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27 January 2012
Sierra Leone Portal No Substitute for FOI Law, Advocates Say
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Kenyan Draft FOI Bill Subject to More Review
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FOI Notes: Open Data, Climate Change, FOI Survey
20 January 2012
OGP Seeks Input on Topics, Side Meetings for April
19 January 2012
Hearings on South African Secrecy Bill to Start
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27 January 2012
Ruling Underscores Need for RTI Bill in Pakistan
By Ikramul Hag and Huzaima Bukhari
The writers are lawyers and visiting professors at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. This article first appeared Jan 17 in The News, and is reprinted by permission of the authors.
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13 January 2012
Argentina: Opening Up the Governance of the Judiciary
By Natalia Torres
Torres is Senior Researcher at the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) in Argentina. See this article Spanish.
At the end of December 1999 the National Congress approved the National Law… -
Argentina: abriendo el gobierno de la justicia
Por Natalia Torres
Investigadora Principal del CELE, Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión y Acceso a la Información (See this article in English.)
A fines de diciembre de 1999 el Congreso de la Nación aprobó la Ley Nacional de Ética… -
20 December 2011
What’s Ailing RTI? Resource Issues Plague Indian Law
By Shonali Ghosal
Ghosal is a correspondent with Tehelka magazine, based in New Delhi, which published this article in its Dec. 24 edition. Following is an interview with Shailesh Gandhi, a Central Information Commissioner. (Reprinted with permission.)
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16 November 2011
Japan: Greater Openness or Greater Secrecy?
By Lawrence Repeta
Repeta is a professor of law, Meiji University, Japan, and a member of the board of directors of Information Clearinghouse Japan (the leading Japanese NGO advocating and monitoring Japan’s information access laws)
The Japan Times recently carried an editorial…
