AMAN executive
director, Ghada Zughayar announced AMAN intend to establish an
- Advocacy and Legal Advice Center - serving casualties and
witnesses of cases related to corruption in the Palestinian
territories, indicating this center will be the first of kind in
the Arab World to handle such issue; clarifying that the center
will be equipped with legal consultants to follow up and handle
complaints submitted by Palestinian citizens and different
sectors of the society specifically journalists and
media-activists, who with a direct contact line to the center
will be provided with a legal advice.
Clarifying that
this step comes in the context of AMAN’s continuous efforts in
creating a community based pressure over decision makers towards
building clear policies in fighting corruption and highlighting the
destructive results of corruption affecting a wide spectrum of our
community.
This statement came
during a closing speech delivered by Zughayar at the end of a three
consecutive day training course held by AMAN for media reporters and
activists, Zughayar encouraged and stressed a future continuity of
such programs under -fighting corruption- theme by enhancing
capabilities and skills of local media reporters.
Mr. Mountaser
Hamdan, general coordinator of the media Network for Transparency
and Integrity called at different parts of media, press and
journalists to join the coalition to benefit the future activities
and programs offered; hinting that the Network made a significant
progress arranging its internal affairs as a basic block to ignite a
future chain of important activities.
Pointing that the
Network is willing to adopt and publicize investigative reports from
media activists and journalists wherever local media denied
publicizing, stressing the importance of spiritual group-working
that multiply the magnitude of impact on local media handling
corruption cases within the Palestinian community.
The workshop ended
by participants indicating the importance of an active website that
encourages ideas and suggestions in regard to corruption,
furthermore publicizing press investigations with what it takes of
legal help for journalists and media activists.
The training course
included different major lectures and discussions conducted by media
expert Bienaz Sameer Batrawi and the legal expert Nasser Al-Raiees,
where issues relating to the magnitude, phenomena, concepts and
impact of corruption were handled. Adding an opening entrance to
media and community cases, the role of journalism handling
corruption issues, morality of media profession, procedures required
to establish values against corruption and how journalism practice
its role as a forth authority and as a tool of community
supervision, not forgetting the United Nation Anti- Corruption
Convention with what it includes of international mechanisms.
