91Èȱ¬ World Service series about FOI
Over seventy countries across the world now have freedom of information laws, covering over half the world´s population and promising them the right to know more about what their governments are doing.
But how much difference do these laws make in practice? Who really uses them, or even cares about them? And what happens when the backlash strikes?
These are some of the questions considered in a 91Èȱ¬ World Service two-part documentary series, The Right to Know, which starts today. (I produced it, and you can see a picture of some of the participants on the , the under-secretary for institutional reform in the Argentinian government.)
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