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12.10.2012  The State Commission for Prevention of Corruption in cooperation with OSCE and Transparency International Macedonia has conducted a research according to which the education sector , especially the University education is a source  of corruption. 55,1%  from the citizens respondents consider that there is a major  corruption in the country. 56,2% or the biggest part of the respondents consider that the corruption is  most present in the universities. This survey shows that the perception of corruption in this country is above the European average.  

 06.12.2012 Tetovo, The regional office of the Center for Advocacy and Legal  help a part of Transparency international Macedonia in Tetovo on 06.12.2012 organized a round table on the topic ‘Citizens in the fight against corruption’ that took place in the Municipal hall in Tetovo,  
Prof.d-r Slagjana Taseva –president of Transparency International Macedonia and the Mayor of the Municipality of Tetovo prof. dr. Sadi Bedzeti addressed the public – citizens from Tetovo and the Tetovo officials. 

07.12.2012 in Skopje, has been  organized  a conference where representatives of the State anti-corruption commission , NGOs , the Ministry of justice, the private sector and international organizations OSCE and UNDP were  gathered together  for the first time  on the same table ,while celebrating The world anti-corruption day, 9th of December.   

On the occasion of 9th of December the World Anti-corruption day, on 8th of December 2012 TI-Macedonia organized a campaign under the motto “Join the Fight against Corruption– Draw a red line “ .  The campaign took place in three cities around Macedonia Skopje, Shtip and Tetovo where TI-Macedonia has its own branches.The campaign in Skopje occurred on locations where there is a huge movement of people, so the action took place on the two pedestrian zones on the ground floor of the City Trade Center-GTC . Citizens, through banners, flayers, conversation with the TI Macedonia staff were informed with our work and activities. Some of them were especially interested in the campaign “ Draw a red line “ and the way of functioning of www.transparencywatch.org.

05.12.2012 Skopje/ Berlin – a growing outcry over corrupt governments forced several leaders from office last year, but as the dust has cleared it has become apparent that the levels of birbery, abuse of power and secret dealings are still very high in many countries. The Transparency International index of perception of corruption in 2012 shows that the corruption continues to ravage the societies around the globe.   

SKOPJE, 6 November 2012 – Exchanging best practices among anti-corruption agencies from South Eastern and Eastern Europe on the introduction of systems of integrity in public institutions is the aim of an OSCE-supported regional conference that started in Ohrid today.

During the event, representatives of national public institutions, as well as regional anti-corruption agencies and independent experts from Slovenia, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia will share their countries’ experiences on the application of integrity models and on their policies to prevent corruption.

The biennial International Anti-Corruption Conference, now in its 15th edition, will take place from 7 -10 November in Brasilia. Leading experts from across a wide array of disciplines connected to the fight against corruption will discuss in over 50 workshop and plenary sessions how to best take the fight against corruption forward in five key areas: ending impunity, clean climate governance, preventing illicit financial flows, political transitions leading to stable and transparent governments and clean sports. The four-day event will be opened by the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff

Prijavi Korupcija, the most innovative tool helping the citizens in the fight against corruption in Republic of Macedonia, besides Macedonian and English version has published its mobile app for Android phones on Albanian language.

TI-Macedonia held a press conference which presented the results of the work of the web platform and application for reporting corruption www.prijavikorupcija.org  received in the period from 01.09.2011  – 28.09.2012.

Laws forbidding companies from bribing abroad to win contracts or dodge local regulations have resulted in rising prosecutions, anti-corruption group Transparency International said in a new report today.
The report, Exporting Corruption? Country Enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. Progress Report 2012, shows that bribery charges increasingly lead to fines, jail time and reputational damage. With 144 new cases in 2011, the total number of cases prosecuted by 37 major exporters rose from 564 at the end of 2010 to 708 at the end of 2011, with a further 286 investigations ongoing.