PPLAAF & CW Celebrate WWD with New Tool and Interviews
Date Published: 25 June 2025
To celebrate World Whistleblowing Day, the
Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF) and
Climate Whistleblowers (CW), both WIN Membership organisations, have done great work both together and apart.
Together, in their joint campaign for WWD, PPLAAF and CW are doing
street interviews, asking the Dakar, Johannesburg, and Paris public what they know of whistleblowing and their opinions on it. Do people know what it means to blow the whistle? Are people aware of the laws that protect them, or organisations that support them?
Climate Whistleblowers co-hosted "Ad Brake" during
London Climate Action Week: a sold-out event at Curzon Soho that brought together over 100 campaigners, creatives, investigative journalists, and activists to ask: "How can advertising stop fuelling the climate crisis?". They were proud to have
Polina Zabrodskaya, one of the first environmental whistleblowers from within the ad sector, on the panel, sharing powerful insights on greenwashing, internal pressures, and ways forward.
PPLAAF has announced a
new tool to search for protection legislation across Africa’s 54 countries. Twelve countries have enacted dedicated laws. South Africa was first out of the gate in 2000, followed by Ghana in 2006 and a steady stream of others, including Nigeria, Kenya, and most recently, Tanzania in 2022. These countries provide whistleblowers with a specific legal safeguard when coming forward.
At the other end, three countries—Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau—make only a passing nod to whistleblower protections, despite official promises to tackle corruption. Then there’s the large middle ground of thirty countries that give whistleblowers a mention within broader laws on corruption or organised crime. But without dedicated protection, this leaves whistleblowers vulnerable to victimisation.
International conventions from the United Nations and the African Union set standards, but without strong national laws to back them, whistleblowers will continue to face considerable risks across Africa.
Follow
PPLAAF &
CW on their social media to keep up to date.