
Helen Darbishire 🇪🇺
@helen_access
Human rights & transparency activist
Founder-Director @Access_Info /
OGP Envoy
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⚠️ Shocking ruling from EU Court of Justice which declares invalid the provision of the #AMLD5 that requires #EU countries to provide public access to #BeneficialOwnership registers. Read our statement: access-info.org/2022-11-23/ope…

“Anonymous companies are used in the majority of large #corruption cases and for laundering stolen assets, and experience shows that law enforcement does not always identify and expose these cases," says Helen Darbishire 🇪🇺


Here is Access Info Europe's analysis of the Court of Justice ruling on beneficial ownership registers: a huge blow for anti-corruption orgs and investigative journos.🤦🏻♀️ We will work hard to change this! access-info.org/2022-11-23/ope…

Thanks Helen Darbishire 🇪🇺 ! This is outrageous & indeed a huge blow for journalists & civil society. It shows how urgent it is to get binding measures on media transparency into the #mediafreedomact! EFJ EDRi information labs European Data Journalism Network @EESC_LiaisonG Eva Simon Global Forum for Media Development #MediaDev


🌍 34 African and European CSOs have raised concerns about the EU Court of Justice ruling against #BeneficialOwnership transparency ONEinEU Transparency International Open Gov Partnership Open Ownership Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC) Open State Foundation opencorporates Read the statement: access-info.org/2022-11-28/civ…

A very compelling thread of arguments on why we should be keeping Beneficial Ownership registers open from Maria Pevchikh #botransparency #transparency #opendata #anticorruption

Opening data is also crucial for investigative journalists, as Karina Shedrofsky from Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project will explain to us on Friday at the launch of the #GlobalDataBarometer


🇲🇹 Malta was one of the countries included in the #GlobalDataBarometer study, and Matthew Caruana Galizia, director of Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, will give us some insights from the country



As a madrileña of 17 years now, who witnessed the transformation of the river area, "Madrid Río" into a wonderful park to which nature has returned, and which I visit often, I highly recommend this excellent POLITICOEurope article by Aitor Hernández-Morales politico.eu/article/madrid…

🏆 Big win for #transparency in Malta! 🇲🇹 ⚖️ Malta’s Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of Access Info Europe recognising that all #EU citizens have a right to submit information requests in the country! Read it here: access-info.org/2023-01-26/mal…




Carlos Cordero @Carlossustentia, President of Access Info Europe explains the importance of opening company ownership data to fight corruption and disinformation in Europe and globally. Transparencia Vzla


Romina Colman Romina Colman 💕 of Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project gives an excellent presentation on the importance of beneficial ownership data for exposing complex international corruption networks. With Carlos Cordero of Access Info Europe @Carlossustentia Drew Sullivan antonio baquero



Was bringen Informationsfreiheitsgesetze in anderen europäischen Ländern? Erfahrungen von FragDenStaat.de @arnesemsrott und Access Info Europe Helen Darbishire 🇪🇺, eingeholt von tanja 🤯 malle im Mittagsjournal Ö1 Journale vom Sa. oe1.orf.at/player/2023090…