Dr Nick Martin, is awarded the 2019 Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for his role in exposing grossly inadequate conditions and lack of medical care for refugees incarcerated by the Australian government on the island of Nauru.

Blueprint for Free Speech, together with Riparte il Futuro, FIBGAR, Courage Foundation and ASEBLAC, calls upon the European Council to amend the Directive proposal on whistleblower protection. A copy of our open letter can be found here.

The Spanish government is currently discussing a combined anti-corruption and whistleblower protection law. For a summary of the missing elements in the proposed legislation, read our new tool here

Blueprint has launched it's Working with Whistleblowers Initiative. We are developing the first international guidelines for journalists working with whistleblowers in the digital age.

In a historic step toward effective to protect whistleblowers around the globe, the European Commission published its proposed new European Directive on Whistleblowing this week. The initiative comes after two years of intense political debate in Brussels, fueled by input from both political and civil society stakeholders.

Blueprint's new report series on whistleblower protection in Europe shows that protections are still low across EU countries. Whistleblowers need stronger, more comprehensive laws - and those laws need to work in practice.

Blueprint recommends 24 fundamental principles that should be included in any whistleblower protection law.