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Foreign staff who blew whistle on abuse should be rewarded for their bravery

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Nursing home abuse, Europe
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Eithne Donnellan – June 9, 2011

DUBLIN—Those who spoke out risked not alone their jobs but also their right to be in this country.

Has anything much changed since Leas Cross? This was the question many began to ask yesterday following the revelation that serious allegations of abuse of elderly residents at another Dublin nursing home had not been acted upon for a considerable period.

Irish whistleblower legislation to be fast-tracked

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Legislation, Nursing home abuse, Europe
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Michael O'Regan and Marie O'Halloran – June 9, 2011

Proposed legislation to protect whistleblowers is be accelerated, Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn told the Dáil today.

The Minister, who was taking the Order of Business on the Government’s behalf, was responding to questions about alleged physical and verbal abuse of elderly residents of the Rostrevor nursing home in south Dublin.

New Czech anti-corruption fund awards whistle-blowers

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Corruption, Honours, Europe, Anti-corruption efforts, Eastern Europe
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March 23, 2011

Prague — U.S. ambassador to Prague Norman Eisen yesterday supported a new Czech anti-corruption endowment fund that awarded the first two whistle-blowers for reporting suspected corruption in state administration.

The awards carry 500,000 and 100,000 crowns respectively. The recently registered fund, established by successful businessman Karel Janecek, awarded Libor Michalek, former head of the State Environmental Fund (SFZP), who pointed to alleged corruption at the Environment Ministry, and Ondrej Zavodsky who highlighted the suspicious placing of orders in the Interior Ministry's services facility.

Ukraine slow to battle corruption: OECD report

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Corruption, Europe, OECD, Developing countries
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Peter O'Neil – January 13, 2011

PARIS — Ukraine, one of Canada's top target countries for foreign aid, hasn't done enough to battle endemic corruption, according to a report made public here Thursday.

"Ukraine has made little progress in tackling corruption over the past four years, despite regular pledges from the country's leaders to take action," said the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, an economic and social policy research agency funded by Canada and 33 other western democratic countries.

WikiLeaks cables: Berlusconi 'profited from secret deals' with Putin

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Corruption, Wikileaks, Russia, Europe
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Russian PM allegedly promised Italian leader a cut of energy contracts, leaked US dispatches say

Rob Evans, Luke Harding and John Hooper – December 3, 2010

US diplomats have reported startling suspicions that Silvio Berlusconi could be "profiting personally and handsomely" from secret deals with the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, according to cables released by WikiLeaks.

Exasperated by Berlusconi's pro-Russian behaviour, American embassy staff detail allegations circulating in Rome that the Italian leader has been promised a cut of huge energy contracts.

EU in Kosovo probes organ trafficking

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Organized crime, Europe, Organ trafficking
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Associated Press – November 12, 2010

PRISTINA, Kosovo -- At least seven people, including a former senior health ministry official, have been charged with being part of an international network that falsely promised poor people payment for their kidneys and then sold the organs for as much as euro100,000 ($137,000), according to an indictment obtained by The Associated Press.

The indictment is the starkest revelation of the extent of organized crime in the country since Kosovo declared independence in 2008.

European aviation authorities refuse to protect whistle blowers

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Aviation safety, Europe
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October 8, 2010

Aircraft Engineers International has once again raised the issue of protection for members who need to speak out about unsafe MRO practices.

During AEI’s recent 38th Annual Congress in Hamburg, one of Europe’s leading regulators refused to offer unequivocal support for those who do brave the consequences and report.

UK Celebrates 10 Years Of Whistleblower Protection

FAIR offers sincere congratulations to our sister organization in the UK, Public Concern At Work (PCAW) on what it has accomplished since its foundation in 1993. Thanks to PCAW’s efforts the UK has had strong, well-designed whistleblower protection legislation in place for more than 10 years.

PCAW recently issued a comprehensive report Where's Whistleblowing Now? which examines the progress made over the past decade and provides a wealth of information. The report paints a picture of a system that is generally working fairly well to ensure that whistleblowers are protected and to help them obtain appropriate remedies if they suffer reprisals.

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