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Sent: 24/05/2005 22:10
Subject: Latest Analysis of New India Right to Information Law: "Good, Bad,
and Ugly (maybe)" Says Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
freedominfo.org update, May 24, 2005
Latest Analysis of New India Right to Information Law:
"Good, Bad, and Ugly (maybe)" Says Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
http://www.freedominfo.org
May 24, 2005 - India's new Right to Information law goes "considerably
further than the Freedom of Information Act of 2002," according to
analysis from the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative posted today at
freedominfo.org, but "still retains a number of restrictive provisions,
which could be abused to deny information which rightly belongs in the
public domain."
The new law was finally enacted by the Indian government following a
number of false starts and after hectic lobbying by civil society over
the last year, since the new Government came into power with an explicit
commitment to making the old law "more progressive, participatory and
meaningful."
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