As suggested in the first installment to this blog, an integrated systems approach to ensuring rule of law and combatting corruption, including protecting whistleblowers, is a key part of a strategy for advancing human progress across the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable development. Such an approach entails deploying tools such as whistleblower protection across the legal and justice system, complemented with sector-specific strategies that bring these tools to bear to address corruption and impunity in specific sectors.
The National Whistleblower Center (NWC) and this blog have been effective advocates for both system-wide and sector-specific approaches. Many articles on this page highlight the importance of protecting whistle-blowers or confidential informants for providing information about wildlife trafficking, illegal logging, and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. These activities involve large financial flows, often require collusion of government officials and are thus prone to corruption to enable them. Extraction and trade in natural resources, both living and mineral, continue to present a major locus of risk for illegality and corruption, and hence the need to incentivize and protect whistleblowers through sector-specific efforts that complement justice system-wide approaches.
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