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A newsletter containing news, views, articles, investigative stories in the field of |
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Right
to Information from Around the World |
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Issue No: 131 |
E - Alert |
Issue Date: 01-12-2016 |
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Pakistan Opposition to introduce its own RTI bill in Senate The News International ISLAMABAD: In a significant
move, the joint opposition has decided to introduce its own drafted Right
to Information (RTI) bill as a private piece of ... Pakistan Legal hurdle? Punjab information act challenged The Express Tribune ... and
Transparency Act (PITA) has been challenged before the Lahore High Court on
claims that the law itself is a hurdle in right to information. India CIC orders disclosing Machil, Pathribal Court Martial findings Kashmir Life It has rejected the idea of
invoking Section 8(1)(h) to deny the same
information as was demand by Venkatesh Nayak under Right to Information Act. Pakistan RTI Commission summons HED official as inquiry issue drags on The News International PESHAWAR: The Right to
Information Commission Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has summoned a senior official
in the Higher Education Department on ... Israel The receipts the Prime Minister's Office won't show JerusalemOnline The Prime Minister's Office
declined the request from the Movement for Freedom of Information
to publish the receipts detailing the expenses of the ... UK times the amount of ISIS fighters in Iraq than in Syria The Sun Figures obtained by The Sun
with Freedom of Information requests reveal there have been only 30
RAF attacks in total on Syrian soil since MPs gave ... Pakistan The Nation DERA GHAZI kHAN-The Punjab information commissioner has taken note
of the complaint filed by a citizen over violation of the right to
information. UK Report blames secrecy of information for corruption in security agencies Guardian It added that the freedom
of information's compliance rankings carried out in 2014-2015 showed that
the security agencies were the least likely to ... India Arvind Kejriwal taunts BJP after their U-turn in Supreme Court Financial Express ... Arvind
Kejriwal, in a fresh attack to the new policy, said
that the government should bring all political parties under the Right to
Information act. UK West Midlands
Police investigate three rape cases linked to Tinder dating app Birmingham
Mail Of the
three West Midlands rape investigations linked to Tinder, one alleged victim
could not be traced, according to the Freedom of Information ... India Gujarat High Court to decide if judge's personal details are subject to RTI Bar & Bench ... answering
a pertinent question: to what extent does a sitting High Court judge's
personal details fall under the ambit of the Right to Information Act? Pakistan Activists call for unity within ranks as security concerns rise The News International The other crucial problems
identified by the activists, were the grave violations of right to
information and freedom of association in Balochistan; on top ... Ireland Visa requests from Yemen, Eritrea and Iraq most likely to fail Irish Times The data was obtained by The
Irish Times under Freedom of Information legislation. The Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, which
operates ... Malta GWU will earn €8.5m from government jobless scheme Times of Malta The government has now
provided the contract following a request submitted under the freedom of
information law. The trade union was selected ... Australia ASIC forced to explain why it refuses prospectuses The Australian Following a two-year freedom
of information battle by The Australian, Information Commissioner Timothy
Pilgrim on Friday ordered ASIC to hand over ... Mumbai: NCP students' wing wants varsity to take action against errant canteens Free Press Journal He added that the university
has not floated a tender every year for canteens in its campuses, as per RTI
(Right to Information) replies he has received. India Over 2000 seats vacant in medical schools as infra, cost keep students away Hindustan Times A reply from the Medical
Council of India (MCI) to an HT application filed under the Right to Information
Act revealed that just 56,748 seats of the total ... Pakistan Generals, judges, journalists must also be held accountable Pakistan Today But, it is possible only
through right to information (RTI) legislation, but the RTI law,
despite having been endorsed by Senate Committee on ... India Bureaucrats tour world, but no accountability The Asian Age ... revealed
information received by The Asian Age under the Right to Information
Act. As per the Maharashtra government's circular dated November ... Pakistan 'RTI bill to be presented in next NA session' ISLAMABAD: Minister of State
for Information and Broadcasting Maryam Aurangzeb on Wednesday said that the Right
to Information (RTI) bill will be ... UK UK immigration centres record 218 hunger strikers in three months The Guardian According to figures
released following a Freedom of Information request, 218 people
refused to eat in July, August and September this year. Ireland More than 50000 adoptees to get right to birth certificates Irish Times Illegal adoptions pose
complications in searches for birth parents · Adopted people to gain right
to information on birth parents · Right to access birth ... India RTI activists write to Modi against CIC's coffee table book The Hindu Pune: City-based Right to
Information (RTI) activists have condemned the launch of a coffee table
book on 'successful RTI stories' by the Central ... Israel Prime Minister's Residence's 2015 expenses the lowest in 7 years Israel Hayom In response to the Movement
for Freedom of Information's request, the Prime Minister's Office said
that "the costs of operating the Prime Minister's ... USA Wrongfully Imprisoned in Gitmo for Years, This Man Finally Won His Freedom Huffington Post According to what had been
scared up through a Freedom of Information Act request, Obaidullah was accused of being part of an al
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