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Bibliography of MKSS Writings, Articles and Other Reports

The following documents are available for sale in a CD with the MKSS. To obtain a copy of this CD please contact the MKSS at mkssrajasthan@yahoo.com

  1. From Information to Accountability - Reclaiming Democracy
  2. Survival And Right to Information - Gulam Rasool third memorial lecture by Aruna Roy
  3. Information, Democracy And Ethics - Aruna Roy (12th Shri.B.V.Narayana Reddy Memorial Lecture Feb 1, 2000)
  4. Accounts And Accountability : Theoretical Implication of Right To Information Movement In India - Rob Jenkins & Anne Marie Goets
  5. Chasing A Right (How a sustained movement in a Rajasthan village to obtain information from panchayat-level officials under the law of the land faces seemingly insurmountable hurdles.) - Aruna Roy & Nikhil Dey
  6. Beyond Information: Breaching the Wall of State Inaction: MKSS
  7. The right to information discourse in India - Neelabh Misra
  8. Right to know: Right to decide (The collaborative impact of public hearing)
  9. Chronology of events relating to RTI (12/94-5/99)
  10. Demand transparency, assert sovereignty.
  11. Memorandum from MKSS and NCPRI, submitted to RTI Committee (GOR), April 12, 1999.
  12. MKSS (Presentation based on grassroots experience and the perspective of people's struggle to access information)
  13. The RTI and Corruption Movement in Maharashtra.
  14. (A) The URMUL Network Meet on Advocacy, Transparency and RTI.
    (B) RTI: GOR sets up a Committee of Bureaucats.
  15. Articles published in Vidura, 2002
  16. Beawar Convention(4th to 6th April 2001) Beawar Statement (Draft): Deepening Democracy Through the Right To Information
  17. MKSS, Public Hearing: Why and How
  18. Calendar of Events, relating to the implementation of the Panchayati Raj Rules and the mockery of the spirit of the Right to Information law - Rajasthan 2000
  19. Information about the application and attempts made to get information from Panchayat Janawad, Kumbalgarh, Rajsamand, Rajasthan.
  20. Janawad Jan Sunwai on 3rd April, 2001 - An Overview
  21. Case studies of Janawad Panchayat
  22. Critique of State Government initiated Social Audit Campaign and Public
    Hearings(Jan Sunwais)
  23. A background note for the workshop on: Institutionalising social audit and public vigilance.
  24. MKSS pamphlet: MKSS and The People's Right to Information
  25. NCPRI pamphlet: Demand transparency, assert sovereignty and your will to live.
  26. NCPRI (National Campaign for People's Right to Information) hosts Chomsky: Nov. 5, 2001.
  27. Enforcing transparency and accountability in Panchayat Raj institutions: Review of Government-initiated Jan Sunwais (public hearings) in high spending Panchayats of every Panchayat Samiti - March 11, 2002

 

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Aruna Roy (standing) a founding member of the MKSS addresses the public meeting as part of the Jan Nithi Abhyan in Jaipur. In the background banners of the Akal Sangharsh Samithi (Anti Drought Struggle Campaign), Right to Work Campaign and the Right to Information campaign are displayed.

FEATURES ARCHIVE

30 JANUARY 2008
JAPAN - Tokyo Court: Foreign Ministry's Failure to Provide Documents on 1965 Japan-Korea Normalization Pact Illegal

9 MAY 2007
China Adopts First Nationwide Open Government Information Regulations

28 SEPTEMBER 2006
International Right to Know Day 2006 - Celebrating Freedom of Information Around the World

12 JULY 2006
REPORT: UNDP Seminar Spotlights Complexity of Expanding Right to Know

27 JUNE 2006     
CASE STUDY: Two Steps Forward, One Step Backwards: The Access to Information Campaign in Argentina

22 MARCH 2006     
Freedom of Information Laws Added to the Development Agenda

22 MARCH 2006
freedominfo.org Kicks Off Legislative Transparency Project

16 NOVEMBER 2005
ANALYSIS: How to Measure Openness?
Towards an International Index

28 SEPTEMBER 2005
Freedom of Information Makes Headlines Around the World
International Right to Know Day 2005

9 MAY 2005
REPORT: Article 19 on Freedom of Information in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia

15 APRIL 2005
CASE STUDY: Teaching Institute or Dance Bar?

Putting Local Freedom of Information Legislation to Use in Argentina

7 APRIL 2005
CASE STUDY: FOIA Law Discloses British Farm Subsidies

9 FEBRUARY 2005
CASE STUDY: On-line networking solves potential secrecy problem in Slovakia - elapsed time four hours

30 JUNE 2004
CASE STUDY: The Right to Know is the Right to Live

Profile of a Remarkable Peoples' Movement in India that Links Information to Livelihood

16 JUNE 2004 - UPDATE
CASE STUDY: Bulgaria - The Access to Information Program
Fighting for Transparency during the Democratic Transition

13 APRIL 2004
CASE STUDY: The Transparency Labyrinth in Argentina

14 OCTOBER 2003
CASE STUDY: The Freedom of Information Campaign in Argentina

11 OCTOBER 2003
"The right to know is gaining around the world"
by Thomas Blanton
The International Herald Tribune

5 OCTOBER 2003
REPORT: Fiji Debates Freedom of Information Proposal
Citizens' Group Launches Draft Law

22 SEPTEMBER 2003
REPORT: Freedom of Information in Ireland
Five Years On

8 SEPTEMBER 2003
REPORT: The Birth of the Freedom of Information Act in Japan
Kanagawa 1982

17 JANUARY 2003
CASE STUDY: The Philippines
A Liberal Information Regime Even Without an Information Law

30 SEPTEMBER 2002
CASE STUDY: Secrecy and Openness in the European Union
The Ongoing Struggle for Freedom of Information

27 JULY 2002
CASE STUDY: Japan - Breaking Down the Walls of Secrecy
The Story of the Citizen's Movement for an Information Disclosure Law

17 JULY 2002
REPORT: A Landmark Law Opens Up Post-Apartheid South Africa

9 JULY 2002
REPORT: In Mexico, a New Law Guarantees the Right to Know

5 JULY 2002
ANALYSIS: Japanese Government Information:
New Rules for Access

The 2001 Information Disclosure Law, and a Comparison with the U.S. FOIA

JULY/AUGUST 2002
The World's Right to Know
By Thomas Blanton
Published in Foreign Policy


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