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The sounding of an alarm by an employee, director, or external person, in an attempt to reveal neglect or abuses within the activities of an organization, government body or company (or one of its business partners) that threaten public interest, its integrity and reputation.74
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Example in practice
In 2006, advocate Jeanetha Brink blew the whistle on fraud occurring in the South African province of Guateng. According to her claims, the local anti-corruption hot line was not investigating tip-offs and derailing investigations of cases against senior government officials. As a result of her charges, shewas relieved of her duties and forced to resign. In 2008, a court declared her resignation was coercedand she was awarded compensation.75
Relevant links
—— Governmental Accountability Project.
—— TIME Magazine, Persons of the Year 2002 (The Whistleblowers).
—— UN Anti-Corruption Toolkit, Tool #33, Whistleblowers, p. 448.
Transparency International, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Tools to Support Transparency in Local Governance (Kenya and Berlin: 2004).
United Nations Development Programme, Tackling Corruption, Transforming Lives: Accelerating Human Development in the Asia and the Pacific (New Delhi: Macmillan, 2008).
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, The Global Programme Against Corruption – UN Anti-Corruption Toolkit, 3rd edition (Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2004).