Informative Resources
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Watch the 22 minute documentary produced by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime called “The Struggle against Corruption”.
Read more about the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
Read the proposed plan for the proposed Commonwealth Integrity Commission in Australia.
The Independent Commission against Corruption (NSW) is responsible for investigating public sector corruption in NSW.
Read Transparency International’s Corruptions Perceptions index, analyses and articles.
Read about the anti-corruption goals the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development set for 2018.
Watch the following videos in which Pope Francis discusses political corruption:
- Say “NO” to corruption – The Pope Video – February 2018
- Pope Francis fights Corruption with invisible ministry (5 February 2018)
- Pope Francis: There is also corruption in the Vatican. It’s like sugar: abuse it and you get sick (27 November 2015)
- Pope’s Mass: Corruption is paid by the poor (16 June 2014)
- Pope lashes out against the corrupt in government and church (17 June 2014)
- Pope Francis in Angelus “Abused Authority leads to Corruption” (6 November 2017)
Read the Antonio Guterres’ (Secretary General of the United Nations) comments on corruption in full:
- Secretary-General’s message on International Anti-Corruption Day (9 December 2018)
- Secretary General’s Comments to the Security Council on Corruption in Conflict (10 September 2018)
- Remarks at High-Level Debate marking 15th Anniversary of Adoption of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (23 May 2018)
What is at the root of slavery, unemployment, and disregard for nature and goods held in common? Corruption, a process of death that feeds the culture of death … Corruption is not countered with silence. We must speak about it, denounce its evils, and try to understand it so as to show our resolve … Let us pray that those who have material, political or spiritual power may resist any lure of corruption.
Pope Francis, “Say “NO” to Corruption” Video