Right to Know Day 2004

In 2004 the 2nd annual International Right to Know Day was celebrated in 20 countries around the world:

Africa

Sierra Leone South Africa

Americas

USA Mexico Jamaica El Salvador Peru Argentina

Asia

India

Europe

Spain Czech Republic Slovakia Albania Latvia Croatia Serbia and Montenegro Romania Bulgaria Armenia Moldova

International Organizations

Open Society Justice Initiative

Right to Know Day around the world - Croatia
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Organizer: Croatian Helsinki Commitee for Human Rights
Event: Public debate and others
Date: September 28

Description: Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, together with its 28 NGO
coalition partners who successfully campaigned for the adoption of a FOIA last year, organised several activities in order to mark for the first time in Croatia the Public Right to Know Day on 28th September. The peak of these activities (distribution of posters, special forms of requests for information, guides through FOIA, press releases and broadcast of TV spot on public TV and two private broadcasters free of charge) will be a public debate on 28th of September with the participation of the highest officials
- President of the Republic Mr. Stjepan Mesir, Minister of Justice Ms Vesna Vesna Skare - Ozbolt, State Secretary for Administration Mr. Antun Palaric, members of the Parliament, vice-president of the High Administrative Court, deputy ministers etc, as well as members of our NGO coalition and the media. It will be an opportunity to lobby for the amendments of the FOIA (inclusion of a three part test) and to raise public awareness on the importance of the usage of the FOIA especially on behalf of citizens and the media. Results of testing the implementation of FOIA, done by the end of August will be also presented to the public. Answers on a FOIA questionnaire received from different public bodies as well as answers on 300 requests for information sent to the public bodies, both on national and local level will be published. First results show that we got only 79 answers on the requests, 67 of them were positive and 12 negative. Answers on the FOIA questionnaire present the real situation in public bodies
regarding the organisational, material and professional preconditions neccessary for the implementation of the law. Since the secondary legislation has not been published in the official gazzette as yet the majority of public bodies have neither register for FOIA requests and catalogues of information nor appointed FOIA officer.

Therefore the main purpose of the celebration of the Public Right to Know Day is to push forward our NGO campaign on FOIA issues in Croatia.

 
Actualizado ( Miércoles, 06 de Mayo de 2009 08:29 )
 

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