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Issue No: 68
E - Alert
Issue Date: 16-05-2013
India Right to Information activist fights social boycott in Himachal
gulfnews.com
Tissa, Himachal Pradesh: When a right to information (RTI) activist in
Himachal Pradesh exposed misuse of public funds some years back, he did not
expect that his fight for truth would expose him and his family to threats and
social boycott.
Hospitals 'not reporting hundreds of blundering doctors'
Telegraph.co.uk
Medical negligence consultant Ann Harris used the Freedom of Information
Act to ask England's 163 NHS trusts how many doctors had two or more complaints
made against them in the past five years, and how many had been reported to the
GMC. The 54 ...
'Poor denied free treatment at major private hospitals'
The New Indian Express
Four hundred Right To Information applications and three years later, it
has been found that 20 major hospitals in the city have denied free treatment
to white ration card holders and violated the memorandum of understanding they
signed with the state ...
Minister dismisses criticism of ambulance wait times
ABC Online
The State Opposition has obtained figures through Freedom of Information
that show almost 300 people waited over 45 minutes for an ambulance last year.
In some cases it was an hour. Labor's health spokesman Andrew McDonald says the
average waiting ...
President reiterates call for protection of journalists; freedom of ...
Associated Press of Pakistan
The President on the eve of the Press Freedom Day (May 3) also called for
the adoption of an appropriate and effective Freedom of Information
legislation. The President in his message reiterated his commitment to the
freedom of media with ...
Over 6500 Indians in jails in 112 foreign countries
Business Standard
Over 6,500 Indian nationals are jailed in foreign countries, with a
majority of them in the Gulf countries of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and United Arab
Emirates, the answer to a Right to Information (RTI) application has revealed.
In reply to a Right to ...
Women make up less than a quarter of RTE's highest earners
Irish Independent
Of the 80 staff paid more than €100,000 just 19 are women, new figures
released under Freedom of Information have shown. And the figures reveal men
dominate in all higher-paid jobs, with more women filling low-paid roles. Last
month the Irish ...
Criticism of PSC is 'ill-informed'
Great Falls Tribune
The Montana Freedom of Information Act is very straight-forward; any
document that is in the possession of a government agency is available for
scrutiny by the public unless the owner of the document is granted a protective
order to seal the ...
West Suffolk: Requests for information from hospital have tripled in five
years
East Anglian Daily Times
DEALING with requests under the Freedom of Information Act has cost a
hospital up to nearly £300,000 in the last decade
New Jakarta Declaration Aims to Strengthen Rights to Environmental
Information ...
World Resources Institute
Last week, representatives from China, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, the
Philippines, and Thailand released the Jakarta Declaration for Strengthening
the Right to Environmental Information for People and the Environment. The
Declaration urges governments ...
Hundreds of patients affected by NHS mistakes
The Independent
Freedom of information requests revealed 322 cases of “foreign objects”
left inside patients' bodies in English hospitals in the past four years.
Another 214 patients had surgery on the wrong body part, 73 had feeding tubes
inserted into lungs, and 58 ...
7/11 Mumbai blasts: Accused uses RTI to show witnesses were lying
Firstpost
Accused Ethesham Siddiqui, during his examination by the defence lawyers,
told the special MCOCA court yesterday here that he learnt through Right to
Information Act that one of the prosecution witnesses was facing three criminal
cases. Image for ...
New group to offer legal aid to Indian detainees, especially Muslims
Khabar Southeast Asia
Through the Right to Information Act (RTI), the organisation will seek
detailed information about undertrials – detainees whose cases have not been
resolved – and convicts languishing in jails. The group will also seek bail for
those with false charges ...
Minister accused of wrongly blocking publication of Prince Charles letters
The Guardian
The government has resisted disclosing the letters since 2005, when the
Guardian lodged a freedom of information request to see his correspondence with
ministers over a seven-month period. The paper won a key victory last September
when three judges ...
Hungary: Government Limits FOIA Transparency Law
Global Voices Online
In an unexpected move last week, Parliamentarians in Hungary took action
to change the country's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in an effort to limit
the scope of data accessible to the public under the law. The Freedom of
Information Act, known as ...
Kannada films get the third highest cuts
Times of India
Information provided by the CBFC under the Right To Information Act to
Pune-based activist Vihar Druve shows that since 2008, the maximum cuts were
imposed on Tamil films followed by Telugu, Kannada and Hindi films. This
implies that south films are ...
Six children went missing every day from Mumbai in last 3 years
Times of India
MUMBAI: Nearly six children on average went missing from Mumbai every day
of the last three years and many of them are yet to be traced, a Right to
Information (RTI) query has revealed. The Mumbai police recorded 6,345 cases of
missing children (aged ...
A quarter of NHS staff in Scotland claim they have been bullied
Deadline News
New figures, released under Freedom of Information, reveal that thousands
of health staff, including nurses and doctors, report cases of intimidation and
harassment every year. 22.5% of NHS workers who took part in a confidential
health board survey ...
Freedom of Information Law Faces First Legal Test
AllAfrica.com
The Center for Media Studies and Peace Building (CEMESP) has filed a writ
of mandamus with the Supreme Court of Liberia to compel the Independent
Information Commission to conduct a hearing on its complaint against the
Liberia Anti Corruption ...
SERVICE BOOK A PUBLIC DOCUMENT UNDER RTI: SIC
GreaterKashmir.com
Jammu, May 14: In an important decision, the State Information Commission
has ruled that Service Book of a government employee is a public document and
every citizen has a right to get access to it. “Service details of public
servants available in the ...
Some public bodies failing on FOI requests - O'Reilly
Irish Times
Some public bodies are failing to recognise that responding to Freedom of
Information requests is a statutory function that should be afforded as much
weight as any other work, Information Commissioner Emily O'Reilly has said. In
her office's annual ...
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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