{"id":65,"date":"2019-07-29T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T11:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.masumul.com\/rib\/?p=65"},"modified":"2020-06-29T14:54:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T14:54:45","slug":"a-healthy-right-to-information-regime-is-in-everyones-best-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"A healthy right to information regime is in everyone\u2019s best interest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Daily Star, July 15, 2019<br>A healthy right to information regime is in everyone\u2019s best interest<br>Shamsul Bari and Ruhi Naz<br>Funds stolen by political leaders. School supplies siphoned off by a contractor. Ghost workers created to claim benefits. Evidence of government-sanctioned torture. Trees that were meant to be planted but never were\u2026 these are just some of the stories unearthed by using Right to Information (RTI) or Freedom of Information (FOI) laws in some 130 countries. These laws oblige governments to disclose information they normally would not. The range of issues that citizens can tackle using RTI laws may surprise many readers.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/July%2015,%202019.pdf\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Star, July 15, 2019A healthy right to information regime is in everyone\u2019s best interestShamsul Bari and Ruhi NazFunds stolen by political leaders. School supplies siphoned off by a contractor. Ghost workers created to claim benefits. Evidence of government-sanctioned torture. Trees that were meant to be planted but never were\u2026 these are just some of [&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-65","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\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}