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Letter from NGOs to Secretary Blinken to Assist Haitian Government in Fighting Corruption
May 4, 2021
Dear Mr. Secretary,
Recent violent protests in Port-au-Prince underscore the Haitian people’s acute frustration with weak democratic governance, systemic corruption and the severe poverty that results from the avarice of government officials. The most glaring example of this malfeasance was seen in the PetroCaribe scandal in which an estimated $2 billion was misappropriated. Indeed, in Transparency International’s most recent Corruption Perception Index, Haiti scored just 18 out of a possible 100, making it one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Given the Biden administration’s stated foreign policy goal of addressing the “Achilles’ heel” of corruption around the globe, an array of anti- corruption, transparency and human rights organizations believe the United States must assist the Haitian government in developing critically important anti-corruption measure
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Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms
Over centuries, human society has achieved remarkable progress. Just an example: only 3-4 centuries ago people went for fun to public executions, as they go now to football matches! Now death sentence is only practiced in very few countries. We have become more humane, more civilized, even more rational, but are we also acting more responsibly and ethically?
Unfortunately, there is no simple, affirmative answer to this question. Namely, we are systematically destroying our planet, and with very few exceptions, corruption is still practiced in many domains of public life. In 2004 Daniel Kaufmann, Global Governance Director of the World Bank Institute, estimated the volume of corruption related to public procurement was about 1 trillion USD, and nowadays it could be double. Till rather recently some economists have even publicly defended this practice as an unavoidable aspect of doing business, while international bribing in
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