{"id":3498,"date":"2023-03-01T11:16:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T05:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T07:15:22","slug":"first-g20-anti-corruption-working-group-meeting-acwg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/first-g20-anti-corruption-working-group-meeting-acwg\/","title":{"rendered":"First G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group Meeting (ACWG)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About the first G- 20 ACWG Meeting:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is under India\u2019s chairpersonship, and <strong>Italy is the co-chair country<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Over 90 delegates from 20 member countries, 10 Invitee countries, and 9 International Organizations will engage in <strong>detailed deliberations on strengthening International Anti-corruption mechanisms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Enhancing the effectiveness of <strong>asset-tracing and identification mechanisms;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Developing mechanisms for <strong>rapid restrain of illicit assets;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Promoting <strong>effective use of<\/strong> <strong>open-source information and asset recovery networks<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The theme<\/strong> of India&#8217;s G20 Presidency is &#8211; <strong>\u201cVasudhaivaKutumbakam\u201d<\/strong> or \u201cOne Earth. One Family, One Future\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Background of ACWG:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group (ACWG) was <strong>set up in June 2010 at the Toronto Summit.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>G20 ACWG has been at the <strong>forefront of guiding the anti-corruption initiatives of G20 countries<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Primary Goal:<\/strong> To prepare &#8220;comprehensive recommendations for consideration by leaders on how the G20 could continue to make practical and <strong>valuable contributions to international efforts to combat corruption.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>ACWG will explore the <strong>proactive sharing of information<\/strong>, <strong>improving<\/strong> the existing <strong>Mutual Legal Assistance framework<\/strong> and simplifying mechanisms for <strong>sharing of information<\/strong> between domestic law enforcement authorities in criminal matters.\u202f<\/li>\n<li>The ACWG actively works with the <strong>World Bank Group, OECD, UNODC, IMF<\/strong>, and <strong>FATF<\/strong>, as well as with Business 20 (B20) and the Civil Society 20 (C20).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Q1) What is OECD?<\/p>\n<p>The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Four-day-Anti-Corruption-Working-Group-meeting-of-G-20-nations-to-be-held-in-Gurugram&amp;id=456637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>G-20 meeting of Anti Corruption Working Group begins in Gurugram; India says, multilateral action required more than bilateral coordination for timely disposal of cases<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group is under India\u2019s chairpersonship, and Italy is the co-chair country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}