A/HRC/4/71 page 13 society participation in governance processes, and strengthened Parliamentary oversight committees. Mr. Allan highlighted the need to support multipronged approaches to rights-based monitoring and advocacy and to develop corresponding advocacy strategies at the national, provincial and local levels. He added that attention must be given to strengthening both the capacity of duty-bearers to provide the information, explanations and justifications and of rights-holders to request, to access and to analyse information. Mr. Allan concluded by emphasizing the importance of securing United Nations recognition of social accountability as a right, with the long-term objective of rendering it justiciable. 28. Dejan Anastasijevic, a journalist, addressed the possible contribution of the media to the fight against corruption. First, he suggested that the role the media can play has been highly overstated, particularly in contexts where organized crime is rampant. He contended that the power of the media is an illusion nurtured by journalists, who like to believe they can influence events, and by politicians, who like to blame the media when things go wrong. As evidence of the press’s powerlessness, he cited a number of examples, including disregard for calls from the international press for military intervention to stop the war in Bosnia in its early stages. Mr. Anastasijevic observed that if prosecutors refuse to prosecute or courts refuse to hear cases, and if no real consequences follow the exposure of corrupt officials, all the press can do is to inform audiences about the situation. Shedding some light on matters does help, because organized crime fears exposure. Under these circumstances, it is particularly important that law enforcement agencies be devoid of corruption and not infiltrated by organized crime. He observed that many Governments have difficulties accepting the media as watchdogs, because they have a tendency to perceive those who are not directly tied to them as enemies, which is rather unfortunate given that both the media and Government are intended to serve the public. 29. Roy Snell, chief executive officer, Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE), proposed that the “supply side” of corruption be also addressed by including the private sector in efforts to tackle corruption. Engaging the private sector is advisable both because it is often involved in corruption and human rights violations, and because it can contribute to fighting corruption, supporting good governance and promoting human rights. He introduced the work of SCCE, one of several compliance and ethics programmes designed to fight corruption and human rights violations “from within”. While compliance programmes help organizations to conform to the rule of law, ethics programmes help them to achieve a higher standard than the rule of law. Mr. Snell described the professional certification that prepares compliance and ethics officers to provide oversight and to exercise their authority to investigate, to correct misconduct and to facilitate discipline in order to accomplish the change required to meet (or surpass) the law. He noted that this level of authority distinguishes compliance programmes from corporate social responsibility programmes, which can influence change but rarely have the authority to make it happen. He pointed out a variety of international compliance and ethics programmes, such as those of the Security and Exchange Board of India, the Global Compact, Transparency International and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Mr. Snell urged support for these programmes, because, among other things, change often comes easier when “the request for change comes from those who need to change”.