The Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani International Anti-Corruption Excellence Award continues to implement its objectives aimed at fighting corruption. The award, which is held annually in different countries and hosted this year by Uzbekistan, highlights exemplary and noteworthy actions and good practices at the global level. This year's winners of the prize were Dr. Sunčana Ruksandic and Dr. John T. Koa from Croatia. British journalist Claire Rocastle Brown and British Phil Mason won the Innovation or Investigative Journalism Award.
“You may be aware in the recent (Rugby World Cup) quarter-final South Africa was hours away from not having their national anthem played or their national flag raised,” Barnes said..