[Rejestr] Fwd: World's First Rating of Right to Information

Czw, 29 Wrz 2011, 10:50:37 CEST

Witajcie,

w kontekście prac nad udip mogą Was zainteresować wyniki rankingu Right
to Information przygotowanego przez Access Info Europe.

Pozdrowienia,

Alek Tarkowski

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Subject: 	World's First Rating of Right to Information
Date: 	Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:28:36 +0000
From: 	Access Info Europe <helen w access-info.org>
To: 	alek w creativecommons.pl

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Press Release*
For immediate release

*World’s First Rating of Right to Information: 89 Countries Ranked
www.rti-rating.org
*

/28 September 2011, Madrid/Halifax/ - On International Right to Know
Day, two leading human rights organisations, Access Info Europe (Spain)
and the Centre for Law and Democracy (Canada), are launching the first
detailed analysis of the legal framework for the right to information
(RTI) in 89 countries around the world.

The RTI Rating <http://www.rti-rating.org> is based on 61 Indicators
drawn from a wide range of international standards on the right to
information, feedback from an international Advisory Council of renowned
experts on the right to information and comparative study of numerous
right to information and related laws from around the world.

The findings of the RTI Rating show that there is a significant variety
in the quality of the legal framework, with scores out of a maximum
possible 150 ranging from 37 (Germany) to 135 (Serbia). Some of the key
results:

» More recent laws protect the right to know more strongly; of the 20
countries with scores above 100, 11 adopted their RTI laws since 2005,
and 7 since 2000 – these laws tend to have much stronger oversight,
enforcement and promotion.

» Of the 20 countries with scores above 100, 7 are in East and Central
Europe, 5 in Asia, 4 in the Americas, 3 in Africa and only one is in
Western Europe;

» Europe overall accounts for 15 of the bottom 20, primarily the older
European laws which are more limited in scope and have weaker appeals
mechanisms;

/“Effective protection of human rights like the right to information
requires a sound legal basis,” /said Toby Mendel, Executive Director of
the Centre for Law and Democracy./“This rating tool enables us to
pinpoint areas of weakness in the legal framework for RTI, and to direct
future advocacy at resolving these.” /

The RTI Rating shows not only a country’s overall score, but also but
also its strengths and weaknesses in relation to seven main categories:
Right of Access, Scope; Requesting Procedures; Exceptions and Refusals;
Appeals; Sanctions and Protections; and Promotional Measures.

The score for the legal framework did not always accord with overall
levels of transparency in a country in practice. Some national experts
who reviewed the AIE and CLD country assessments noted that is sometimes
a gap between the quality of the law and the practice. In some northern
European countries, the older legal frameworks do not fully reflect the
culture of transparency in practice, whereas in countries like
Azerbaijan, Nepal and Ethiopia, strong laws on paper do not necessarily
reflect a fully open society; the strong laws in El Salvador and Liberia
were adopted too recently to assess the practice.

/“Testing of levels of transparency in practice is essential to have a
full picture,”/commented Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access
Info Europe. /“Adopting a law is only a first step to transparency;
without accurate measures of access to information in practice,
governments can participate in ‘transparency washing’ and claim greater
respect for this fundamental human right than is in fact the case.”/*
*

*Note for editors*

  *

    More information about the tools used in preparing the RTI Rating,
    the Advisory Committee and the detailed ratings for each country can
    be found at: www.rti-rating.org <http://www.rti-rating.org>.*
    *

  *

    **Access Info Europe and the Centre for Law and Democracy remain
    open to comments and corrections to the RTI Rating. We know that
    only through expert feedback will we perfect this analysis. The
    following countries have not yet had national reviewers and comments
    from experts knowing about those countries would be particularly
    welcome: Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Bangladesh, Cook Islands,
    Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Greece, Guatemala,
    Guinea-Conakry, Iceland, Korea (South), Kosovo, Liechtenstein,
    Montenegro, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, St
    Vincent and the Grenadines, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Trinidad and
    Tobago, Tunisia and Turkey.

*For further information please contact:*
*Helen Darbishire*, Access Info Europe
www.access-info.org <http://www.access-info.org>
Email: helen w access-info.org <mailto:helen w access-info.org> | +34 667
685 319
*Michael Karanicolas*, Centre for Law and Democracy
www.law-democracy.org <http://www.law-democracy.org>
Email: michael w law-democracy.org <mailto:michael w law-democracy.org> | +1
902 448 5290

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