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RTI Rating

Helen Darbishire2020-02-14T12:38:36+01:00

World's First Rating of Right to Information: 89 Countries Ranked www.RTI-Rating.org 28 September 2011 - On International Right to Know Day, Access Info Europe and the Centre for Law and Democracy launched the first detailed analysis of the legal framework for the right to information (RTI) in 89 countries around the world. The findings of the RTI Rating show that there is a significant variety in the quality of the legal framework, with scores out of a maximum possible 150 ranging from 39 (Austria, one of 30 countries currently pending final review by national experts) to 135 (Serbia). The current

RTI RatingHelen Darbishire2020-02-14T12:38:36+01:00

Global Monitoring Finds Widespread Violations of Right to Information

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:29+01:00

4 October 2011, Ottawa – The largest global monitoring of the right of access to information in practice, the Ask Your Government! 6 Question Campaign has found widespread violations of the right to information with only 1 in 4 requests resulting in provision of full information. 480 requests for budget information were submitted in 80 countries by a global network of civil society organisations. No information at all was provided in response to over half of the requests and 38% of the requests elicited no response from the government body to which the request was sent (mute refusals). The poor

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International Conference on the Right to Information 2011 in Cyprus

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:29+01:00

International Conference on the Right of Access to Information in Cyprus 21st-22nd November 2011 Report and Recommendations

International Conference on the Right to Information 2011 in CyprusHelen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:29+01:00

Anti-Corruption Transparency Monitoring Methodology

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:06:04+01:00

The Access Info Europe “Anti-Corruption Transparency Monitoring Methodology” is designed for anyone wanting to assess levels of transparency in the fields of corruption prevention and integrity promotion. Being transparent implies that governments make available, either at their own initiative or in response to access to information requests, certain classes of information which are essential for evaluating how public power is being exercised and how public funds are being spent. The Anti-Corruption Transparency Monitoring Methodology is a practical guide which can be used by civil society, journalists, academics and others to evaluate whether the key information needed to prevent and/or identify

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Notes to Editor Reprieve

Helen Darbishire2020-02-14T12:47:26+01:00

Reprieve calls on Lithuania to re-open ‘torture site’ inquiry after discovering suspicious flight into Vilnius Notes to Editors: The role of European states in facilitating secret prison operations by the CIA was first revealed in 2005. Poland and Romania were named at this time as countries where the US had maintained secret prisons, while a third European country remained unidentified. In 2009, US-based ABC news published a series of articles which described a detention site in Lithuania, outside Vilnius, according to the testimony of former CIA officials. Lithuania responded to these allegations with a short parliamentary inquiry, completed 22 Dec.

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Lithuania Torture Site Inquiry

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:30+01:00

Reprieve calls on Lithuania to re-open ‘torture site’ inquiry after discovering suspicious flight into Vilnius Vilnius, 29 September – Legal action charity Reprieve is demanding that Lithuanian authorities revive their failed inquiry into CIA ‘black sites’ after a Freedom of Information request – made in conjunction with Access Info Europe – uncovered a mysterious flight into the country’s capital during the relevant period. The flight, which was either not noticed or not revealed by Lithuania’s two official inquiries into local rendition complicity, demonstrates the inadequacy of previous attempts to get to the bottom of damaging allegations that have been gathering

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Closer Every Day to an Access to Information law in Spain?

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:30+01:00

Madrid 28 September 2011 – Today Access Info Europe and the Coalición Pro Acceso will hold a round table to celebrate International Right to Know Day with members of four Spanish political parties to discuss their proposals for transparency in the next legislative period. Spain’s two major political parties, the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), currently in government, and the Popular Party (PP), have both drafted proposed transparency laws yet neither of the drafts meet with the 10 basic principles for the law established by the Spanish civil society platform, the Coalición Pro Acceso.

Closer Every Day to an Access to Information law in Spain?Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:30+01:00

AsktheEU.org launch

Helen Darbishire2019-10-25T12:29:03+02:00

AsktheEU.org: New one-stop portal makes requests for EU documents easy Brussels/Madrid, Wednesday 28 September 2011 – On 28 September 2011, the 9th International Right to Know Day, pro-transparency human rights group Access Info Europe will be unveiling the AsktheEU.org web portal by which the public can ask for information from EU bodies. AsktheEU.org is a designed to radically simplify the process by which the public puts requests to European Union bodies: an email is sent from the website to the relevant EU body. All requests sent via AsktheEU.org and the responses are instantly made public. Requesters will have the opportunity

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Court Case New Players

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:30+01:00

Legal battle over EU transparency gathers pace 26 September 2011 - Three new players have joined the legal battle over the future of transparency of the Council of the European Union, to be decided by the European Court of Justice (second instance). The Czech Republic and Spain have announced they will join Greece and the UK in supporting the Council's fight to keep the names of Member States making legislative proposals secret. Access Info together with the UK NGOs including the Open Rights Group, the Campaign for Freedom of Information, and Unlock Democracy will use International Right to Know Day

Court Case New PlayersHelen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:30+01:00

UK transparency at home vs Brussels case

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:30+01:00

UK promises transparency at home whilst fighting it in Brussels Number 10 Downing Street, Transparency Portal 9 September 2011: Despite domestic efforts to open up government, the UK has taken a stance against transparency in Brussels by being party to a legal battle at the European Court of Justice which if successful would limit public access to documents about future laws. As much as 50% of national legislation is now influenced by European Union rules. The pro-transparency organisation Access Info Europe won a case in March 2011 for access to legislative documents, but the Council of the European Union is

UK transparency at home vs Brussels caseHelen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:13:30+01:00