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1Africa01

Public health inspector

Nominee one

Refused to sign off contaminated water certificates for a mining concession, published the laboratory results, and was dismissed and prosecuted for breach of confidentiality.

votes32%

2Europe02

Bank compliance officer

Nominee two

Handed regulators evidence of a sanctions-evasion pipeline after two years of being told internally to drop it. Now unemployable in the sector and facing a civil claim.

votes24%

3Asia03

Local newspaper editor

Nominee three

Kept publishing the names of officials implicated in land seizures after her office was raided twice and her printer was threatened into refusing her business.

votes18%

4Americas04

Factory safety engineer

Nominee four

Warned for eleven months that a structure would fail, was ignored, went to the press the week before it did, and lost his licence for it.

votes12%

5MENA05

Court interpreter

Nominee five

Testified that confessions she had been asked to translate had been extracted under duress, and left the country the same week with her family.

votes9%

6Global06

Warehouse worker

Nominee six

Filmed what was happening to the night shift and posted it under his own name, because doing it anonymously would have let the company deny it.

votes5%

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