Impact of Iraq's accession to the 2003 United Nations Convention against Financial and administrative corruption

Abstract

The phenomenon of financial and administrative corruption is a major challenge in many societies because of the damage it entails to increase the cost of public service, mismanagement, waste of justice, waste of the principle of equality of opportunities, disruption of market mechanisms and the cessation of competition, which negatively affects the values ​​of social justice and political as well as human rights.
To combat this phenomenon, the United Nations Convention against Corruption was adopted at the international level in 2003, which represents a comprehensive strategy to combat corruption, as it relies on legislative and administrative mechanisms, and works on a mechanism to keep pace with implementation and work on some kind of judicial cooperation between States Parties .In view of the fact that Iraq is a party to the Convention and in order to benefit from its rules and provisions and what States Parties may provide to each other in this regard and in the light of the Iraqi national legislation concerned with the relevant set of legal rules, in particular those relating to the establishment of regulatory bodies and the legislative framework for their work, On the criminalization of the violation of public funds and the penalties they entail, all to find out the compatibility of such legislation and the provisions of the United Nations Convention against Corruption Financial and administrative.