Transparency Watch (TW): 2008 was the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights do you view corruption as a threat to this vision?
Mary Robinson (MR): Very much so. I was very keen to ensure that we made good links during the anniversary year with the many chapters of Transparency International that are tackling corruption and people on the ground who are addressing violations of human rights as there is a real overlap.
When we launched the Elders campaign Every Human Has Rights Cobus de Swardt [managing director of Transparency International] came to Cape Town for it. Huguette Labelle [chair of Transparency International] and myself are members of the board of the UN Global Compact and so we also worked in that framework to encourage more linking between human rights and corruption advocates because corruption leads to huge violations of human rights.
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