Saddam Al-Adwar- For National Yemen
A number of youth activist and volunteers
are preparing to launch the Call for Awareness Campaign in Yemen in
conjunction with the international campaign that carries the same
slogan. The international campaign was launched at the World Youth
Summit in Switzerland last September. Yemen was represented by a number
of youth activist worked with representatives of over 100 countries
around the world who agreed unanimously to initiate a global campaign.
As a result of this decision, on February 1st
thousands of people from around the world will send the a unified
message of “This is a Call for Awareness” to establish a movement of
cooperation and peace that will lead to an international change on
February 1st.
This international campaign will be
launched on the same day that Yemen will be celebrating its
unprecedented transfer of power.. Accordingly, the participating youth
activists intend to send a strong message to the new President and the
Government of National Reconciliation, Central Forces, accounting
sectors, civil society organizations and decision makers. They will have
certain demands that include reconsidering the policy of institutions
and centers and their functions, providing a real transparent and
regulatory system for the institutions, creating a law for civil society
organizations, monitoring the performance of the centers, and
establishing a special prosecutor of corruption that works alongside the
head offices of Yemeni institutions. They will also advocate to
establish special courts for the institutions to reduce length of
handling case files in order to contribute to the speed in which
decisions are made. In addition, they will advocate to initiation of a
new mechanism for the functions of institutions aside from the
Representatives Council and Council of Ministers as well as demand to
reduce the supervision of the presidency on all these mechanisms.
The campaign coordinator in Yemen,
Abdullah Al-Maisari stated that the campaign’s targeted groups include
all political, economists, social and other individuals who are harming
the public interest. Talking about the strategy of the campaign,
Al-Maisari said participants in each country will focus on one of the
vital institutions in the country that commit serious abuses such as
corruption, bribery and injustice. They will protest various policies of
these institutions by using the tools they have to following different
methodologies. These tools include peacefully protesting in front of the
institutions, launching campaigns in the internet, organizing on social
networking like Face book and Twitter, as well as creating and
spreading videos. Al-Maisari stated that the campaign has started its
media related activities and its efforts will be beginning on February
21st. According to him, the campaign will have strong media
support and will help send the send a unified message throughout the
world.
