Grantee Spotlight
May 22, 2013 |
by Guido Romeo
When it comes to access to information (the public’s right to obtain and use information), Italy’s institutions are in a dire state, according to a new study.
Grantee Spotlight
May 21, 2013 |
by Gerard Ryle, Marina Walker-Guevarra
Offshore financial secrecy has spread aggressively around the globe, allowing the wealthy to avoid taxes, and fueling corruption and economic woes, according to a new investigative journalism project.
May 20, 2013 |
by Becky Hogge
Weekly news digest produced by the Information Program. This week’s top story reports on a Peruvian NGO groups calling for protection of their digital rights during negotiations of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement.
May 10, 2013 |
by Becky Hogge
Weekly news digest produced by the Information Program. This week’s top story covers the Indian government’s controversial release of a centralized monitoring system to track communications in the country.
May 3, 2013 |
by Becky Hogge
Weekly news digest produced by the Information Program. This week’s top story reports that the South African Parliament has passed a controversial bill to protect state secrets.
April 26, 2013 |
by Stanley Ibe
Africa's human rights commission has launched its first model law—on access to information—and its first general comments—on the interpretation of an aspect of women's rights.
April 22, 2013 |
by Becky Hogge
Weekly news digest produced by the Information Program. This week’s top story reports on the vote in the US House of Representatives to pass CISPA, a draft law that is critiqued for attacking fundamental privacy rights.
April 22, 2013 |
by Marie-Soleil Frère
Better and wider access to Internet and mobile is changing how journalists work in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), bringing more access but also sometimes greater risk.
Q&A
April 19, 2013 |
by Anna Overstrom-Coleman
Documentary photographer Marcus Bleasdale discusses his project, Zero Hour: Congo, which uses gaming to increase awareness of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
April 11, 2013 |
by Becky Hogge
Weekly news digest produced by the Information Program. This week’s top story draws attention to clauses in the current draft of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired that make it unworkable.
