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misleading capitalisation in lead paragraph

The second last sentence in the lead paragraph is "TI is a member of UNESCO Consultative Status[3], United Nations Global Compact[4] and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions and Partnerships For the Goals."

The capitalisation in "United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions and Partnerships For the Goals" is misleading in that it indicates that there exists an official UN organisation/group with that very long and unwieldy name. No such entity does exist. Moreover, Sustainable Development Goals is an article - very reasonably - about the sustainable goals of the UN and not about a group, so it would not be possible to be a member of it as it is not any kind of entity, of which anything or anyone could be member.

However there is a United Nations Sustainable Development Group.

Also there is a link in that article,United Nations Sustainable Development Group, to the article Sustainable Development Goals (about the UN goals) to which the the current article links those three words in the subject sentence, and I'm guessing that the editor who penned this was trying to get in all the info in a sentence including the words "Sustainable Development Goals".

I have therefore changed the sentence to:

"TI is a member of UNESCO Consultative Status[3], United Nations Global Compact[4] and United Nations Sustainable Development Group."

leaving out the link to the Sustainable Development Goals article, which can now still be reached indirectly via United Nations Sustainable Development Group.

However I don't (yet) have a reference to prove that TI is a member of UNSDG Hedles (talk) 08:44, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Further to the above, the Wikipedia article,United Nations Sustainable Development Group, contains a list of member organisations. TI is not on that list. Neither "UNSDG" nor "united nations sustainable development group" occurs in either the international TI website, https://www.transparency.org, nor the UK TI website, https://www.transparency.org.uk, although many of their publications refer to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. TI also refers to itself in at least one of it's own publications as a 'non'governmental organisation, "Transparency International (TI) is the world’s leading nongovernmental anti-corruption organisation." https://ti-defence.org/publications/the-fifth-column/

The UNSDG web site, https://unsdg.un.org has one mention of "transparency international" and one of its publications, https://unsdg.un.org/sites/default/files/c4d-effectiveness-of-UN-EN.pdf lists one of TI's publications amongst its references. But there is no mention of TI being a member or even affiliated with UNSDG.

On the basis of this lack of evidence, therefore, rather than stating something which may not be true, I have removed completely the claim (which I made in my last edit) of TI's membership of UNSDG and replaced a sentence similar in meaning to the phrase I replaced but without making any claims of membership. Hedles (talk) 10:41, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Political activities in Brazil - insufficient sources / questionable allegations

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

I would like to flag in line with the Wiki CoI guidelines that I am working at Transparency International e.V. I am therefore not making any changes to this article myself but am posting my concerns about a specific topic on this talk page. At the same time, this is not an official Wikipedia account of the organisation, and I am not representing the organisation through this account:

In the section on “controversies” there is a paragraph on “Political activities in Brazil”. In this paragraph it is stated that severe misconduct has been committed by Transparency International.

The relevant statements are the following:

1.     “In these, chief prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol and head of TI Brazil, Bruno Brandão, discuss a "backstage campaign" to "disarm resistance on the left", fund selected candidates, and target others, seen as adversaries, using social media.”

2.     “Plans extended to preparing a series of false accusations ("denúncias sem materialidade") intended to damage the reputation of former president and potential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, […]”

3.     “[…] and lead up to a chat in which participants celebrate the election of Jair Bolsonaro.

These are incorrect factual claims. Neither are the disputed claims proven facts, nor do the linked sources support the claims. Even if it was worded as a disputed allegation, the provided sources do not support the accusations. The sources do e.g. not support the claims that the Executive Director of TI Brazil celebrated the election of Jair Bolsonaro, or that he prepares a series of false accusations to damage the reputation of Lula da Silva.

I therefore ask the Wikipedia community to double check those claims and the provided sources for their accuracy and reliability. Should the sources not support the claims, then it should be corrected accordingly, or reliable sources should be provided.  

I would like to further flag that the allegations are focusing on a living person, the Executive Director of TI Brazil. In line with Wikipedia policies, high-quality sources are necessary in cases like this:

“All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be supported by an inline citation to a reliable, published source. Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—must be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion.”

Furthermore, there should be a clear differentiation between TI e.V. and the National Chapter in Brazil. Both organisations are separate legal entities in their respective country.

I am looking forward to a review of the paragraph in question.

Thanks! Transparency 24 (talk) 15:43, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Wiki community,

unfortunately, the paragraph and allegations mentioned above have not been reviewed yet. I would highly appreciate it if the content could be reviewed. I personally think the allegations are not based on reliable sources and should, especially since they are referring to a living person, be amended.

Thanks! Transparency 24 (talk) 06:33, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: Please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. NotJamestack (talk) 00:46, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Transparency International

Transparency International (TI) works with US Department of State according to this report. TI works with US government under the banner of Global Anti-Corruption Consortium (GACC) a program for which the tender was put out by US Department of State. TI has received 3 million USD under this program.

I think it is important to mention this in the article.

https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/international/021224/hidden-links-between-giant-investigative-journalism-and-us-government DataCrusade1999 (talk) 05:59, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a section about the GACC programme. Paul W (talk) 14:12, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comment - allegations against a living person in the section "Political activities in Brazil"

The following discussion is an archived record of a request for comment. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

Closing per point 6 of WP:RFCCLOSE: WP:RFCBEFORE was not followed. RfC is not the correct avenue to make an edit request as an editor with a conflict of interest. Yue🌙 21:30, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Wiki Community,

I have raised this matter of the serious allegations made against a living person (Bruno Brandão) on the Transparency International Wikipedia page (under "political activities in Brazil") back in 2024 via the Transparency International talk page. I have posted the matter on WikiProject pages and Noticboards (e.g. the Noticeboard for Biographies of living persons) throughout the last 18 months, but so far the section has not been reviewed / no comment has been provided. I am now adding here a request for comment on the matter. I hope this will lead to a review of the content and a discussion on the matter, considering these are serious allegations against a living person that create a direct risk for that individual.

Thank you for your support with this! Transparency 24 (talk) 13:33, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, could you explain the problem in a few sentences here? What do you propose and why?

I've looked at the sources and the passage does seem problematic but I'd like to hear the explanation from you first and other editors would benefit from it too. Alaexis_¿question? 21:34, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Transparency 24: In accordance with WP:RFCBEFORE, please provide links to the places that you claim this has been discussed. Have they really reached deadlock, making it necessary to hold a full-blown thirty-day formal WP:RFC that will bring in all manner of random outsiders. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:37, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.