GOVERNANCE NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW WITH DR. NASER AL-SANE, CHAIR OF THE ARAB REGION PARLIAMENTARIANS AGAINST CORRUPTION (ARPAC)

BY RAMI G. KHOURI

KUWAIT: When it was established in November 2004, the Arab Region Parliamentarians Against Corruption (ARPAC) charted new ground in the Arab world, where elected officials fighting corruption were a novel and unproven enterprise. Today, the founding chairman of the group, Kuwaiti MP Naser Al-Sane, describes their approach and activities in a manner that could be summarized as “shame and train”. 

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GOPAC GLOBAL TASK FORCE—PARLIAMENTARY ETHICS PROJECT

BY

MP GHASSAN MOUKHEIBER—

MP LEBANON, CHAIR OF THE WORKING GROUP

The issue of parliamentary ethics has, of late, taken center stage on an international level; parliaments all over the world are following in some pioneering countries’ footsteps, developing parliamentary codes of conduct of their own as part of a broader system of parliamentary and political ethics. 

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