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27 Oct 2011

Access Info exige que se ponga fin a las negociaciones a puerta cerrada para combatir la corrupción

2020-02-14T16:17:02+01:00

Marrakech, 27 de octubre de 2011 – Hoy, como participante en las negociaciones de Marrakech de la Conferencia de Estados Parte de la Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra la Corrupción (UNCAC), Acess Info Europe hizo una intervención formal en la sesión plenaria solicitando a los Estados Parte que pongan fin a las discusiones a puerta cerrada en las que se decide cómo se han de aplicar las medidas anticorrupción. La UNCAC es la convención anticorrupción de mayor envergadura a nivel internacional, por lo que la transparencia sobre la implementación de todas las medidas a adoptar es vital para la

Access Info exige que se ponga fin a las negociaciones a puerta cerrada para combatir la corrupción2020-02-14T16:17:02+01:00
25 Oct 2011

Iniciativa «¡Cuenten lo que han hecho!» – Resultados de un estudio piloto

2021-03-04T10:58:02+01:00

 Un estudio global halla una transparencia mínima en los esfuerzos anticorrupción 25 de octubre del 2011: El primer estudio global para evaluar el acceso a la información relativa a la implementación de los tratados anticorrupción ha detectado que la mitad de las preguntas dirigidas a los gobiernos (50%) no son respondidas por la administración. La investigación, realizada por Acces Info Europe y Transparency International, junto a otros socios internacionales, también descubrió que sólo alrededor de una cuarta parte de las preguntas (solo un 26%) presentadas en 20 países además de en la Unión Europea, dieron lugar a información – completa

Iniciativa «¡Cuenten lo que han hecho!» – Resultados de un estudio piloto2021-03-04T10:58:02+01:00
25 Oct 2011

Metodología del Control de Transparencia Anticorrupción

2020-02-14T16:17:08+01:00

Publicada una guía práctica con los resultados completos del control en Croacia Marrakech, 25 Octubre 2011 – Access Info Europe ha publicado hoy una nueva guía sobre el modo de evaluar los niveles de transparencia en áreas de gobierno propensas a la corrupción. La guía se publica junto con los resultados del primer control a gran escala que se ha realizado usando esta metodología en Croacia, dirigido por Transparencia Internacional Croacia. El "Metodología de Control de Transparencia Anticorrupción" se presentó hoy en la Conferencia de la ONU de los Estados Parte a la Convención de las Naciones Unidas Contra la

Metodología del Control de Transparencia Anticorrupción2020-02-14T16:17:08+01:00
13 Oct 2011

Spanish Government Fails on Election Promise to adopt Access Law

2018-11-13T10:13:28+01:00

The Spanish government has conceded that it failed to conquer internal resistance to its draft access to infomation law in time to meet the 2008 electoral promises to adopt a law during this legislatrure; elections are scheduled in Spain for 20 November 2011. Speaking with representatives of the NGO platform, the Coalición Pro Acceso on 10 October 2011, Spain’s Minister of the Presidency regretted the delays. The Coalition members gave feedback on the draft approved and made public by the Spanish Cabinet on 29 July 2011, including the need to have the right to information apply to all information and

Spanish Government Fails on Election Promise to adopt Access Law2018-11-13T10:13:28+01:00
13 Oct 2011

Access Info Europe holds joint seminar on Data Journalism in Madrid.

2018-11-13T10:13:29+01:00

Madrid, 13 October 2011 - You are invited to participate in the second Data Journalism meeting on 20 October at 17 hrs at Medialab Prado, Madrid. The high level speakers are of Xaquín González Veira (The New York Times), Annamarie Cumiskey (Bureau of Investigative Journalism), Mar Cabra (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - ICIJ) and David Cabo (Pro Bono Publico). Experts from the United States and UK will discuss with leading Spanish journalists and data visualisation specialists their successes and challenges. The panelists will debate the urgent need for an access to information law in Spain. Follow this session via

Access Info Europe holds joint seminar on Data Journalism in Madrid.2018-11-13T10:13:29+01:00
12 Oct 2011

Rendition Enquiries

2018-11-13T10:13:29+01:00

Information Request Finds New CIA Flights Showing Previous Rendition Inquiries Failed New documents indicating the movements of CIA flights through Europe demonstrate the need for new inquiries to be made into EU states’ complicity in the CIA’s secret prisons programme, according to legal action charity Reprieve. Data focusing on Lithuania, but linked to suspected CIA activity in a raft of other countries in Europe, North America, the Middle East and North Africa, has been identified by Reprieve and passed to the Lithuanian prosecutor.

Rendition Enquiries2018-11-13T10:13:29+01:00
5 Oct 2011

Global Monitoring Finds Widespread Violations of Right to Information

2020-02-14T16:17:12+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

Global Monitoring Finds Widespread Violations of Right to Information2020-02-14T16:17:12+01:00
5 Oct 2011

RTI Rating

2020-02-14T12:38:36+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 Rating2020-02-14T12:38:36+01:00
1 Oct 2011

Anti-Corruption Transparency Monitoring Methodology

2018-11-13T10:06:04+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

Anti-Corruption Transparency Monitoring Methodology2018-11-13T10:06:04+01:00
29 Sep 2011

Notes to Editor Reprieve

2020-02-14T12:47:26+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.

Notes to Editor Reprieve2020-02-14T12:47:26+01:00