{"id":459,"date":"2021-12-19T07:58:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T07:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/?p=459"},"modified":"2021-12-19T07:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T07:58:50","slug":"the-rti-act-works-we-just-need-to-convince-people-to-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"The RTI Act works We just need to convince people to use it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Star, December 19, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Shamsul Bari and Ruhi Naz<\/p>\n<p>The importance of a robust Right to Information (RTI) regime for a healthy and vibrant democracy is universally recognised. However, in Bangladesh, the law is yet to capture the imagination of a majority of the population. Only a handful of people have so far used the law.<\/p>\n<p>What is more astonishing is that even the once fabled civil society of Bangladesh, well-known for its proclivity to stand up for democracy and good governance, has kept away from the law\u2014a law that is internationally recognised as a most potent instrument available to citizens for the prevention and detection of corruption, and for promoting transparency and accountability in the work of public bodies&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/December-19-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Star, December 19, 2021 Shamsul Bari and Ruhi Naz The importance of a robust Right to Information (RTI) regime for a healthy and vibrant democracy is universally recognised. However, in Bangladesh, the law is yet to capture the imagination of a majority of the population. Only a handful of people have so far [&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-459","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\/459","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=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}