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		<title>Reception Lukewarm for ANC Compromises on Secrecy Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/reception-lukewarm-for-anc-compromises-on-secrecy-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/reception-lukewarm-for-anc-compromises-on-secrecy-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ruling African National Congress in South Africa has proposed modifications to the controversial Protection of State Information Bill, but critics say they do not go far enough.
The Right2Know Coalition that opposes the “secrecy bill” on May 11 called&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Budget Disclosures Still Considered Inadequate</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/chinese-budget-disclosures-still-considered-inadequate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/chinese-budget-disclosures-still-considered-inadequate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China is disclosing more information about its budget, but “the data being released is still too vague to satisfy the taxpayers&#8217; demands,” according to a May 14 article in the China Daily by  Zhao Yinan.
“So far, 92 out of&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Renewed Effort to Bring Up RTI Bill in Sri Lanka Blocked</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/renewed-effort-to-bring-up-rti-bill-in-sri-lanka-blocked/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/renewed-effort-to-bring-up-rti-bill-in-sri-lanka-blocked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ruling party in Sri Lanka has blocked an effort by the main opposition party to bring up right to information legislation, according to media reports.
The United National Party presented its RTI proposal to the Speaker of Parliament, but&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Folk Songs Explain the RTI Law in Bangladesh</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/folk-songs-explain-the-rti-law-in-bangladesh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/folk-songs-explain-the-rti-law-in-bangladesh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sung to the tunes of traditional folk songs, new lyrics are being used to explain the right to information law in Bangladesh.
Days of secrecy are long gone,
Public officials are now under obligation,
To ensure people’s right to information,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Access to Public Information in Brazil: What Will Change With Law No. 12.527/2011?</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/access-to-public-information-in-brazil-what-will-change-with-law-no-12-5272011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/access-to-public-information-in-brazil-what-will-change-with-law-no-12-5272011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marcelo Sarkis
Sarkis is a lawyer, Institutional and Governmental Affairs at ALCÂNTARA&#38;HOLSTAD International Consultancy, Brasília &#8211; Brazil. www.alcantaraholstad.com
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>EU Ministers Threaten Access to Information</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/eu-ministers-threaten-access-to-information/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/eu-ministers-threaten-access-to-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Helen Darbishire
Darbishire is Executive Director of Access Info Europe.
The threat that the right of access to information from European Union bodies will be reduced moved a step closer to reality May 10 when the 27 Member States&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Tunisia Publishes Road Map To Implement FOI Directive</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/tunisia-publishes-road-map-to-implement-foi-directive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/tunisia-publishes-road-map-to-implement-foi-directive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tunisia’s Office of the Prime Ministry has published an implementation guide for Decree Law 41 – a directive passed last May on access to governmental documents, according to media reports (Tunisia Live).
FreedomInfo.org has confirmed the development, but contacts did&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Ghana Coalition Protests Low Priority Given FOI Legislation</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/ghana-coalition-protests-low-priority-given-foi-legislation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/ghana-coalition-protests-low-priority-given-foi-legislation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 17:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coalition on Right to Information in Ghana May 11 issued a statement “to express its disappointment” that the majority leader of Parliament, Cletus Avoka, said May 7 that “the Right to Information Bill is not a priority for Parliament.”&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>UK Protection of Freedoms Act Makes Changes in FOI</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/uk-protection-of-freedoms-act-makes-changes-in-foi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/uk-protection-of-freedoms-act-makes-changes-in-foi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Gibbons
This article first appeared in FOIManUK on May 10, Gibbon’s blog, and is reprinted with permission.
The Protection of Freedoms Act came into force on 1 May 2012. Amongst its many implications are those for the Freedom&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Stock of OGP</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/taking-stock-of-ogp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/taking-stock-of-ogp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[open government partnership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Abhinav Bahl
Bahl works for Global Integrity, which published this article May 9.
The Open Government Partnership is officially afoot with the Articles of Governance formally approved and adopted at the first annual meeting in Brasilia last month. With&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Retired Officials Dominate Indian State Commissions</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/retired-officials-dominate-indian-state-commissions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/retired-officials-dominate-indian-state-commissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 20:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Indian state information commissioners are retired civil servants and many posts are vacant, according to fact-filled critical report by the Access to Information Programme of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, based in New Delhi.
Also, less than half of&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Liberia Announces Intention to Appoint FOI Commissioner</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/liberia-announces-intention-to-appoint-foi-commissioner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/liberia-announces-intention-to-appoint-foi-commissioner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 17:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced in a May 3 statement that she will “very soon” appoint the country’s first information commissioner.
The position was created by the FOI passed in October of 201o, but has not been filled
The&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>FOI Notes: Commentary, Reports, Book, Handbook</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/foi-notes-commentary-reports-book-handbook/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/foi-notes-commentary-reports-book-handbook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 17:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOI/Private Sector: Applying FOI to the private sector, a proposal by British author George Monbiot in The Guardian.
Open Data: A call for session and talk proposals for the International Open Government Data Conference 2012 to be held on July&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Malta to Institute FOA Law in September, Minister Says</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/malta-to-institute-foa-law-in-september-minister-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/malta-to-institute-foa-law-in-september-minister-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 01:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malta’s freedom of information law will come into full force Sept. 1, the government has announced.
The law was enacted more than three years ago, but the ability to make requests has been stymied.
Justice Minister Chris Said on May&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Cambodians Want Right to Information Study Says</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/cambodians-wants-right-to-information-study-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/cambodians-wants-right-to-information-study-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 03:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>toby</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[transparency research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than 80 percent of Cambodians want the right to access government information and believe that government, including elected bodies, should publish national budget and spending information, according to a new survey by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media.
Cambodia&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>More Fees, Discretion to Refuse FOI Requests Recommended In Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/more-fees-discretion-to-refuse-foi-requests-recommended-in-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/more-fees-discretion-to-refuse-foi-requests-recommended-in-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>toby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Avinesh Chand and Barry Dunphy
This article appeared April 26 on the blog of the Australian Clayton Utz law firm and is reprinted with permission.
Key Points: Agencies could have greater discretion to refuse freedom of information requests, and&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Yemeni Parliament Passes Right to Information Law</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/yemeni-parliament-passes-right-to-information-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/yemeni-parliament-passes-right-to-information-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 21:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yemen’s parliament April 24 approved a right to information bill.
 The legislation was first presented in 2008 by MP Ali Hussein Ashaal, of the Islah party, according to a Yemen Times article. “This was followed by another draft presented by&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Angry Parliamentarian Vows to Block Sierra Leone FOI Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/angry-parliamentarian-vows-to-block-sierra-leone-foi-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/angry-parliamentarian-vows-to-block-sierra-leone-foi-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 21:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only days after a top Sierra Leone government official said the freedom of information bill would pass during the week of May 7, a key legislator, angered by journalists, said it won’t.
The strong statement by Majority Leader of Parliament,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Trip to London Next Step for Ghana FOI Bill?</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/trip-to-london-next-step-for-ghana-foi-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/trip-to-london-next-step-for-ghana-foi-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 20:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The perplexing pace of inaction on freedom of information legislation in Ghana is continuing.
Positive signs include a top government official pledging action and reports from activists who say members of Parliament told them the bill will come up this&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Boosts FOI as Criteria for Receiving Foreign Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/u-s-boosts-foi-as-criteria-for-receiving-foreign-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/u-s-boosts-foi-as-criteria-for-receiving-foreign-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 19:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States has revised an indicator used to decide which countries qualify for foreign aid, somewhat elevating the importance of freedom of information and unfettered internet access.
The changes were made last year by the Millenium Challenge Corporation, which&#8230;]]></description>
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