he Arab alliance for anti-corruption alliance composed of a number of Arab countries has been announced in Sana’a Thursday. The Yemeni Human Rights for Information and Training Centre HRITC is leading this alliance. It has come to confirm the important and effective role of the civil society in fighting corruption and this emerges from article 13 of the International convention on anti-corruption. The alliance is to carry out a number of activities in the member states aimed at dissemination of enlightenment on danger of corruption and enhancement of the role of the civil society in anticorruption as well as building teams of national alliance especially for integrity and anticorruption. On the other hand meetings of the regional course on role of the civil society in anticorruption were concluded Thursday in the Yemeni capital Sana’a. The course is organized by the HRITC in cooperation with Pasteur Institute Middle East Partnership Initiative MEPI. The course was attended by participants from 35 countries, among them Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia and Yemen.