AP tests freedom of information laws worldwide
More than 5.3 billion people in more than 100 countries now have the right -- on paper -- to know what their government is doing behind closed doors. But do citizen right-to-know laws really work?
In the first worldwide test of freedom of information, The Associated Press submitted the same set of questions in each of the 105 countries with right-to-know laws, along with the European Union.
More than half the countries with freedom of information laws do not follow them, the AP found. New democracies are better at responding than older ones -- including the United States, which responded late and only partially.
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“Access Denied” was sent on Nov. 17. It is the second part of AP's global freedom of information project. The first part, “Convicted for Terror,” about the number and nature of terrorism arrests and convictions worldwide since the terror attacks of 9/11, moved on Sunday, Sept. 4. Both reports are available on AP's Facebook page: http://t.co/MpO9pnLv
Associated Press http://www.ap.org/Global_FOI/index.html
I do have a recollection of mention of this subject elsewhere on DU but cannot search. If this is in fact a duplicate here in Good reads then please kick the original and I will self delete this tomorrow morning GMT.
