UN report: Iraq and the 11 Arab countries among the top corrupt countries in the world
Almost five years ago, entered the United Nations Convention against Corruption entered into force, and rushed all the Arab countries to join the Convention as a binding international legal instrument designed to combat corruption in government and private sectors around the world. Even the Palestinian Authority, which may not be legally binding on the Convention because it did not live up to the rank of state after the United Nations, took the initiative on its own to announce its commitment to the terms of the Convention by one, and sent a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations to that effect. What happened after five years.
Transparency International recently released its annual report on indicators of corruption in 178 countries around the world. According to the indicator components of corruption, more than half the Arab countries came at the head of the biggest corrupt in the world. And occupied Somalia ranked first in the world, followed by Afghanistan, Myanmar and Iraq.
And got more than 12 Arab countries on less than five points, which means according to the index to fall within the list of countries most corrupt in the world. Came Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore at the forefront of the world's least corrupt. Will celebrate the Arab countries with the rest of the United Nations Member States, on the ninth of December the International Day for the fight against corruption.
And stresses Huguette Labelle, Chair of Transparency International that raising living standards is one important factor in the fight against corruption, noting at the same time the importance of the governments of the translation of her statement on issues relating to their commitment to fight corruption, transparency and accountability into action, and good governance was an essential part of efforts to combat corruption.
Yuri Fedotov, said Director of the Office of the United Nations to combat crime and drugs there was no single country in the world in isolation from the risk of corruption, but there is considerable variation between Member States in the levels of corruption and the extent of penetration of interest and government and private institutions.
He warned the UN official in exclusive statements to the newspaper statement of the repercussions of corruption on democratic institutions in Arab countries and other countries in the world, through the distorting electoral processes, and said that corruption slows down the rate of economic development and creates more bureauocracy swamps.
The UN official stressed that corruption usually spreads in countries with low rates of economic growth, meaning that the lower the rates of growth, and poverty rates rose, the higher rates of crime and corruption in human societies. He noted that African countries, for example, facing high rates of poverty, crime, is itself the world's largest in terms of the size of the rampant corruption in its public and private.
But what are the reasons for the spread of corruption in Arab Societies? Catherine Bestman Professor of Humanities at the University of Kolb, the U.S. and specialized in African conflicts and on combating poverty, said that the main reason for the prevalence of corruption in Arab countries due to the low salaries of civil servants, and paid a large proportion of workers to accept bribes to meet "basic needs for survival."
And recognize Dr. Catherine Bestman that low wages is not a valid reason to justify corruption, in the absence of a general culture Mottagzrp with customs and traditions like the idea of the need to pay bonuses or the provision of small gifts for the service provided, which in this context is acceptable and "normal", especially for politicians and workers in the economic interests and investment.
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