Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman said widespread corruption was among the most important reasons for sparking the Arab Spring, noting that easy access to information is vital for anticorruption.

In her speech today at the "One Young World Summit held in Colombia’s capital, Bogota, during the period from 4-7 October, Karman pointed out the revolution in Yemen broke out above all against corruption.  

To tackle corruption, strong laws and institutions are urgently needed, with a goal to put an end to corruption, stressing that people should open their eyes and put officials under the microscope.

The Arab Spring emerged as an urgent need to create democratic states free of corruption, dictatorship and conflicts, she explained.

"We are fighting for freedom, democracy, peace and anticorruption," Karman said, adding that the Arab Spring will never stop until corruption is uprooted. 

Mrs. Tawakkol Karman called on multinationals to end their partnership with corrupt governments that loot “oil, gold and natural resources of peoples.”