To stop sexual exploitation in the aid sector, more self-regulation by NGOs isn’t the answer.
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Despite good intentions, efforts to hold colleges and universities accountable often miss the mark. The reasons why range from politics to resistance among the institutions themselves.
A tumultuous era has ended and there’s a silver lining to the cloud that has been hanging over South Africa.
The annual February festival of lampooning the largest visible donor lulls Australians into a false sense of security that there is a functioning political donations disclosure regime in place.
On Human Rights Day, and with Australia set to take up a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, here’s a must-do list for this country to become a credible advocate for human rights.
Despite arguments that it is too loose, ambiguous and easy to hide behind, the ‘public interest’ is an integral part of the discourse, law, regulation and governance of modern democracies.
Its been 13 years since Mauritius introduced codes of corporate governance for listed companies with mixed results. Its experience is useful for other developing countries looking to do the same.
One scandal at the CBA stands out above all others, It set the scene for how the CBA board would handle future scandals, that is to obfuscate, prevaricate and litigate.
William Isdale speaks with The University of Queensland's Cameron Murray about the nature of 'grey gifts', soft corruption, and who stands to win (and lose) when these deals are made.
The move to consolidate security agencies under one minister upends generations of conventions on how security intelligence and executive police powers are managed separately.
In a free society, it ought never to be lawful for a government to detain people by executive order alone.
The amplified public concerns about executive pay that led to the cementing of reporting and disclosure into law, may start trend of voluntary disclosure among professional bodies.
For-profit corporations are deeply embedded in US national security infrastructure – and they’re not going anywhere.
The drama caused by the return of Brain Molefe into South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, signals a failure of accountability and corporate governance within the public sector.
Policing culture is often associated with a lack of transparency and a resistance to external examination.
Past presidents have made strange requests of the FBI, some of which were documented by J. Edgar Hoover.
Trump’s budget director singled out Meals on Wheels as a waste of federal dollars. But identifying bad ways to spend taxpayer money is harder than it sounds.
The key takeaway from the Bob Day case is that courts interpret the eligibility requirements for election strictly.
Politicians should be subject to a penalty regime similar to the far more stringent one that applies to company directors.
Attempts to deepen democracy in Africa by limiting presidential terms to two have not entirely quashed a culture of entitlement to rule. Glimpses of it persist, much against citizens’ wishes.
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Chief Research Specialist in Democracy and Citizenship at the Human Science Research Council and a Research Fellow Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State
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Adjunct Professor, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Charles Sturt University
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor Emeritus of Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Democracy Deputy Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Research Director: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division, and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), Human Sciences Research Council
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, UCT. Visiting Adjunct Professor, WITS School of Governance; Director, Africa Programme, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Government, Smith College
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Associate Professor, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia