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14.09.2007 Ombudsman to the Prime Minister
The RA Ombudsman Mr. Armen Harutyunyan issued a letter to the RA Prime Minister Mr. Serj Sargissyan expressing his concern on the current problems occuring in the field of FOI Law Implementation. In particular, he raised the issue of lacking the sub legal acts to be adopted by the Government. Here you can read the letter in Armenian.
23.08.2007 Present Your Own Candidates for Golden Key and Lock
Independent Jury of the FOI Annual Award Ceremony is now open to accept your suggestions of candidates for the following nominations: • Positive Award for a state institution with the best system of providing information. • Positive Award for a citizen who has actively exercised his/her right of access to information under FOI Law. • Positive Award for the author of the best FOI related article/broadcast...
10.05.2007 Court Monitoring of Electoral Disputes' Resolution
Freedom of Information Center NGO implements a project " Court Monitoring of Electoral Disputes' Resolution" from May 2 to July 31, 2007. All those persons and organizations, who will appeal courts to restore their violated rights in the mentioned period, may turn to Freedom of Information Center. We will provide you with free legal aid. The monitoring is supported by ABA CEELI.
10.05.2007 Transparent Elections: Guidebook for Journalists
A guidebook for journalists on how to exercise their right to access electoral information was developed by the local NGO Freedom of Information Centre with financial support from the OSCE Office. "Media access to election information can ensure that the electorate has a fair choice and that the overall electoral processes are transparent, " said Ambassador Vladimir Pryakhin, Head of the OSCE Office. "This user-friendly publication was designed to raise journalists'...
27.04.2007 BLACK LIST JANUARY-APRIL, 2007
THESE OFFICIALS HAVE VIOLATED PEOPLES' RIGHT OF INFORMATION DURING JANUARY-APRIL, 2007 1 Manukyan Rustam Mayor of the village Saratak 2 Piloyan Seyran...
24.01.2007 Your law is better than ours
Freedom of Information Center organized a two-day workshop on the FOI law implementation in Armenia for the representatives of mass media and NGOs. The workshop took place in Tsaghkadzor on January 17-18. Workshop speaker Mrs. Marine Hakobyan, NA and FOICA expert represented the principles and implementation mechanisms of FOI law, as well as showed the sample of the information request form. Mrs. Hasmik Khachatryan, Head of the PR Department Ministry of...
