Increasing Transparency in Governance in the Arab World
محمد البارودى Ýí 2009-10-22
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 14pt">Increasing Transparency in Governance in the Arab World: </span></b></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 14pt">MPAli Ashal, MP Sakhar Al Wageh</span></b></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Greater media freedom and access to information is a cornerstone to good governance and fighting corruption. There are generally accepted common core characteristics of freedom of information laws necessary for them to operate successfully:</span></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Most Arab countries do not have a regulatory framework that meets these criteria. Although Jordan established the first access to information law of its kind in the region in 2007, working journalists have been critical of its implementation.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">With support from IREX and the Middle East Partnership Initiative, the International Senior Lawyers Project has been providing assistance to parliamentarians and civil society activists throughout the Gulf region to support their efforts to develop freedom of information laws and increase transparency and accountability in their societies. </span></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Richard N. Winfield </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">serves of counsel to Clifford Chance US, LLP and leads the media law reform projects of the International Senior Lawyers Program, which he co-founded in 2000. Since 2002 he has taught courses in comparative mass media law and American mass media law and Internet law at Columbia Law School and Fordham University in New York City . Since 2006 he has served as Chairman of the World Press Freedom Committee. For more than three decades, Winfield served as general counsel of the Associated Press (AP) while a partner in the New York law firm of Rogers and Wells, which became Clifford Chance, LLP. There he defended the AP and other media clients in many hundreds of press freedom cases in the United States and abroad. Winfield’s articles on freedom of expression have appeared in the <i>Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law</i>, <i>Communications Lawyer</i> and other legal publications.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 11pt">David McCraw</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 11pt"> is vice president and assistant general counsel of The New York Times Company, where he is responsible for litigation and for providing legal counsel to the newsrooms of <i>the Times</i>, <i>The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune</i>, and the company's other 15 newspapers as well as its Web sites. McCraw serves as lead legal counsel in <i>the Times</i>'s freedom-of-information litigation and has represented the newspaper in FOI lawsuits dealing with the U.S. government's secret program to tap phone calls without warrants, the City of New York's emergency response on September 11, and the U.S. government's database of unsafe workplaces. He previously served as deputy general counsel of The New York Daily News and a litigation associate at Clifford Chance and Rogers & Wells. He has lectured on U.S. press law in Jordan, Yemen, Peru, and several Eastern European nations.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Ali Ashal </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> is a member of parliament from the Islah Party.. He is head of public relations and advocacy for the Yemeni Parliamentarians Against Corruption and a member of the Oil and Development Committee. He has served in parliament since 1999. Ashal submitted the access to information bill to parliament.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Salem Bintalib is a former member of parliament from the Islah Party and is now a counselor to the president of the parliament. He is a counselor to the Islah Party and head of research and study. He has conducted research on laws, agreements and loans for Yemen and is a central figure in the effort to pass an access to information law. He is also the executive manager of the Yemeni Parliamentarians Against Corruption (YemenPAC).</span></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">RSVP (acceptances only)</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> with name and affiliation <strong><span style="font-weight: normal">by </span>Monday, October 26</strong></span></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Greater media freedom and access to information is a cornerstone to good governance and fighting corruption. There are generally accepted common core characteristics of freedom of information laws necessary for them to operate successfully:</span></p>
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<li class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Presumption of openness to public information</span></li>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Most Arab countries do not have a regulatory framework that meets these criteria. Although Jordan established the first access to information law of its kind in the region in 2007, working journalists have been critical of its implementation.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">With support from IREX and the Middle East Partnership Initiative, the International Senior Lawyers Project has been providing assistance to parliamentarians and civil society activists throughout the Gulf region to support their efforts to develop freedom of information laws and increase transparency and accountability in their societies. </span></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Richard N. Winfield </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">serves of counsel to Clifford Chance US, LLP and leads the media law reform projects of the International Senior Lawyers Program, which he co-founded in 2000. Since 2002 he has taught courses in comparative mass media law and American mass media law and Internet law at Columbia Law School and Fordham University in New York City . Since 2006 he has served as Chairman of the World Press Freedom Committee. For more than three decades, Winfield served as general counsel of the Associated Press (AP) while a partner in the New York law firm of Rogers and Wells, which became Clifford Chance, LLP. There he defended the AP and other media clients in many hundreds of press freedom cases in the United States and abroad. Winfield’s articles on freedom of expression have appeared in the <i>Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law</i>, <i>Communications Lawyer</i> and other legal publications.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 11pt">David McCraw</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 11pt"> is vice president and assistant general counsel of The New York Times Company, where he is responsible for litigation and for providing legal counsel to the newsrooms of <i>the Times</i>, <i>The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune</i>, and the company's other 15 newspapers as well as its Web sites. McCraw serves as lead legal counsel in <i>the Times</i>'s freedom-of-information litigation and has represented the newspaper in FOI lawsuits dealing with the U.S. government's secret program to tap phone calls without warrants, the City of New York's emergency response on September 11, and the U.S. government's database of unsafe workplaces. He previously served as deputy general counsel of The New York Daily News and a litigation associate at Clifford Chance and Rogers & Wells. He has lectured on U.S. press law in Jordan, Yemen, Peru, and several Eastern European nations.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Ali Ashal </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> is a member of parliament from the Islah Party.. He is head of public relations and advocacy for the Yemeni Parliamentarians Against Corruption and a member of the Oil and Development Committee. He has served in parliament since 1999. Ashal submitted the access to information bill to parliament.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Sakhar Al Wageh </span></b></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Sakhar Al Wageh is an independent member of parliament and head of the Yemeni Parliamentarians Against Corruption. He graduated from Sanaa University with a degree in law and Sharia. He has been an MP since 1993. He is a member of the Oil and Development Committee and has major roles in countering corruption.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Salem Bintalib (tentative)</span></b></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Salem Bintalib is a former member of parliament from the Islah Party and is now a counselor to the president of the parliament. He is a counselor to the Islah Party and head of research and study. He has conducted research on laws, agreements and loans for Yemen and is a central figure in the effort to pass an access to information law. He is also the executive manager of the Yemeni Parliamentarians Against Corruption (YemenPAC).</span></p>
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<p class="ecxecxecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1pt"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; background: #d9d9d9; font-size: 14pt">NOTE: This discussion will be held at <u>IREX main offices</u> at 2121 K Street, N.W., Suite 700 <strong>Washington, DC</strong> <strong>20037. <u>It is NOT at CIMA/NED</u></strong></span></b></p>
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