Numerous treaties, conventions and commitments though multilateral fora seek to end the practice of foreign bribery. These bribery schemes typically include two guilty parties—a private individual or company that offers or pays a bribe (the supply side” of bribery), and a government official who demands or accepts it (the “demand side”).
When it comes to the “supply” side, Transparency International’s most recent Exporting Corruption report reveals that only 2 of the 47 largest exporting countries are actively enforcing their foreign anti-bribery laws. On the demand side, a survey by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development shows that home governments only criminally sanction their bribe-demanding or -receiving officials some 20 percent of the time.
This dynamic left anticorruption advocates with incomplete justice. Until now.
In this workshop we will examine new foreign anti-bribery tools that offer the promise of progress, as well as methods for engaging local activists, investigative journalists, and the private sector in this core element of the anticorruption fight.