Conferencia Inaugural: Transparencia y Buen Gobierno
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:12+01:00Date: 23 October 2012, 7pm-9pm Location: Nova-Innovació Social, Pl. Catalunya, 9, Barcelona,
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Debate público: Propuestas ciudadanas para el control del lobby
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:12+01:00Date: 22 October 2012, 4pm-8pm Location: CIDOB, calle Elisabets, 12, Barcelona
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10º Aniversario del Día Internacional del Derecho a Saber
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:12+01:00Debate sobre la futura ley de transparencia Madrid, 28 de septiembre de 2012 — Ayer el gobierno perdió una extraordinaria oportunidad de poder compartir con la sociedad civil su posición sobre la futura Ley de Transparencia, Acceso a la Información y Buen Gobierno en España porque excusó su asistencia al debate público sobre la ley con motivo de la celebración del 10º Aniversario del Día Internacional del Derecho a Saber. Sí participaron en el evento, organizado por la Coalición Pro Acceso, de la que es miembro Access Info Europe, diputados de otros tres partidos: Meritxell Batet, del PSOE, Irene Lozano,
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Día Internacional del Derecho a Saber – Transparencia y Rendición de Cuentas en los Bancos Internacionales de Desarrollo
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:12+01:00Seminario organizado por el Defensor del pueblo Europeo en colaboración con el Mecanismo de Reclamaciones del Banco Europeo de Inversiones Desde el año 2003, los defensores del Derecho a la Información de todo el mundo celebran el día internacional del derecho a saber. Aproximadamente un tercio de las investigaciones realizadas por la oficina del Defensor del Pueblo Europeo están relacionadas con la falta de transparencia, por lo que el Defensor del pueblo Europeo, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, consciente del problema, ha mostrado su interés en señalar la importancia del Derecho a la Información y, este año, está colaborando con el Banco
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AsktheEU results 2012
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:12+01:00AsktheEU.org | EU Transparency Results 2012 Brussels, 28 September 2012 – In the year running up to 28 September 2012, members of the European public presented a total of 214 requests for documents with European institutions and bodies using the AsktheEU.org request platform. As of 23 September, almost 65% of the 214 requests made using AsktheEU.org resulted in full (37%) or partial (28%) disclosure of documents. In a further 19% of instances (40 requests) the institution responded that it did not hold the information requested, either because the document did not exist or because it was not in that institutions’
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10 years Right to Know Day
Helen Darbishire2020-02-14T11:29:16+01:00Ten years defending and advancing our right to know A reflection by Access Info Europe's founder and Executive Director Helen Darbishire on the achievements of the global freedom of information movement ten years after the day on which International Right to Know Day was created. The band of civil society activists seen here shivering on a misty Bulgarian mountain top on 28 September 2002 had spent the day in Sofia (the city whose name means "knowledge") brainstorming how to advance the right of access to information, including by founding the Freedom of Information Advocates network and coming up with the
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RTI Rating Web Update
Helen Darbishire2020-02-14T12:53:32+01:00Global RTI Rating Website Update Launched www.RTI-Rating.org 28 September 2012, Halifax/Madrid - Today, Access Info Europe (AIE) and the Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD) launched an improved version of the RTI Rating website. The new website contains updated results on all 93 countries with national right to information laws, searchable on various parameters, including total score and score in each category of the RTI Rating. Serbia retains top position in the updated rating, with 135 points out of a possible total of 150, while Austria languishes in bottom place, with 39 points. AIE and CLD first launched the RTI
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10th Right to Know Day
Helen Darbishire2020-02-14T13:42:11+01:0010 years of the Freedom of Information Advocates Network and Right to Know Day Members of the Freedom of Information Advocates Network, a global community of over 200 civil society organisations, will be holding a range of International Right to Know Day activities, including the FOIAnet itself announcing prizes in the right to know photo competition and launching the 10-10-10 Statement on the past decade of advocacy: 10 Successes, 10 Challenges, 10 Goals. Access Info Europe are amoung the active members of the FOIAnet. 10-10-10 Statement (English) (Spanish) (French) (Russian)
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The Poor Transparency Register
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:13+01:00The poor Transparency Register Brussels, 27 September 2012 – The quality of the EU Transparency Register is questionable, with a number of significant blind-spots in relation to the lobbying activities of major corporations, consultancies, law firms and trade associations.- Many of those who are the biggest spenders on EU lobbying according to the register, are in fact very minor players or may not even be lobbying at all; – There appears to be widespread under-reporting by many large lobbying entities; – Law firms continue to evade disclosure; – Many registrants have taken a very lax approach to the accuracy, quantity
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The corporate-dominated EU
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:13+01:00The corporate-dominated EU Brussels, 25 September 2012 – A new report examines the composition of expert and advisory groups for DG Enterprise and Industry. This new research carried out by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) was launched at a joint event with the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB) and the Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour.