WNN recently attended the 20th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Washington, D.C. This year, the conference’s theme was “Uprooting Corruption, Defending Democratic Values.” In a workshop session titled “Whistleblowers Without Borders,” hosted by the National Whistleblower Center (NWC), a group of experts talked about whistleblowing laws in their respective countries and then led small group exercises that fostered thinking about whistleblowers and how best to protect them.
The panel featured Siri Nelson, NWC’s Executive Director, Angeles Estrada, Executive Director of the Transparency and Anticorruption Initiative at Tecnológico de Monterrey, and Carlos Guerrero, President of Derechos Humanos y Litigio Estratégico Mexicano.
The first part of the event was informational: experts talked about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other whistleblowing laws around the world. Estrada talked about how the rise in laws targeting foreign corruption are positive developments but can leave whistleblowers in a gray area. “Globalization has globalized corruption, but not protections,” she said. The group also talked about the serious consequences whistleblowers can face and highlighted the need to protect whistleblowers and journalists.
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