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Elimination of corruption and the creating of conditions for transparency, integrity and accountability
Elimination of corruption and the creating of conditions for transparency, integrity and accountability
Statement of participants at the Regional Consultation on Anti-Corruption Mechanisms in Asia, 11-15 January 2010, Hong Kong
We the participants of the Regional Consultation on Anti-Corruption Mechanisms in Asia held at the Asian Legal Resource Centre in Hong Kong from 11 to 15
January 2010 express our deep concern about the acute problems that people of our countries face, particularly for the large majority of people who still live in relatively poor conditions, which affect economic, social and cultural rights as well as civil and political rights.
In areas of food and water, education and health, employment and so forth people across Asia face extremely serious problems of corruption. When attempting to gain the basic services to which they are entitled as members of society, corruption remains a serious obstacle.
While budgetary allocations are inadequate to meet legitimate public expectations, state authorities misuse the allocations themselves. Apart from this, foreign aid for socio-economic development projects often ends up in the hands or pockets of corrupt politicians and those in authority, defying all attempts at accountability.
Corruption is also playing a role in stimulating violence and internal insecurity, as it shrivels the prospect of government supplying people with basic services, opportunities, rights and entitlements. As a result, people choose to remain silent on internal conflict and do not support the state in handling crises. Further, people also opt not to participate in governance. In this sense corruption weakens people’s democracy and creates space for authoritarian rule.
There are also problems associated with the planning and allocation of resources that are conditioned by the institutional gaps and defects
Elimination of corruption and the creating of conditions for transparency, integrity and accountability
Elimination of corruption and the creating of conditions for transparency, integrity and accountability
Statement of participants at the Regional Consultation on Anti-Corruption Mechanisms in Asia, 11-15 January 2010, Hong Kong
We the participants of the Regional Consultation on Anti-Corruption Mechanisms in Asia held at the Asian Legal Resource Centre in Hong Kong from 11 to 15
January 2010 express our deep concern about the acute problems that people of our countries face, particularly for the large majority of people who still live in relatively poor conditions, which affect economic, social and cultural rights as well as civil and political rights.
In areas of food and water, education and health, employment and so forth people across Asia face extremely serious problems of corruption. When attempting to gain the basic services to which they are entitled as members of society, corruption remains a serious obstacle.
While budgetary allocations are inadequate to meet legitimate public expectations, state authorities misuse the allocations themselves. Apart from this, foreign aid for socio-economic development projects often ends up in the hands or pockets of corrupt politicians and those in authority, defying all attempts at accountability.
Corruption is also playing a role in stimulating violence and internal insecurity, as it shrivels the prospect of government supplying people with basic services, opportunities, rights and entitlements. As a result, people choose to remain silent on internal conflict and do not support the state in handling crises. Further, people also opt not to participate in governance. In this sense corruption weakens people’s democracy and creates space for authoritarian rule.
There are also problems associated with the planning and allocation of resources that are conditioned by the institutional gaps and defects