A/HRC/23/26 to emphasize the same approach in the post-2015 development agenda, because efforts to combat corruption were most effective when coupled with an approach that respected all human rights, including those of the accused. Noting that there was growing awareness of the intrinsic links between human rights and the struggle to combat corruption, she stressed the urgent need to increase synergy between efforts to implement the United Nations Convention against Corruption and international human rights conventions. Strengthened policy coherence and collaboration was required between UNODC, UNDP, OHCHR, civil society and the intergovernmental processes in Vienna, Geneva and New York. Recalling that, from 2000 to 2009, developing countries had lost US$8.44 trillion to illicit financial flows, 10 times more than the foreign aid they had received, the High Commissioner pointed out that the impact of corruption on development and on human rights was multifaceted; so too must be the response. 6 Mr. Marschall said that, when Transparency International had begun its crusade against corruption, the link between anti-corruption efforts and human rights had not been so clear. After two decades of hard work, Transparency International had come to the realization that the two were closely and deeply linked. Corruption was a violation of human rights and the fight against it could not be successful if there was only a focus on economic development. The focus should be on people and how corruption was devastating their lives; a people-centred approach was a human rights approach. The moderator also reported on a social media campaign about the human rights case against corruption that OHCHR had been running with UNODC, UNDP and Transparency International ahead of the panel discussion.1 The hashtag #RightsNotBribes created on Twitter for the campaign had reached almost 2.3 million unique users within a week. Some 1,000 people and organizations had sent tweets using this hashtag and generated more than 11.5 million potential views. The campaign also included a Google+ Hangout online video discussion broadcast live on YouTube. 7. Ms. Pursuhottam shared several testimonies from a research study coordinated by the Huairou Commission, where grassroots women in eight countries from 11 organizations across Africa, Latin America and South Asia had documented the impact of corruption on women and how they fought it. Grassroots women experienced corruption as endemic, pervasive and part of their everyday life experience, and about 63 per cent of them had reported having been asked to pay a bribe. Those women’s concern was about their rights and entitlements to basic services, their right to water and shelter, and their children’s right to education. She explained that the definition of corruption by grassroots women was more nuanced and included not just bribery or misuse of power, but also poor or absent service delivery, poor governance, as well as physical or sexual abuse. The study had found that accountability and governance were achieved not just because they participated in, but because they were affiliated to a mobilized constituency. This made a strong and direct case for their demand for more support. Many felt the need for education and information on corruption and legal expertise on how to fight it. Several existing anti-corruption strategies created laws and frameworks to protect rights but could not ensure their implementation. 8. In her testimony, Ms. Rodriguez Cerro spoke of the impact of corruption on access to justice, basic services, land and other rights. In rural areas, when women asked for something they were often also asked to pay in sex. Those women had created strategies together with the police and judges, courts and local governments, and they had been able to forge alliances with them so that women could obtain their own identity cards without getting involved in bribery. Grassroots women had to carve out their own space in the 1 4 See www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Development/GoodGovernance/Pages/HumanRightsAgainstCorruption.aspx.