FN må sette korrupsjon på dagsorden

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I forbindelse med at den 79. sesjonen av FNs generalsforsamling åpner den 10.september, oppfordrer TI Norge med TI bevegelsen FN og medlemslandene til å gjøre bekjempelse av korrupsjon til en hovedprioritet i deres arbeid. Les brevet TI Norge har sendt til den norske FN-delegasjonen under.

Korrupsjon er bredt anerkjent som en stor hindring for å oppnå bærekraftsmålene, på grunn av dens omfattende og skadelige innvirkning på styresett, økonomisk utvikling og sosial rettferdighet. Det er internasjonal enighet om at kampen mot korrupsjon må stå sentralt i arbeidet med å skape en bedre nåtid og sikre en bærekraftig fremtid.

I det vedlagte brevet finner delegasjonen en liste med seks anbefalinger som vi, de 65 medunderskriverne av dette åpne brevet, foreslår at FNs medlemsland tar opp på det kommende toppmøte. Disse anbefalingene er avgjørende for å sikre en global avtale som beskytter fremtiden mot korrupsjon.

Vi ønsker den norske delegasjonen lykke til i det viktige arbeidet.

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Subject:  Open letter on scaling up commitments to anti-corruption at the Summit of the Future 6 September 2024

Your Excellency,  

I am writing to you today in connection with the Summit of the Future, taking place 22-23

September in New York, and its key outcome document, the Pact for the Future. In my role as

Secretary General for Transparency International Norway, I represent the national Chapter of the Transparency International movement dedicated to ending the global injustice of corruption. I would like to share with you an open letter signed by 66 national Chapters of the Transparency International movement, which is asking UN Member States to make clear commitments to preventing and combatting corruption holistically in the Pact for the Future. 

Corruption is widely recognised as a significant barrier to achieving the SDGs due to its pervasive negative effects on governance, economic growth and social equity. We firmly believe that an international consensus on how to deliver a better present and safeguard the future must put the fight against corruption at its heart. Whilst we welcome the commitment in the Pact for the Future to close the SDG financing gap in developing countries including by strengthening ongoing efforts to prevent and combat illicit financial flows, corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion, this commitment is very limited in its scope and does not address corruption as the global, cross-cutting and pressing problem that it is. 

In the attached letter, you can find a list of six recommendations that we, the 65 co-signatories of the open letter, recommend that UN Member States take at the Summit of the Future to ensure that we build a Pact that safeguards the future from corruption: 

•       Commit to accelerating the implementation of their obligations under the UN

Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), to fulfilling their commitments under the 2021 Political Declaration of the Special Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGASS) against Corruption, and to more robust monitoring of both.

•       Commit to eliminating financial secrecy in all sectors, curbing the enabling role of private-sector intermediaries and promoting cross-border cooperation and intelligencesharing, recognising these as key measures to, on the one hand, combatting illicit financial flows linked to corruption, tax abuse, organised crime and other offences, and, on the other hand, to mobilising additional domestic resources to finance sustainable development.

•       Commit to enhancing transparency and accountability, and to strengthening anticorruption safeguards in recipient countries’ budget cycles to ensure that resources are allocated, managed and spent in a way that improves the delivery of and access to essential public services, as well as efforts to achieve peace, stability and inclusive sustainable development.

•       Commit to ensuring public access to information and protecting fundamental freedoms as core functions of transparent, inclusive and accountable institutions.  

•       Focus on corruption as a serious threat to peace and security and as a root cause and consequence of conflict under Action 25. Address the risks posed by corruption to the stability and security of societies, including by strengthening the governance of institutions linked to upholding peace and security, and by integrating good governance measures into national prevention and peacebuilding strategies and approaches under Action 18.

•       Recognise the special importance of transparency, public participation, accountability, and good governance in climate policy processes and action.

We warmly invite you to read the attached letter and are grateful for your consideration of our recommendations. Please feel free to share the open letter and its recommendations with your colleagues and any contacts at the Permanent Mission to the UN in New York. We appreciate the opportunity to discuss our recommendations further with you. If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to reach out. 

Yours sincerely,

Guro Slettemark

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