This research was undertaken over a four-month period in 2018 and finalized in September of that year by Government Accountability Project Carvalho Fellow, Anna Levy. Despite enormous shifts and gains in the field of dissent and whistleblowing in international organizations and NGOS in the past three years, Levy hopes that her findings might [...]
(April 2020): Government Accountability Project conducted a year-long study on the effects of the cleanup agent Corexit used in the wake of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This report, marking the 10th anniversary of that spill, details the steep environmental, economic, and health tolls that the use of Corexit and government inaction have continued to take on people living in the Gulf of [...]
(September 2019): Government Accountability Project examined the progress of five major international banks in implementing their whistleblower policies. The report seeks not to evaluate the existing policies but rather to assess their implementation; such assessment is necessary to determine if whistleblower claims are being resolved appropriately and moreover whether the policies are working as [...]
(November 2018): Government Accountability Project collaborated with 11 other public interest organizations to record new and ongoing threats to the communication of science and its use in public health and environmental policy decisions, as well as recommending steps Congress can take in response (additional blog post here). Download the PDF
(September 2018): Preliminary report utilizing 30 court cases to assess the effectiveness of the comprehensive legal protections for whistleblowers, which South Africa adopted in 2000. Download the PDF
(January 2017): Analyzes the suppression of the first National Climate Assessment during the George W. Bush administration. By detailing how officials systematically censored sensitive climate change information, this report presents a strong case for supporting and defending the USGCRP and the climate change impacts assessment process. Download the PDF
(December 2016): Former Carvalho Fellow Keith Henderson provides extensive analysis concluding that the measures in place at the World Bank to protect staff members from retaliation after disclosing improprieties do not meet the best-practice standard set out in U.S. law. Download the PDF
(February 2016): Warns that arbitrary rulings could discourage disclosures by convincing would-be whistleblowers that the Security and Exchange Commission’s award system: “neither offers proportional incentives that overcome the risks of disclosure, nor is grounded in the reality whistleblowers face…” Download the PDF
(August 2014): Details ten representative whistleblower cases from the United Nations and its funds, programs and agencies. The report examines the institution’s failure to implement best practices for the protection of whistleblowers, in violation of the 2014 U.S. Consolidated Appropriations Act. Download the PDF
(September 2013): This best practices report aims to inform legal counsel for whistleblowers about how to navigate banking and financial institution whistleblower claims – not only under protection laws, but also under federal statutes that can provide financial rewards to clients. Download the PDF