AWTAD Anti-Corruption Organization

لدي بروتوكول خاص لمثل هذه الحالات ، حيث سأقسم الجائزة إلى أربعة أجزاء:

The first part: 10% for charitable humanitarian work. I offer this amount to finance projects to help displaced families in Yemen.These projects have been implemented by our organization since 2019

The second part: 20% investments for the benefit of the organization (such as buying commercial shares) and its profits are spent for the operating expenses of our organization, due to the war and conflict in Yemen and the suspension of government support and salaries, we face great difficulties to finance the operating expenses of the organization.

Part Three: 60% to fund the international campaign “Peace Without Corruption” This campaign started as a national campaign in 2018, and in 2020, on International Anti-Corruption Day, I announced that it would be transformed into an international campaign.

Part 4: 10% for my personal expenses

I was one of the young people who participated in igniting the youth revolution in Yemen in 2011.

 One of the most important goals of our revolution was to fight corruption, because Yemen is one of the most widespread countries in the world in terms of corruption. So I founded AWTAD to fight corruption in 2012, and despite the war in Yemen six years ago, our organization continued to work and did not stop.

Our basic vision is that peace, stability and development can only be achieved by fighting corruption and promoting transparency and good governance. Civil society and activists must play an important role in achieving this.

We achieved a lot of success, and our organization was chosen to be the representative of civil society in the National Integrity System in Yemen, and in the Committee for the Evaluation and Development of Anti-Corruption Laws.

We carried out many activities, uncovered many major corruption crimes, and presented many studies and research, and launched several campaigns, the most important of which is the "Peace Without Corruption" campaign.

She obtained membership in many international organizations and study and research centers, and won a symbolic international prize for the year 2020

Corrupt and war merchants in countries suffering from conflict and crises are trying to impose the rule of "corruption for peace" "to whiten their corruption and grant them immunities through peace agreements.

In order for them to have a share of power in the post-conflict phase, to practice corruption again, and the result is that peace and stability do not continue in those countries, to enter again into the circle of crises and wars after short years, as happened in Yemen after the agreement of the "Gulf Initiative to Resolve the Yemeni Crisis 2011". And in many countries, such as Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, and others.

There are many factors that contribute to creating the problem, perhaps the most important of which is that all of this is under the supervision and auspices of the United Nations, the Security Council and the major powers.

It started as a national campaign that we launched in Yemen during the year 2018, and in the year 2020 the “Peace Without Corruption” campaign won the “Rule-breaker” award within the “Accelerators of Change Around the World 2020” awards, so we turned it into an international campaign, to prevent this from happening in the future.

When we launched our campaign for the first time on the International Anti-Corruption Day 2018, there was strong opposition to the campaign’s theme and objectives. The main reason for the current war in Yemen

The media and authorities in Yemen tried to obscure the campaign and prevented the press conference from being published in the media. They considered that we were wrong.

Last month, the former United Nations envoy to Yemen, “Mr. Jamal bin Omar,” admitted during an interview with Al-Jazeera, he admitted this fact, even though he was the architect of that agreement.

In the year 2020, our campaign won an international prize (symbolic), that was a victory for our campaign, it was ranked the most daring and courageous campaigns around the world that broke the traditional rules.

 On International Anti-Corruption Day 2020, we announced the "Peace Without Corruption" campaign, an international campaign, in which we demanded the amendment of international anti-corruption conventions. This month, nearly 100 organizations from around the world (including ours) signed a letter addressed to the UNGASS against Corruption 2021 demanding It addresses the gaps and weaknesses of the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

This confirms that our campaign is unique and deserving of attention

We have defined our demands and how the problem we are facing can be addressed through the press releases of the campaign. Through our campaign, we are trying to put pressure on the United Nations, the governments of states and parties to the conflict in countries suffering from wars and crises, by not allowing peace endeavors and attempts to be exploited in order to protect corruption and the corrupt. And the imposition of international sanctions for those who try to do so.

We are trying to form a public opinion locally, regionally and internationally to confront this problem, and for local organizations and activists in countries and regions of conflicts and crises join us, we are trying to make real change in international agreements and laws, international treaties and conventions, and in future peace agreements, and the Security Council and the major countries must refuse to recognize With any peace agreements if they provide protection for corruption and the corrupt.

Since 2018, we have been working with our own capabilities, without any funding sources, through press conferences, e-mail correspondence and social media, and we are trying to expand our tools and activities in the event we obtain campaign financing.