SANA'A, Aug 28 (Saba) – The Democratic School in collaboration with the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) launched on Thursday the Youth Network Against Corruption.

The association will be responsible for raising awareness among youths about civil rights and community participation in development and the fight against corruption.

The move comes to promote transparency and good governance and aimed at combating corruption as it began to take a very complicated form, head of the civil society department at the school Ez al-Din al-Asbabi said.

Al-Asbahi said there must be an effective network to fight corruption comprising of members from the Anti-Money Laundering Committee, Tender Committee, public funds courts, Central Organization for Control and Auditing, the National Supreme Anti-Corruption Commission as well as mass media, private sector and world experts.

For his part, head of the school Jamal al-Shami stressed the importance of the civil society partnership in the fight against corruption, pointing out that the new system aims to promote youth participation in doing this.

He said youths should work together with the National Supreme Anti-Corruption Commission to achieve this goal.

Yemen has been ranked number 131 out of 179 countries around the world and 14 out of 18 countries in the Middle East and North Africa regarding counteracting corruption. According to an international report, Yemen has shown signs of improvement in the quality of regulating laws.

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