The seizure of luxury cars by French police investigating corruption underlines why UNESCO should not go ahead with a prize honoring Presdident Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea.
Posts Tagged “Equatorial Guinea”
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Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: anti-corruption, Equatorial Guinea, Erica Razook, Rights & Justice, supercars, Teodoro Obiang, unesco
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There are signs that Equatorial Guinea is laying the groundwork for a new bid to persuade UNESCO's board that, after 32 years of dictatorial and repressive rule, President Teodoro Obiang is a man worth honoring.
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Equatorial Guinea hosts this year's youth-themed African Union summit, despite a continuing stream of human rights abuses and the endemic corruption that has left the majority of citizens in this oil-rich country mired in poverty.
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In the last several months, the UNESCO-Obiang Prize in Life Sciences has generated more controversy than the organization has seen in decades. Facing a global outcry, the president of Equatorial Guinea has tried to fire back with some good old-fashioned do-gooding.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: anticorruption, Equatorial Guinea, obiang, Spain, unesco
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A sordid saga of cross-border kidnapping, a kangaroo trial, and high-speed executions shows that the president of Equatorial Guinea takes his own solemn promises to reform no more seriously than anyone else.
Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: anticorruption, Equatorial Guinea, Kenneth Hurwitz, obiang, unesco
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The hypocrisy of an award recognizing scientists whose work has improved the “quality of life” being named after the leader of one of the worst-governed nations on earth is galling.
Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: anticorruption, Equatorial Guinea, Erica Razook, obiang, unesco
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It's a shame that Equatoguineans had to go to Switzerland just to have a chance to address their own government. But the inclusion of their voices is a small but critical step towards achieving accountability, rule of law, and the protection of human rights.
Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability
Topics: anticorruption, civil society, Equatorial Guinea, Erica Razook
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Even in the staid, suits-filled chambers of the Dirken Senate Building in Washington, bouts of snickers could be heard today as the Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations tried to get answers from US lawyers who have represented African dictators and their family members in...
Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability, United States
Topics: anticorruption, Equatorial Guinea, Erica Razook
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