Transparency International is a non governmental organization dedicated to increasing government accountability and curbing both international and national corruption. The TI movement has multiple concerns: * Humanitarian, as corruption undermines and distorts development and leads to increasing levels of human rights abuse; democratic, as corruption undermines democracies and in particular the achievements of many developing countries and countries in transition; * Ethical, as corruption undermines a society's integrity; * and practical, as corruption distorts the operations of markets and deprives ordinary people of the benefits which should flow from them.