Thanks to the dedication of activists and reform-minded policy-makers, civil society is making real advancements in whistleblower rights. Blueprint for Free Speech congratulates everyone on the winning side of these important legislative victories!

Rights and protections for whistleblowers have been improved all over the world thanks to international and regional collaboration – particularly among NGOs and activists. To strengthen these joint efforts, Blueprint for Free Speech is co-hosting two important whistleblower events in Sarajevo on 18-19 June.

In a story that illustrates the risks and unpredictability of being a whistleblower, a government employee in Serbia was imprisoned with the complicity of the very same official whose alleged corruption she reported two years earlier.

Data privacy activists are calling for a National Day of Action against Metadata, as the new proposed Data Retention Legislation makes its way through the senate.

Members of the United Kingdom Parliament have been added to the list of prescribed persons to whom whistleblowers may make a protected disclosures under the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 1999.

The CSA Group (formerly the Canadian Standards Association) is set to develop a best practices guideline for whistleblowing arrangements within an organization. This is aimed at the public and private sectors, as well as NGOs and voluntary organizations.

Following a string of government and corporate scandals in recent years, Greece, which has seen a long has enacted its first legal protections for whistleblowers.

The Associated Whistle-Blowing Press (AWP) has officially launched its second local whistleblowing platform. The website, 'Fíltrala' (literally "leak it"), is targeted at the Spanish public and uses software developed by GlobaLeaks—an open-source whistleblowing framework for safe file transmission.

A Hungarian patent lawyer has become the subject in a criminal investigation after making a public interest disclosure regarding a security flaw in the National Intellectual Property Bureau (SZTNH) website.

On 21 February 2014 India’s Parliament passed the country’s first Whistleblower Protection Bill. The law will provide legal protections for people who report crimes committed by public servants, or corruption or misconduct that causes government losses.

In January 2014 the Bosnia and Herzegovina Whistleblower Protection Act came into effect.

In January 2014 Hungary’s new whistleblower law came into effect.The Complaints and Public Interest Disclosure Act, passed in October 2013, updated whistleblower law for public and private sector employees.