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  • 20 May 2013

    Future of FOI Bill in Philippines Remains Up to Aquino

    By Benjamin Diokno
    Diokno served as Secretary of Budget and Management from 1998 to 2001. He teaches Public Economics at the UP School of Economics. This article first appeared in the Malay Business Insight.
    Is President Aquino afraid of the…

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  • 10 May 2013

    Moldova Not Implementing RTI Law, World Bank Reports

    Little has been done to implement Moldova’s 2000 right to information law, according to a report prepared for the World Bank.
    “After almost a decade, the RTI system has been very inadequately institutionalized,” according to an examination of Moldova that…

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  • 22 April 2013

    Model Access Law for Africa: A Response to Felt Need

    By Gilbert Sendugwa
    Sendugwa is Coordinator & Head of Secretariat, Africa Freedom of Information Centre.  
    The Model Law on Access to Information for Africa recently launched by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) an outcome of felt…

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  • 19 April 2013

    Right to information? You are in queue!

    By Shailesh Gandhi
    Gandhi is a former commissioner at the central information commission. This article is reprinted with permission from GovernanceNow, where it was first run on April 17. “GovernanceNow is a multi-media initiative for participatory reportage and analyses related…

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  • 5 April 2013

    Uganda Access Law Faces Many Challenges, Report Says

    Implementation of Uganda’s law on access to information suffers because of weaknesses in the judicial system and a culture of secrecy, among many other factors, according to a detailed World Bank report.
    The report was written by Anupama Dokeniya, a…

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