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Corruption kills development and is one of the biggest obstacles to achieving the globally agreed targets to reduce poverty, hunger and other social ills by 2015, also known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), United Nations officials warned today.
“When public money is stolen for private gain, it means fewer resources to build schools, hospitals, roads and water treatment facilities. When foreign aid is diverted into private bank accounts, major infrastructure projects come to a halt,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his message on International Anti-Corruption Day, observed on 9 December.
The theme of this year’s observance is “don’t let corruption kill development,” and highlights one of the biggest impediments countries face in their efforts to reach the MDGs.
“Corruption undermines governments’ ability to act and serve their people. It siphons off the finance intended to reduce poverty and discourages investment in economies,” said Helen Clark, the Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
The Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa, paid tribute to “heroes with integrity: anti-corruption officials who are not afraid to go after the big fish; whistleblowers who risk their jobs to expose cheating; journalists who risk their lives to investigate fraud and report the truth; prosecutors who defend justice, even when under attack from powerful forces.”
Through its Global Programme against Corruption, the Vienna-based UNODC assists States with vulnerable developing or transitional economies by promoting anti-corruption measures in the public and private sector, including in high-level financial and political circles.
Mr. Ban urged everyone to join the “Your NO Counts” campaign – spearheaded by UNODC and UNDP – at www.yournocounts.org, and to make a pledge: never to offer or accept a bribe.
“Live by that motto, and the world will be a more honest place – and we will increase the chances of reaching the Millennium Development Goals,” he stated.
He also urged both the private and public sectors to make more effective use of the UN Convention against Corruption, which he described as “the world’s strongest legal instrument to build integrity and fight corruption.”
“When public money is stolen for private gain, it means fewer resources to build schools, hospitals, roads and water treatment facilities. When foreign aid is diverted into private bank accounts, major infrastructure projects come to a halt,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his message on International Anti-Corruption Day, observed on 9 December.
The theme of this year’s observance is “don’t let corruption kill development,” and highlights one of the biggest impediments countries face in their efforts to reach the MDGs.
“Corruption undermines governments’ ability to act and serve their people. It siphons off the finance intended to reduce poverty and discourages investment in economies,” said Helen Clark, the Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
The Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa, paid tribute to “heroes with integrity: anti-corruption officials who are not afraid to go after the big fish; whistleblowers who risk their jobs to expose cheating; journalists who risk their lives to investigate fraud and report the truth; prosecutors who defend justice, even when under attack from powerful forces.”
Through its Global Programme against Corruption, the Vienna-based UNODC assists States with vulnerable developing or transitional economies by promoting anti-corruption measures in the public and private sector, including in high-level financial and political circles.
Mr. Ban urged everyone to join the “Your NO Counts” campaign – spearheaded by UNODC and UNDP – at www.yournocounts.org, and to make a pledge: never to offer or accept a bribe.
“Live by that motto, and the world will be a more honest place – and we will increase the chances of reaching the Millennium Development Goals,” he stated.
He also urged both the private and public sectors to make more effective use of the UN Convention against Corruption, which he described as “the world’s strongest legal instrument to build integrity and fight corruption.”
11 comments:
As long as international community find nothing better than to kindly negotiate with the assassins who respect no laws nor belief, they should not expect to reduce anything they lined here. If international community really has some sincere attention to end or at least reduce crimes and abuse in this world, they should find some concrete actions to end it and first of all they should play that double trench policy that of to trades crimes with these assassins in one hand and pretend to defend victims and justice on the other hand.
Why wars only happen only in the poor countries you may ask? Why in the poor countries people suffer of hungry while their lands are often riche of resources? And why you find all kind of abundances resources of these poor people in the rich countries while these people are dying of hungry? If international has some human feelings and sincerity, they should go straight to the source of problem with adequate solution instead of playing demon god game to fool the victims
In cambodia all corruptions started with High drunken officials who work for government, especially border patrol police chief, and ship port patrol police chief...
Why khmer people getting shot everyday by Thais soldier at the border? because border patrol police given them a green light to cross and chop down the them trees, poor khmer people are victims of these greedy people...
Cambodian authority should track down and catch whoever lure khmer people to cross the border and cut down the trees and punish these people for good..!
Police should ask those people who asking them to go up and cut down the trees, and then track down and catch that people...
The border police Chief....is the one!
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should be "If international community really has some sincere attention to end or at least reduce crimes and abuse in this world, they should find some concrete actions to end it, and first of all THEY SHOULD NOT play that double trench policy that of to trades crimes with these assassins in one hand and pretend to defend victims and justice on the other hand.
Monkey see, monkey do!
Fucking UN too,why fuck all of them did not helping Khmer during Pol Pot took Cambodia country over? And fuck all of them didn't help Cambodian people on 1979.Why let all Khmer people killed lot by without food to eat and fuck the UN brougth the aid to Cambodia country?
UN is becoming less and less effective and powerful. This organization can only criticize and nothing else. It's so important that rich and powerful countries respect UN rules and law, but usually the don't. A country like Cambodia that's ruled by, if you will, a dictator knows that UN is nothing other than a powerless organisation. So those leaders know for sue how to munipulate the latter. It's not fair for me to blame the UN, rather the supper power countries are to blame because they dominate the world. Just my thoughts.
I am totally agree with comments 6:57, 7:59 above 100%! UN is fucken Cheap Shit bastards, during that time they just sit and watch khmer people died...
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