Summary
Corruption includes the solicitation or acceptance of something of value in exchange for an advantage.
Obligations
Issues
Criteria
- The electoral management body maintained and implemented policies to prevent, address, and penalize acts of corruption, including during the voting process
- The vote-counting process was transparent and observable
- The electoral management body, as an organ of the state, implemented effective policies to discourage acts of corruption
Quotes
- This Convention is applicable to the following acts of corruption: a. The solicitation or acceptance, directly or indirectly, by a government official or a person who performs public functions, of any article of monetary value, or other benefit, such as a gift, favor, promise or advantage for himself or for another person or entity, in exchange for any act or omission in the performance of his public functions.
- 1. This Protocol shall be applicable to the following acts of corruption: a) a public official demanding or accepting, either directly or indirectly through a third party, any object of pecuniary value such as a gift, offer, a promise or an advantage of any nature, whether for himself or for another person, in exchange for an act or an omission in the discharge of his duties.
- The request or receipt by any of its public official, directly or indirectly, of any undue advantage, for himself or herself or for anyone else, or the acceptance of an offer or a promise of such an advantage, to act or refrain from acting in the exercise of his or her function.
- This Protocol is applicable to the following acts of corruption: a) the solicitation or acceptance, directly or indirectly, by a public official, of any article of monetary value, or other benefit, such as a gift, favour, promise or advantage for himself or herself or for another person or entity, in exchange for any act or omission in the performance of his or her public functions.
- This Convention is applicable to the following acts of corruption and related offences: (a) the solicitation or acceptance, directly or indirectly, by a public official or any other person, of any goods of monetary value, or other benefit, such as a gift, favour, promise or advantage for himself or herself or for another person or entity, in exchange for any act or omission in the performance of his or her public functions.