Scotland
RTI Behind Changing Behavior of Democracy in India
Public Technology.net
Daren Fitzhenry has been Scotland’s Information Commissioner for a little over two years, a time during which freedom of information (FoI) has been an unusually hot topic…
Pakistan
RTI commission’s annual budget held up at Finance Ministry for the last six months
Business Recorder
Zahid Abdullah is no stranger to Right to Information. As a civil society activist, he is a renowned RTI advocate and a champion of human rights…
India
Locus And RTI: to be, or not to be?
Live Law
Recently Chief Justice S. A. Bobde had criticised how the concept of locus standi being conspicuous only by its absence in the RTI law and how the Act…
Philippines
Freedom of Information champion
Manila Standard
With at least 99-percent outstanding performance rating in compliance and response in the electronic freedom of information portal…
USA
Why policymakers must act to preserve information freedom at home and abroad
Washington Post
Topping the very short list of issues that many Democrats and Republicans can agree upon…
Tunisia
Access to Information: A story of resistance from Tunisia
Transparency International
After the Tunisian Revolution in 2010, the government became much more amenable to the ideas of openness and transparency…
India
Voluntary disclosure will reduce RTI pleas
Times of India
A special workshop for disseminating information about the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005 was organised…
Ghana
Ghana: Implementation of RTI must take off smoothly
All Africa
Ghana has become one of the world’s 125th countries across the world with Right to Information (RTI) law…
Pakistan
Speakers stress importance of RTI law
The Express Tribune
Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Law, Environment, Climate Change and Coastal Development Barrister Murtaza Wahab…
United Kingdom
Metropolitan Police reject freedom of information request over racism reports from football fans
Football.London
Metropolitan Police have rejected a freedom of information request relating to how many incidents of racist abuse in the capital’s football stadiums…
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