Transparency International has issued a call for nominations for the 2003 TI Integrity Awards with a deadline of 31 January 2003. The Integrity Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, 25 May 2003, during the Opening Ceremony of the 11th IACC.

A judge who took on corruption in her own profession, a critic of corruption in the pharmaceutical industry, and a civil society activist determined to clean up local politics were the winners of Transparency International’s 2002 Integrity Awards.

Launched by Transparency International in 2000, the awards were created to recognise the courage and determination of the many individuals and organizations fighting corruption around the world. The Integrity Award winners are a source of inspiration to the anti-corruption movement because their actions send the clear message: that there are committed people of integrity around the world working with extraordinary dedication to counter corruption.

Above all, the goal of the awards is to give greater recognition to the efforts of journalists, civil society activists, government and corporate whistleblowers who work to investigate and unmask corruption, often at great personal risk. The Integrity Awards seeks to encourage those whose example provides leadership in the global anti-corruption movement. They seek to underline the work of individuals and organizations that have made a genuine difference with specific actions to investigate or expose corruption, to prosecute the corrupt, to undermine the determined efforts of corrupt public office holders and to counter corruption in other ways

For more information please contact Sarah Tyler at styler@transparency.org, or visit the TI website: http://www.transparency.org