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15 January 2015
EIB Makes Limited Changes in Second Draft of Policy
8 January 2015
EU Ombudsman Seeks More Trade Talk Transparency
18 December 2014
EU Ombudsman Urges EIB to Release Zambian Mine Report
11 December 2014
UNEP Seeks Public Comments On Pilot Phase Access Policy
20 November 2014
Secrecy Option Proposed for Bank Forest Carbon Fund
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7 January 2015
RTI Case Studies From Pakistan
A report by the Asia Foundation on right to know laws in three Southeast Asian countries. (See FreedomInfo.org report.) The report includes an annex with case studies about the use of the laws. Reprinted below is the section on Pakistan Prime Minister’s Overseas Trips Under the Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002, RTI activist Saleem Iqbal […]
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Case Studies in Use of the RTI law in Nepal
A report by the Asia Foundation on right to know laws in three Southeast Asian countries. (See FreedomInfo.org report.) The report includes an annex with case studies about the use of the laws. Reprinted below is the section on Nepal. Information in the Public Interest The International Criminal Court (ICC) adjudicates cases of genocide, crimes […]
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Using the RTI Law in Bangladesh
A report by the Asia Foundation on right to know laws in three Southeast Asian countries. (See FreedomInfo.org report.) The report includes an annex with case studies about the use of the laws. Reprinted below is the section on Bangladesh. Applying RTI in the Shrimp Sector Social Activities for the Environment (SAFE), a Bangladesh NGO, […]
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1 January 2015
2014: A Year of Attempts to Strangle the RTI
By Vinita Deshmukh The author is a prize-winning journalist, a consulting editor of Moneylife, an RTI activist and convener of the Pune Metro Jagruti Abhiyaan. The article was published Dec. 31 in Moneylife. Strapline: Political parties defying summons by CIC, a headless information commission and much more meant a low year for this otherwise strong […]
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10 Years of FOI in the UK: Tony, Tension and Turbulence
By Ben Worthy The author is a Lecturer in Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. It was first posted Dec. 28 on his blog OpenDataStudy. The 10th anniversary was widely noted elsewhere, including in an official note by Justice Minister Simon Hughes saying that more than 400,000 requests have been made under FOI laws in […]
