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World
Brazil: Decreto 8420/15 "Clean Companies Act" from 2015
The Decree provides a substantive list of 16 elements that will be taken into consideration when authorities evaluate a company's compliance program. This includes, amongst others, channels to report irregularities openly and broadly disseminated among employees and third parties, and mechanisms to protect good-faith whistleblowers.
India: Whistleblowers Protection Bill 2011 from 2014
This bill is concerned with setting up a public whistleblowing system for reporting suspected cases of corruption or other instances of public offices being misused. One chapter of the bill is aimed at the comprehensive protection of whistleblowers.
