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Right to Information
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Around the World
Issue No: 62
E - Alert
Issue Date: 07-03-2013
Access denied: Legislation on right to information remains unlikely
The Express Tribune
With only a few weeks left before the provincial government's tenure
ends, legislation on the right to information (RTI) is unlikely to see the
light of day – even if the last session of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P)
Assembly is held shortly. At the ...
Legislation on right to information: CRTI calls to give priority in
manifesto
Business Recorder (blog)
The Coalition on Right to Information (CRTI), an 18-member amalgamation
of civil society organisations, passed on a declaration on Wednesday called
upon all the political parties for giving priority to legislation on right to
information in their ...
Freedom of Information Takes Another Hit in the United States
CounterPunch
INSIDE ALEXANDER COCKBURN'S FBI FILE — In the premier issue of the new
28-page CounterPunch magazine, David Price, a historian of the CIA and other
intelligences agencies, reveals the explosive contents of the FBI's file on
Alexander Cockburn and ...
Ghana Parliament told to amend Right to Information Bill to meet world
standards
Ghana Business News
Ms Mina Mensah, CHRI Africa Regional Coordinator told the Ghana News
Agency in an interview that the a right to information law is a key element to
development since it enables citizens to access information held by Government
bodies, be it information ...
El Paso City Council proposed freedom of information ordinance draws fire
El Paso Times
A proposed city ordinance that attempts to define what information about
official business should be made available to the public is drawing criticism
from local residents and lawyers across the state. The proposed ordinance would
define what is ...
Freedom of information: Draft law 'too restrictive'
The Express Tribune
The draft freedom of information law allows the government and its
agencies to classify anything they want to be exempt from being made public,
without explanation as to why they are doing so. “What is the procedure to
declare something secret? And ...
NAMA loses appeal over Freedom of Information request
Irish Independent
THE High Court has today dismissed an appeal by the National Assets
Management Agency against a ruling by the Commissioner for Environmental
Information it is a public authority and therefore subject to freedom of
information requests.
Ban exposes flimsy right to information
The Citizen Daily
Mwanza. The recent attempt by the corridors of powers to ban live
coverage of the National Assembly debates is one of the indicators of the
fragile right to information in Tanzania. The National Assembly Clerk, Dr
Thomas Kashilila, found himself being ...
Freedom of Information Bill will be presented to Parliament in June-Sakeni
Lusaka Times
Government says the Freedom of Information Bill (FOI) will be presented
to Parliament in the third session of the eleventh national assembly in June
this year. Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Kennedy Sakeni said
in an interview yesterday ...
Newspaper denied access Freedom of Information Act drafting documents
The Copenhagen Post
The new freedom of information law, offentlighedslov, is being voted on
in parliament today, but opposition parties and the media have been left in the
dark as to how the new more restrictive law ended up finding the backing of
parliament's five ...
Figures obtained under Freedom of Information Act reveal white applicants
up ...
The Guardian
Figures for applications to the university in 2010 and 2011, obtained by
the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act, revealed that 25.7% of white
applicants received an offer to attend the university, compared with 17.2% of
students from ethnic ...
Ornge to be subject to freedom of information law
CP24 Toronto's Breaking News
TORONTO -- The province's troubled Ornge air ambulance system will be
subject to Ontario's freedom of information law by the fall. Health Minister
Deb Matthews has re-introduced legislation that the government says will boost
oversight of the ...
Zahid Abdullah - Programme Manager
Transparency and Right to Information Program
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Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives, Pakistan (CPDI-Pakistan)
Tel: 051-2101594; 4319430; 2108287
URL: www.cpdi-pakistan.org
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