Topic > Protection of Whistleblowers - 1210

Bearing in mind that a whistleblower is a person who informs about a person or organization believed to be engaged in an illegal or immoral activity, Fully aware that whistleblowers have fundamental rights consistent with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights, The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, stating that to receive protection under whistleblower protection policies , individuals must make the report with good intention, have a short, reasonable description that misconduct has occurred and it must be made as soon as possible, Emphasizing that making a report or providing information deliberately or deceptively generates misconduct and could be terminated in an administrative or disciplinary action, Recognizing that the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 provides legal protection to employees who make disclosures and the council expands the principles of the law in this charter offer employees, councillors, governors, partners, service users and citizens the same way to raise concerns, pointing out that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Whistleblower Protection Program strengthens whistleblower provisions, protecting employees who report misconduct and provide good-faith information about wrongdoing, preventing employers of discriminating against its employees for asserting their rights under the law, noting that in 2005, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan published a whistleblower protection policy that was enhanced with the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and other whistleblower law experts, pointing out that Articles 32 and 33 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption supported pro...... half of the paper...... outside of organizational walls that close a gap that constantly invalidates the real protection of whistleblowers; 5) Urges countries that do not have comprehensive whistleblower protection laws to legislate and countries have already had laws to review their legislations with the following guiding principles in mind:a. Relevant issues in different areas of law should be included such as, but not limited to:i. Labor law, which protects employees against dismissal, denial of overtime or promotion, demotion and which increases people's confidence, ii. Media law which protects journalistic sources in particular, iii. Specific anti-corruption preventions, iv. Civil immunity of whistleblowers in case of insult, b. Laws should protect all those who, with good intentions, make use of existing internal whistleblowing links;