Governments are not doing enough in the global fight against graft, anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) said Wednesday as it presented its annual corruption perceptions index. Many nations have made no progress at all over the past six years, the group found. "More corruption correlates with less respect for civil liberties, for rule of law, for access to justice," TI chair Delia Ferreira Rubio told AFP. "The index reflects the relation between transparency and democracy."

Over the past six years, some countries such as Senegal, Ivory Coast and Britain have bolstered efforts to battle corruption, TI found. Others have slipped lower in the NGO's worldwide ranking, including Syria - whose civil war will enter its eighth year in March - or Yemen, where fighting has raged for more than three years.

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