Friday, November 15, 2024<\/p>\n
Shamsul Bari and Ruhi Naz<\/p>\n
Since the interim government of Bangladesh assumed power in August 2024, we have Friday, November 15, 2024 Shamsul Bari and Ruhi Naz Since the interim government of Bangladesh assumed power in August 2024, we have been advocating for the immense potential of the Right to Information Act (RTI) 2009 in promoting transparent and accountable governance. In today’s column, we highlight a crucial principle of transparency currently missing from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","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\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbeen advocating for the immense potential of the Right to Information Act (RTI) 2009
\nin promoting transparent and accountable governance. In today’s column, we highlight
\na crucial principle of transparency currently missing from our RTI Act but deserving
\ninclusion: the “public interest override.” The principle has been incorporated into the
\nlaws of many liberal democracies worldwide, making it a part of a larger global
\nmovement.
\nInternational standards for transparent governance, which have evolved since the end
\nof the Second World War, advocate for the “principle of maximum disclosure” as the
\nideal for all RTI laws. It asserts that, as a general rule, citizens have the right to access
\nall information held by the government, with very few exceptions. These exceptions
\nshould be as narrow as possible and aimed solely at protecting the state’s legitimate
\ninterests. In other words, public interest should be the yardstick when balancing
\ncitizens’ right to information concerning governance and the state’s legitimate need to
\nsafeguard certain sensitive information. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"