Dear All Iraqi Journalists Rights Defense Association Technical Political paper/ The Right to Get the Information presented to Iraqi Parliament 1. Enhancement of transparency concept at all governmental establishments and organs through exposing all information and documents, as a base to be endorsed by the Iraqi Parliamentary legislation that will not contravene with the directives of the executive authorities as well as abrogating all legislations issued before 2003 that contravene with the right to get the information. 2. Preparation of administrative systems at all Iraqi establishments and organs that will fit the Right to Get the Information Law, building vocational cadres that believe in the right to have access to the information as a human right. There is an international obligation on Iraq, obliging it to legislate a law on the right to get the information. 3. Finding a quarterly evaluation that will gauge the limits of governmental cooperation in providing the information to all people, in addition to gauge the implementation of the responsible officials according to this quarterly evaluation, provided that the media organs and civil society organizations will be basic partners in the evaluation process. 4. Abrogate the concept of "the information for who will need it" from all governmental establishments, building up open-minded organs and developing governmental procedures to guarantee the flow of the information to all people. 5. All official meetings should be open for the media, civil society organs and interested people in a transparent way. 6. Hiding the information by officials shall be a major violation of human rights. 7. Prevent the courts from hearing charges against journalists and media organs for publishing any information or document. 8. Creation of certain mechanism to deal with different media organs in fields of providing the information, facilitating access by press identity card, without official correspondence and complicated routine. 9. Journalists should be provided with all facilitates to cover news and events, getting the information particularly in crises and obliging all media offices at the governmental establishments and organs to provide the information, news, reports and press releases, as well as facilitating entry of trials and continuously visiting prisons . 10. Oblige all official organs to provide electronic sites to publish their statements, documents and other details. None publishing such news should be an avowed violation. 11. Oblige media to publish all contracts and bids' sessions for the projects, provided should be in a transparent way. 12. Enhance the relation among governmental organs, media and civil society organizations in a manner that will serve the right to get the information smoothly and realistically. Iibrahim alsraey Dirctor Iraqi Journalists Rights Defense Association www.ijrda.org alsra...@ijrda.org al_sra...@yahoo.com 07706246249 07901739832 Iraq Baghdad, Rasheed Street, Near Jamahiriya Bridge, Al-Marjan Bld.
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