Publication Year: within 3 Years / Topic: Whistle Blowing

Author:: Claire Cookson-Hills
Publication Date:: 02-2024
Content Type:: Journal Article
Journal:: Journal of Military and Strategic Studies
Institution:: Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies
Abstract:: This article documents the history of revelations of sexual misconduct within the military, and places that history in the paradoxical context of the responses of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and the Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC). Starting in 1998 with the Maclean’s reporting, servicewomen have publicly shared their personal experiences of military sexual trauma. The history of these revelations has been written by journalists in conversation with servicewomen. Journalists have been supportive and ham-handed advocates of justice for survivors of military sexual violence. By contrast, both CAF and VAC have been reactionary in their responses to military sexual violence. Such focus on sexual violence stands in contrast to how servicewomen place the violence in the wider context of their career. After 2015, servicewomen have taken steps to advocate, organize, write their own stories publicly, and thereby put pressure on the Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs to change.
Topic:: Armed Forces, Women, Sexual Violence, Whistle Blowing, and Military
Political Geography:: Canada and North America

Author:: Marumo Omotoye
Publication Date:: 01-2022
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis
Abstract:: Adopting Botswana’s construction industry as a case study, this Policy Brief examines key barriers to effective whistleblowing in Botswana. Data were drawn from 117 construction firms and interviews with regulators of this sector. Despite the enactment of the Whistleblowing Act 2016, the study finds the following key barriers to effective whistleblowing: (i) fear of retaliation or punishment, (ii) fear of job loss, (iii) absence of organisational whistleblowing policies, (iv) lack of incentive to report, (v) lack of education on whistleblowing, and (vi) insufficient action and follow-up on disclosures by authorities. From a policy perspective, there is a need to strengthen the existing legal protection offered to whistleblowers, their families and associates to ensure they are not subject to harm, retaliation or victimisation. There is also a need to increase levels of education and awareness on whistleblowing in general, and the Whistleblowing Act 2016 in particular.
Topic:: Corruption, Regulation, Whistle Blowing, and Construction
Political Geography:: Africa and Botswana

Author:: Sofija Mandić
Publication Date:: 06-2022
Content Type:: Case Study
Institution:: Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP)
Abstract:: Can whistleblowers in Serbia exercise their guaranteed rights? How do their attempts to alert the public look like in practice? Read the answers to these questions in the text written by Sofija Mandić. The protection of whistle-blowers addressing the public in Serbia, directly or after internal and external whistleblowing, is under extremely restrictive rules. The legal requirements are set forth in such a way that sounding alarm to the public is almost impossible. Practice has shown that the cases of public whistleblowing, especially those with salient political component, are quickly prevented by prosecution of the whistle-blowers, who have no protection mechanism related to whistleblowing during the criminal proceedings. Domestic case law fundamentally resists the public whistleblowing in two ways. On the one hand, it does so by stipulating conditions extremely difficult to meet for direct public address. On the other, it does so by invoking the non-disclosure of secret data to the public. The latter leads to criminal proceedings against whistle-blowers, exhausting to the defendants and extremely deterrent for other whistle-blowers.
Topic:: Crime, Judiciary, Whistle Blowing, and Public Goods
Political Geography:: Europe and Serbia

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