An alliance of more than 350 of the world`s civil society organizations called for the of UN Anti-corruption Convention states` Summit, currently taking place in Panama, to take effective and intensified measures for the purpose of activating the Convention`s provisions to deliver humanity from crimes that have become a threat for the future of peoples.

The alliance asserted, in a draft statement presented to Panama Summit members, that after 10 years and since the announcement of the UN Convention, there are still many of corruption crimes being committed and perpetrators flee away of penalty. This requires adopting more intensified procedures to implement the International Convention`s provisions and commit all parties to them.

The Executive Director of the Foundation of Democratic Culture Peoples, Sa`eed Yasien Musa explained that the Statement of the International Alliance of Anti-Corruption Convention suggests a series of steps and measures towards executing the provisions of the International Convention. He said in a talk with the CoI media Center`s delegate to Panama that at the forefront of the required measures is to call on countries that haven`t yet acceded in the Convention to sign and endorse it as soon as possible.

He pointed out that the alliance calls for the Convention states to enact laws allowing the procurement of information regarding the prevention of corruption crimes in all their sorts and sources; ensuring the freedom of publishing information about political public figures; obligating such figures to disclose their financial status; and regarding corruption as one of the dangers that threaten the platforms of the work of banks and financial institutions.

The Statement items stress the need to protect whistle blowers of corruption, observe the sources of financing the parties and election campaigns, and ensure the presence of effective procedures to suspend the immunity of public officials accused of corruption. Moreover, the items emphasized to compensate the victims of corruption and grant them the right of prosecuting corrupts. 

Musa noted that the CSOs alliance also stressed the need to adopt laws, by the Convention states, that prevent the availability of safe havens for the stolen assets, facilitate returning such assets to their source countries. As well as to give opportunity for relevant international organizations including, the Arab Forum of Recovering Stolen Assets to cooperate with countries to recover the stolen assets.