empowering Citizens to Fight Corruption. This dialogue explored how campaigns have empowered and mobilized citizens to counter corruption in their communities.

Using zero rupee notes to protest prevalence of bribery in public service sectors

The Anti Corruption movement, 5th Pillar recently began distributing “Zero Rupee” notes to Indian citizens to give to any civil servant they come across that asks for a bribe. Corruption in the form of bribery is commonplace in India particularly in Chennai where the campaign began, and the Zero Rupee Note serves as a protest of this trend. 

Blog: CALL FOR CASES/INFORMATION: Research project on citizen participation & NV civic action to fight corruption seeks input

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Post December 22nd, 2009 por shaazka

I am conducting an in-depth research project to document and study cases of citizen participation and nonviolent civic action to fight corruption, in order to distill general lessons learned and best practices. The focus is on what people--organized together, exerting their collective power--are doing to fight corruption as they themselves have discerned it. The project will examine the skills, strategies, objectives, and demands of nonviolent civic campaigns and movements, rather than the phenomenon of corruption itself, or the conditions under which it occurs.

Human Rights Budgeting to Promote and Protect Social and Economic Rights

The Budget Information Service of the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (IDASA) analyzes government budgets from a human rights perspective to determine, through criteria of transparency, accountability, and governance, whether particular groups of people are being fairly and democratically represented in government programs.

IDASA was established in 1985, and worked

notebook: A Call to End Corruption: One Minute of Darkness for Constant Light

In this notebook a strong message was sent to theTurkish government when 30 million people turned off their lights for a full minute.  With this simple action the people of Turkey began to speak out against government corruption and break the cycle of fear and apathy. Turning off lights turned into stronger forms of protest and became the biggest public protest against corruption in Turkish history.