Corruption Solutions in the United States
Global Corruption Solutions
The U.S. Department of State has made anti-corruption a national security priority and works across the globe to prevent graft, promote accountability, and empower reformers. It is a momentum for rooting out corruption around the world.
The U.S. Department’s global anti-corruption efforts have three elements:
- Preventing Corruption & Increasing Accountability: We assist countries committed to tackling corruption by both strengthening democratic institutions and building new support for reform by empowering citizen advocates to hold governments accountable to global standards.
- Strengthening Law Enforcement Across Borders: We work with global partners to enhance law enforcement cooperation across borders, improve data sharing between major financial hubs, and develop tools to recover stolen assets.
- Tackling the Corruption-Security Nexus: We address corruption in the security arena, exposing how corruption threatens national security and the ability to protect citizens, defeat terrorists, and defend national sovereignty.
Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention on Corruption and the Additional Protocol
The Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention on Corruption (the Additional Protocol on arbitrators and jurors also forms part of this Command Paper) requires signatory States to adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences under their national law active and passive bribery in both the public and private sectors. The targeted activity includes bribery of members of foreign and domestic parliamentary assemblies and of officials of international organisations. The Convention also contains ancillary provisions on money-laundering, account offences, corporate liability, international co-operation and extradition. To learn more, click here.