At the conference of the contracting states of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, today in Atlanta, on the initiative of "Pistaljka", the first resolution on the protection of whistleblowers in the UN was adopted.
It is said to be the first that Serbia has ever proposed in the field of fighting corruption, it was published on the Pishtaljka website, reports N1.
In writing the resolution, apart from Pisthalka, the American non-governmental organization Project for Responsible Government and the UNKAK Coalition from Vienna participated.
The resolution was negotiated during a five-day conference of 190 signatory states to the UN Convention against Corruption. On behalf of Serbia, as members of the delegation, the negotiations were led by the founders and editors of Pistahlka, Dragana Matović and Vladimir Radomirović, together with the assistant minister of justice of that country, Vladimir Vinša.
The resolution establishes for the first time the rights of whistleblowers at the global level, such as the right not to determine the whistleblower's motives for filing a report, then the right to compensation for retaliation suffered, as well as the right to receive legal assistance from expert lawyers outside the state sector.
The resolution was submitted at the official proposal of Serbia and Palestine, and was supported by the European Union, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Norway, Thailand, Mexico, Morocco, Brazil, Honduras, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Namibia, Peru, Kuwait, Burkina Faso, Lebanon with their co-sponsorship. and Colombia.
Pistaljka was founded in 2010 by journalists-whistleblowers with the aim of investigating corruption and providing assistance and protection to people who point it out.
It is one of two organizations in the world that provides whistleblowers with free legal aid, and so far it has represented more than 130 whistleblowers in court and given more than 3.500 legal advice, according to the Pisthaljka website.
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