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6 December 2013
Canadian Commissioner Says Controls Needed for IM
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FOIA Reform Featured in New U.S. OGP Action Plan
5 December 2013
Swedish Parliament Passes Amendments to Access Law
4 December 2013
Angola FOI Law Found Wanting in AFIC Analysis
2 December 2013
OGP to Skip 2014 Summit, According to SC Minutes
ifti watch
22 November 2013
Spotlight on Trade Talks After WikiLeaks Disclosure
7 October 2013
Green Climate Fund Urged to Fix Draft Information Plan
15 September 2013
Brazil Still Considering Release of Article IV Report
25 July 2013
World Bank to Disclose More on Its Contracts
22 July 2013
IMF Issues Modified Transparency Policy
latest features
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2 December 2013
Peru’s New Cybercrime Law Undermines Transparency Legislation
By Milagros Salazar This article was first published by Inter Press Service (Spanish version). LIMA, Nov 27 2013 (IPS) – A new law against cybercrime that restricts the use of data and freedom of information in Peru clashes with earlier legislation, on transparency, which represented a major stride forward in citizen rights. The advances made […]
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29 November 2013
Irish FOI bill concerns must be tackled
By Maeve McDonagh McDonagh is Professor of Law at UCC. She is also the author of Freedom of Information Law 2nd ed This article was originally published Nov. 25 in the Irish Examiner. The Freedom of Information Bill 2013 currently at committee stage in the Oireachtas is to be welcomed in terms of its reversal […]
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26 November 2013
RTI: The Promise and the Problems
By Yek Raj Pathak The author is senior editor at National News Agency. This article was first published in Republica. Right to Information Sangam Biswakarma of Hetauda got just 42 marks in mathematics in his SLC exams. He was not satisfied. He was confident that he should get at least 90 in this paper. His […]
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12 November 2013
Killing Freedom of Information in Ireland
By Gavin Sheridan The article appeared on The Story blog, where comments are accruing. We’ve had sight of new amendments to the FOI Bill 2013 proposed by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We will be blunt: if passed, Freedom of Information is dead. TheStory.ie will, in all likelihood, cease all FOI requests. And […]
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11 November 2013
Sierra Leone: FOI is One Thing, Freedom of Press Another
By Amanda Vragovich Vragovich is the Assistant Program Officer for West Africa at the National Endowment for Democracy. This article appeared Nov. 7 in ThinkAfricaPress. On 31 October, after ten years of civil society activism, President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone signed into law the Right to Access Information Bill. The long-awaited freedom of […]
