Right to Know Day 2009

International Right to Know Day on 28 September 2009 will be celebrated by civil society organizations from around the world. Below you can find further information on activities in different countries and their organisers.

 

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Right to know day 2009 - Latin American Region

Organizer: Regional Alliance for the Freedom of Expression and Information, Latin America
Date: 28th September 2009
Event: Dissemination of Report on the state of Access to nformation in the Latin American Region

Description:

As a part of the activities for the "Right to Know Day 2009", the Regional Alliance for the Freedom of Expression and Information (Alianza Regional para la Libertad de Expresion e Informacion) will present and disseminate a report on the current situation of the access to information in Latin America.

On the initiative of CAinfo, from Uruguay and Pro Acceso, from Chile, we are compiling the data based on a questionnaire developed to provide guidance for each organization member. This will make easier to give account of the situation of access to information in each of their countries.

The report will have two appendices: Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF, Washington DC) will contribute with a paper on the legal mandates to give information and the need to include the Judiciary as a governmental agency mandated to provide information. CAinfo and ProAcceso will write a paper on the challenges of the implementation and use of this right.

These activities aim to generate a product that gives accurate account of the current state of the access to information from the point of view of the users of this right in each country.

The Regional Alliance for Freedom of Expression and Information is a coalition of 24 members, leading organizations on issues of access to information and freedom of expression in the Americas.

The organizations member of the Alliance are:

Argentina                                         ADC (Asociación por los Derechos Civiles)
Bolivia                                              ANP (Asociación Nacional de la Prensa)

Chile                                                 Fundación Pro Acceso
Colombia                                          FLIP (Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa)
Transparencia Colombia
Costa Rica                                        IPLEX (Instituto de Prensa y Libertad de Expresión)
Dominican Republic                        Participación Ciudadana
Finjus (Fundación Institucionalidad y Justicia)
El Salvador                                       APES (Asociación de Periodistas de El Salvador)
FUSADES (Fundación Salvadoreña para el Desarrollo Económico y Social)
Ecuador                                            Fundamedios

Guatemala                                        Acción Ciudadana

Honduras                                          FDSF (Fundación Democracia sin Fronteras)
C-Libre
Mexico                                             PRENDE (Fundación Prensa y Democracia)

Nicaragua                                         FVBCH, (Fundación Violeta Barrios de Chamorro)
INEH, (Instituto nicaraguense de Estudios Humanisticos)

Panama                                            CNP (Consejo Nacional de Periodismo)

Paraguay                                          IDEA (Instituto de Derecho y Economía Ambiental)
Peru                                                 IPYS (Instituto Prensa y Sociedad)

Venezuela                                        TRASNPARENTE Venezuela
United States                                   DPLF (Due Process of Law Foundation)
Trust for the Americas

Uruguay                                           CAinfo (Centro de Archivos y Acceso a la Información)
 

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