Wed 15 Dec 2021 | 19.00–20.00 GMT+2 Cairo

18.00–19.00 CET Stockholm, Berlin

Microsoft Teams – By invitation only. The session recording will be available after the event.

Speakers

• Làzarie Eeckeloo – Human Rights Officer, Center for Civil and Political Rights
• Dato' Muhammad Salim Sundar – Founding member and trustee, Perdana International Anti-Corruption Champion Foundation
• Gary Balch – General Counsel, International Association of Prosecutors
• Katalin Cseh – Member of the European Parliament
• Diego García-Sayán – UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Lawyers and Judges

Moderator

• Sofie Schütte – Senior Adviser, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre

Implementors of the UNCAC increasingly face push-back: from individual attacks to the systematic undermining of anti-corruption institutions. We discuss the set-up of a Special UN Rapporteur on anti-corruption and its possible mandate to examine, monitor, advise, and publicly report on major right infringements of those fighting corruption.

Our one-hour virtual session on MS Teams brings togethers parties who have already proposed and/or are debating the establishment of a special rapporteur on corruption, and those who have helped investigators of corruption cases and others facing push-back in a panel discussion.

The goals of the special session are to:

1. Raise awareness of and categorise the different kinds of push-back implementors of the UNCAC face.
2. Compile examples of international support being extended.
3. Learn from the experience of a current special rapporteur about the scope of their mandate and their special procedures.