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A Brief Note from "Empowering Employees to Protect Food Integrity"

A Short Note from 1:30 pm to 3:10 pm

Luncheon Guest Speaker: Bill Marler, Marler Clark LLP, PS

    His blog and presentation

2:00 p.m. Panel 3: Food Safety and Whistleblowing: Past Present and Future

Moderator: Tony Corbo, Food and Water Watch

Panelists: Felicia Nester, Food and Water Watch

                Jackie Nowell, United Food and Commercial Workers

                Tom Devine, Government Accountability Project

Panelists shared anecdotes, case studies, successes, failures and forecasts for progress in the realm of food integrity. 

Food Safety Organizations

Food and Water Watch

"A nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food...Food & Water Watch works with grassroots organizations around the world to create an economically and environmentally viable future"

S.T.O.P.: Safe Tables Our Priority

"A national, non-profit health organization dedicated to preventing suffering, illness, and death due to foodborne illness by advocating sound public policy, increasing awareness and education, and providing victim assistance"

Center for Food Safety

"A national non-profit membership organization working to protect human health and the environment by curbing the proliferation of harmful food production technologies and by promoting organic and other forms of sustainable agriculture"       

United Food and Commercial Workers

                                  

Others

Union of Concerned Scientists

• Freedom to speak / media policies of 15 federal agencies

Read more about the conference from Food Safety News

[USA] Food Safety Conference by GAP & American University (November 20, 2009)

"Empowering to Protect Food Integrity"

The Government Accountability Project (GAP) and American University will held a day-long conference, "Empowering to Protect Food Integrity." on November 20, 2009. In this conference, experts will discuss food integrity issues such as, whistleblower protections, legal reforms, immigrant rights, humane handling, corporate farming. 

Click here for more information

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2009 APEC Anti-Corruption And Transparency Symposium - September 16-17, 2009

2009 Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Anti-Corruption and Transparency Symposium - Seoul Korea, September 16-17, 2009

"By sharing and discussing technical support experience, participants will build their capacity to organize anti-corruption technical assistance projects. The heads of anti-corruption bodies from Thailand and Malaysia, a high ranking official from US Office of Government Ethics and officials from international organisations such as the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank will present case studies and a variety of policies for anti-corruption capacity building. The Symposium will address recent global trends in anti-corruption efforts. Official development assistance and related national policies will also be addressed" (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation)

Title: 2009 APEC Anti-Corruption & Transparency Symposium
Date: September 16-17, 2009
Venue: Grand Ballroom(5th Floor), JW Marriott, Seoul
Hosted by Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission
Theme: Systematic approach to building anti-corruption capacity
Language: English (Simultaneous interpretation : English-Korean)

Download 2009 Program in English

Download 2009 Program in Korean

Presentations Relating to Whistleblower Protection

September 17, 2009

Session 3-2. Best anti-corruption policies to build anti-corruption capacity

14:00-14:25  Effective detection of and punishment for corruption / Soh Kee Hean (Director, Corruption Practices Investigation Bureau, Singapore)

14:25-14:50  Protection for the promotion of public interest disclosure / Michael Kohn (Co-Founder and President, National Whistleblower Center)

14:50-15:15  Civil participation in monitoring corrupt acts  / Merceditas Gutierrez (Ombudsman, The Philippines)

From Korea Times

Kim, Sue-young, "Transparency key to rooting out corruption," Korea Times, September 16, 2009.

Participants in the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Symposium discussed anti-corruption practices and current efforts being made in Seoul, Wednesday. About 200 high-level government officials and experts from the Asia-Pacific region are participating in the two-day symposium, being held at the JW Marriott Hotel in southern Seoul, to share their experiences. Click here to read more.

EGPA Conference 2009 - Ethics and Integrity of Governance

EGPA Conference 2009

Malta, September 2-5, 2009

The Study Group on Ethics and Integrity of Governance brings together academics and practitioners interested in the ethical dimension of administration and organization. The group’s mission is to establish a long-term network aimed at stimulating research on public sector integrity and ethics in Europe. The Study Group was launched at the 2003 EGPA Annual Conference and had an average attendance of about 40 participants in the subsequent annual meetings.  Click here for more information.

Session 1 - General track: ETHICS AND INTEGRITY OF GOVERNANCE

Session 2 - Themed session on Academic Research and Ethics

The due date of paper submission was May 1, 2009.

Download EGPA 2009 - Programme final

The protection of whistleblowers in the light of GRECO's Work

This paper generally addresses a comparative perspective on whistleblower protection laws.  The author compared countries that were required and not required to introduce whistleblower protection.  Also he slightly touched 10 issues for policy makers, such as "is a specific law needed?," "whistleblower protection should ideally apply both to the public and private sector," and "compensation."

Author: Christopher Speckbacher, Secretariat of GRECO

Table of Contents

    Part1: General consideration

    Part2: Ten Issues for Policy Makers

Download The Protection of Whistleblowers in the Light of GRECO's Work, March 2009

GRECO's website (Group of States against Corruption)

APSAC Conference 2009 - Session 1, StreamD: Protecting Whistleblowers

APSAC Conference 2009 - Taking Responsibility, Fighting Complacency (July 28-31, 2009)

Session 1

Stream D: Protecting Whistleblowers

Facilitator: Dr A J Brown (Professor of Public Law, Griffith University)

1. The management of disclosures and their challenges
   Chris Wheeler (Deputy Ombudsman, NSW)
   
   
2. Whistling While They Work: Towards best practice organisational responses to public interest whistleblowing
   Peter Roberts (Senior Lecturer, Australian Graduate School of Policing, Charles Sturt University)
   
   
3. Fostering workplace environments in support of whistleblowing
   Jane Olsen (Research Officer, Research and Prevention, CMC)

Whistleblower Protection Goes Global - from FAIR

Prague, Czech Republic — Last week an international array of whistleblowing and anti-corruption experts gathered in Prague for an event that signals a new stage in the evolution of the anti-corruption movement. More than 30 delegates from 17 countries took part in an intensive 2-day roundtable organized by Transparency International (TI). 

To read more

Roundtable Participants

This meeting was a main event of the Transparency International Enhancing Whistleblower Protection in the European Union (EWP) Project.  You can read more by clicking here.