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Model Provisions for Whistleblower Protection Laws
Model Provisions aim to facilitate the adoption and implementation of recommendations of the “Gap Analysis of Whistleblower Protection Laws in the Western Balkans and Moldova|” released in September 2021. They include key provisions that a comprehensive whistleblower law should have, to provide responsible authorities with sufficient tools to protect whistleblowers from retaliation. Each provision is accompanied by its rationale applicable in real-life situations.
Publisher: Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative
Authors: Tom Devine and Mark Worth
Year of Publishing: 2021
Gap Analysis of Whistleblower Protection Laws in the Western Balkans and Moldova
The Gap Analysis was produced as part of the project “Breaking the Silence: Enhancing Whistleblowing Policies and Culture in the Western Balkans and Moldova”, funded by the European Union. The project aims to help partners from the beneficiary jurisdictions to improve whistleblower reporting channels and protection mechanisms; strengthen the capacity of civil society to support whistleblowers; and raise public awareness of the importance of whistleblowing in the fight against corruption.
Publisher: Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative
Authors: Tom Devine and Mark Worth
Year of Publishing: 2021
Gap Analysis (English language)
Excerpts in local languages
Albania
Laws on Whistleblower Protection in Western Balkans and Moldova
Albania
Whistleblowing Learning Platform
Together, we offer a learning platform for whistleblowing enforcement and oversight bodies and other practitioners to share experiences and cooperate across SEE countries in enhancing the whistleblower protection. We advocate for the development and implementation of improved whistleblowing legal instruments and high professional standards in line with the EU Whistleblowing Directive. We have more than 50 representatives from ministries of justice, anti-corruption agencies or other whistleblowing enforcement bodies, representatives of EU delegations, and CSOs, and an ever growing number of partners, working on improved protection of whistleblowers.
- EU Directive on Protection of Whistleblowers
- How to be compliant with the European Whistleblowing Directive?
- European Whistleblower Protection Directive: Going #BeyondCompliance
- Practical challenges when implementing the EU Whistle Blowing Directive
- United Nations-Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) – Focus Areas – Whistleblower Protection
- The United Nations Convention against Corruption Resource Guide on Good Practices in the Protection of Reporting Persons
- Group of States against Corruption (GRECO)
- OECD
- Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
- United Nations Development Programme
- SELDI.ne
Whistleblowing Library of Publications
Whistleblower Protection in Southeast Europe: Moving to the Next Step, Southeast Europe Coalition on Whistleblower Protection, 2022
Gap Analysis of Whistleblower Protection Laws in the Western Balkans and Moldova, Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative, 2021
Protecting Whistleblowers in Southeast Europe: A Review of Policies, Cases and Initiatives, Southeast Europe Coalition on Whistleblower Protection / Blueprint for Free Speech / Romanian Academic Society, 2017
Public Attitudes to Whistleblowing in South East Europe, Regional Cooperation Council, 2017
The Southeast Europe Whistleblower Journal, Southeast Europe Coalition on Whistleblower Protection, Periodical
SPEAK UP FOR HEALTH! Guidelines to enable whistle-blower protection in the healthcare sector, UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 2021
European Union Directive on the Protection of Persons who Report Breaches of Union Law (whistleblower protection), European Union, 2019
G20 Principles for Effective Whistleblower Protection, G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group, 2019
Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights – Improving the protection of whistleblowers all over the Europe, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, 2019
Compilation of Venice Commission Opinions and Reports Concerning Freedom of Expression and Media, European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission), 2016
Resource Guide on Good Practices in the Protection of Reporting Persons, UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 2015
Recommendation on Protection of Whistleblowers, Council of Europe, 2014
Model Law to Facilitate and Encourage the Reporting of Acts of Corruption and to Protect Whistleblowers and Witnesses, Organization of American States (OAS), 2013
Whistleblower Protection (publications and resources), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Study on Whistleblower Protection Frameworks, Compendium of Best Practices and Guiding Principles for Legislation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Retaliation: When Whistleblowers Become Victims, Ethics Resource Center, 2012
Are Whistleblower Laws Working? A Global Study of Whistleblower Protection Litigation, Government Accountability Project (GAP), 2021
Gaps in the System: Whistleblower Laws in the EU, Blueprint for Free Speech, 2018
Safe or Sorry: Whistleblower Protection Laws in Europe Deliver Mixed Results, Blueprint for Free Speech, 2018
Assessing Whistleblowing Legislation: Methodology and Guidelines for Assessment Against the EU Directive and Best Practice, Transparency International, 2020
Whistleblowers for Change: The Social and Economic Costs and Benefits of Leaking and Whistleblowing, Open Society Foundations, 2018
A Best Practice Guide for Whistleblowing Legislation, Transparency International, 2018
International Principles for Whistleblower Legislation, Transparency International, 2013
Whistleblowing Best Practices – Government Accountability Project (GAP), 2013
Blueprint Principles for Whistleblower Protection, Blueprint for Free Speech
Unsafe and Unsound: How Citizens Suffer under the UK’s Whistleblower Protection System, European Center for Whistleblower Rights, 2020
Protecting Whistleblowers in the UK: A New Blueprint, Thomson Reuters Foundation / Blueprint for Free Speech, 2016
Coverage of Whistleblower Cases
“Here are 4 key points from the Facebook whistleblower’s testimony on Capitol Hill”, National Public Radio, 5 October 2021
“Inside Frances Haugen’s Decision to Take on Facebook”, Time, 22 November 2021
“Frances Haugen: ‘I never wanted to be a whistleblower. But lives were in danger’”, Guardian, 24 October 2021
“The largest investigation in journalism history exposes a shadow financial system that benefits the world’s most rich and powerful.” International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, 3 October 2021
“The Panama Papers: Exposing the Rogue Offshore Finance Industry”, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, 3 April 2016
“Fishrot Files”, Wikileaks, 12 26 November, 2019
“A Fishy Business: Shifting Profits Out of Africa”, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, 20 July 2020
“Fishrot mastermind: The Rise and Fall of James Hatuikulipi”, The Namibian, 22 December 2020
“‘I didn’t run. I faced it’: Brigitte Fuzellier’s Ten-Year Road to Redemption”, Whistleblower Network News, 13 August 2021
“German Kolping whistleblower facing judicial persecution in Paraguay”, Deutsche Welle, 9 April 2019
“Dirty Water: Romanian Whistleblower Fired after Exposing Political Nepotism”, Whistleblower Network News, 20 April 2021
“Wirecard’s reluctant whistleblower tells his story: ‘They tried to destroy me’,” Financial Times, 20 May 2021
“The Wirecard Scandal and the Beauty of Anonymous Whistleblowing,” Whistleblower Network News, 11 June 2020
“Whistleblowers in Novartis Bribery Scandal Receive European Award,” Whistleblower Network News, 28 October 2020
“Novartis, Alcon Pay $347 Million to Settle Bribery Probes,” Wall Street Journal, 25 June 2020
“Will Novartis become Greece’s largest ever whistleblowing case?,” Blueprint for Free Speech, 6 March 2018
Coverage of Whistleblower Issues
“EU Whistleblower Protection Directive: FAQs and Latest News”, NAVEX, 15 July 2022
National Whistleblower Day 2022, SCOOP, June 18, 2022
International Whistleblower Day: ‘There is no giving up. Living in fear is not living’, Whistleblower Nework News, June 1, 2022
“Whistleblowing in Japan: Reforming the ‘Corporate Culture of Conformity’,” Whistleblower Network News, 7 March 2022
“COVID Underscores Lack of Whistleblower Protections,” Claims Journal, 22 February 2022
“Brussels Blows its Whistle: EU Scolds Countries for Failing to Protect Witnesses,” Whistleblower Network News, 14 February 2022
“Whistleblowers on Their Own: Europe’s New ‘Protection’ Systems Offer Little Comfort,” Whistleblower Network News, 4 February 2022
“Are we entering the age of the whistleblower?,” Business Leader, 5 January 2022
“Whistleblower Complaints and Rewards Explode Worldwide,” JD Supra, 18 November 2021
“SEC Report Details Record-Shattering Year for Whistleblower Program,” The National Law Review, 15 November 2021
“The Financial Sector Needs to Address Whistleblower Retaliation,” Fair Observer, 26 October 2021
“Can HR get ahead of rising whistleblowing, ageism complaints?” Human Resource Executive, August 24, 2021
“A New Age of Accountability: Global Whistleblowing on the Rise,” NAVEX, 1 April 2021