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The International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) and the Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) have announced the joint organization of a Special Session during the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on Anti-Corruption. This biennial conference serves as the principal policymaking body of the UN Convention, dedicated to supporting States parties and signatories in their commitment to implement the Convention and providing policy guidance to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for the development and execution of anti-corruption initiatives. SIGA is the world’s leading organisation for Sport Integrity and works with sport, governments, academia, international organisations, sponsors, Business , rights holders, NGOs and professional services companies. This newspaper is a proud media partner of SIGA. Importance of integrity, anti-corruption and compliance in Sport The promotion of integrity, anti-corruption and compliance in Sport has become one of th...

Russia and China will look to gain more political and economic ground in the developing world at a summit in South Africa this week JOHANNESBURG -- JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Russia and China will look to gain more political and economic ground in the developing world at a summit in South Africa this week, when an expected joint dose of anti-West grumbling from them may take on a sharper edge with a formal move to bring Saudi Arabia closer. Leaders from the BRICS economic bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will hold three days of meetings in Johannesburg's financial district of Sandton, with Chinese premier Xi Jinping's attendance underlining the diplomatic capital his country has invested in the bloc over the last decade-and-a-bit as an avenue for its ambitions. Russian President Vladimir Putin will appear on a video link after his travel to South Africa was complicated by an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against him over the war in Ukraine. Brazili...