International Anti-Corruption Day (9th December)

International Anti-Corruption Day - a brief overview :

✒️International Anti-Corruption Day is observed on 9th December every year. Corruption causes social, political and economic damage to countries and causes economic collapse. In order to prevent corruption, on October 31, 2003 the United Nations General Assembly was declared this day as International Anti-Corruption Day.

✒️The 2020 theme for International Anti-Corruption Day is “Recover with Integrity”. The theme emphasises the urgent need for countries to ensure that anti-corruption is an integral part of all sustainable development efforts. Through this theme, the United Nations urges world leaders to build greener economies, end poverty, invest in women’s empowerment and gender equality and provide Universal Healthcare Coverage.

✒️The UN believes that the COVID-19 pandemic creates sizeable possibilities for corruption to thrive due to weakening of oversight mechanisms and rest of safeguards underneath emergency protocols.

✒️UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that "On International Anti-Corruption Day, all of us – governments, businesses, civil society and all stakeholders – must resolve to work together to promote accountability and end corruption and bribery for a more just and equal world."

✒️Hardeep Singh Puri - Union Minister for Civil Aviation has tweeted that India “put behind a culture of scams and impunity to usher in an era of development with integrity" and asked people to renew the pledge of continuing on the path of development with integrity.

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