{"id":100,"date":"2019-12-29T13:06:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T13:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.masumul.com\/rib\/?p=100"},"modified":"2020-07-18T09:09:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T09:09:11","slug":"law-needs-rti-defenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Law needs RTI defenders"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Daily Star, December 15, 2019<br \/>Law needs RTI defenders <br \/>Shamsul Bari and Ruhi Naz<br \/>The global excitement about Right to Information (RTI) appears to be on the wane. Instead of facilitating citizens\u2019 role to monitor public work by accessing official documents, governments are resorting to procedural and other hurdles to curtail the reach of the law. RTI enthusiasts and scholars who saw the law as an \u201cimpressive display of policy innovation at a global level\u201d, now see it more as \u201cdemocratic window dressing.\u201d Secretive governance is striving to return. <a href=\"http:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/December 15, 2019.pdf\">Read More<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Star, December 15, 2019Law needs RTI defenders Shamsul Bari and Ruhi NazThe global excitement about Right to Information (RTI) appears to be on the wane. Instead of facilitating citizens\u2019 role to monitor public work by accessing official documents, governments are resorting to procedural and other hurdles to curtail the reach of the law. RTI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rti-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}