RTI/FOI Acts: Another Victim of the Covid 19 Pandemic
Daily Star, May 15, 2020
RTI/FOI Acts: Another Victim of the Covid 19 Pandemic
Shamsul Bari and Ruhi Naz
One of the institutional casualties of the global Covid-19 pandemic is people’s right to information. The Right to Information (RTI) Act, also known as Freedom of Information (FOI) Act in many countries, hosts the transparency regimes in around 130 out of some 210 countries affected by the pandemic. All of them fell victim to government lockdowns, imposed to fight the menace, making most of them inoperative almost instantly. Read More.
