NGO Statements
This page contains links to declarations, model laws, principles and other statements issued by non-governmental organizations.
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- Access Info Europe, FOI Advocates Network, Justice Initiative, Manchester Declaration on Access to Information, May 24, 2006 – drafted by civil society organizations on a meeting to review and discuss the issues presented at the 4th International Conference of Information Commissioners.
- Africa Freedom of Information Center and the Media Institute of Southern Africa, Threat to Freedom, Democracy and Accountability in Zambia, 2010- Joint statement on deleting the right to information clause in the draft constitution of the Republic of Zambia.
- Article 19, Johannesburg Principles on National Security, Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, November 1996 - principles adopted by a group of experts in international law, national security, and human rights, convened by ARTICLE 19, the International Centre Against Censorship, in collaboration with the Centre for Applied Legal Studies of the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg.
- Article 19, Lima Principles of the Press Council of Peru / Consejo de la Prensa Peruana, Defensoría del Pueblo (Spanish) (Ombudsman’s Office), November 16, 2000.
- Article 19, Model Freedom of Information Law, July 2001 - a Model for a freedom of information law drafted by Toby Mendel, Head of Law Programme at Article19.
- Carter Center, Atlanta Declaration and Plan of Action for the Advancement of the Right of Access to Information (February 29, 2008) – Declaration released by the participant in the global conference on the right of access to public information. The Declaration emphasizes that access to information is a fundamental human right, (in French, in Spanish)
- Coalition for Freedom of Information (COFI), Guiding Principles for Enactment of an Access to Information Legislation in Uganda, C/O Human Rights Network, Uganda (HURINET (U)), March 2004
- Declaración de Panamá de la Alianza Regional para la Libertad de la Expresión e Información (in Spanish)
- European CSO Open Statement on Governance Reform of the IMF, Bretton Woods Project, 2006 – civil society organizations calling on their governments to jointly put forward a progressive proposal for a reform of the IMF that would facilitate transparency, accountability, legitimacy and effectiveness in decision making. (in German, French, Italian and Spanish)
- Global Transparency Initiative, Transparency Charter for International Financial Institutions: Claiming Our Right to Know, September 2006 - GTI’s statement of the standards to which IFI information disclosure policies should conform and a key advocacy tool for the promotion of more progressive policies. (in Spanish)
- Justice Initiative 10 Principles on the Right to Know (in French and Spanish)
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Principles on National Security and the Right to Information (draft), draft as of January, 2012, developed by Open Society Justice Initiative; Article 19, the Global Campaign for Free Expression; Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC); Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Witwatersrand University (CALS, South Africa); Centre for Democratic Control of the Armed Forces (DCAF); Centre for Law & Development (CLD); Centre for National Security Studies (CNSS); Centre for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE), Palermo University School of Law (Argentina); Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (India); Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (Egypt); Institute for Security Studies (Africa); International Commission of Jurists (ICJ); and National Security Archive.
