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Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has told an audience at the Transparency International-UK Anti-Corruption Lecture 2016 in London that corruption ‘is a scourge which holds in thrall millions of our Commonwealth sisters and brothers, condemning them to servitude, poverty, disease, indignity and misery’.
Read news - Secretary-General commits Commonwealth ‘to eliminate the scourge of corruption’ at Transparency International lecture
As the world marks the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, I stand with millions of men and women around the world to say NO to violence! We will not accept that violence is a part of culture. We reject any suggestions that women and girls are mere possessions to be used and abused.
Read news - ‘We will bring down rates of violence against women’ Commonwealth chief lays out plan to tackle gender-based violence