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Resources on Human Rights and Corruption for US Teachers and Advocates

By humanrightsathome

If you’re teaching US Human Rights this year, you may want to include a focus on corruption and human rights — necessarily a rapidly expanding area of concern for US advocates.

Here are some resources to get started:

— The US ratified the UN Convention Against Corruption in 2006 and is subject to periodic peer review in accordance with that treaty’s provisions.  The US country profile page includes the results of the 2015 review and the most recent self-assessment prepared by the US in July 2019 in anticipation of the upcoming peer review led by the Netherlands and Bangladesh.

–Anne Peters’ 2018 article in the European Journal of International Law discusses corruption as not just a human rights concern, but a violation of human rights, and provides background on corruption’s place in the human rights canon.

–The report of a recent conference on corruption and human rights at Harvard’s Carr Center provides a snapshot of current research and advocacy on the links between corruption and weakening human rights enforcement, including examples from the United States. 

— Transparency International is a go-to organization working globally against corruption.  Here is its US profile page.