Operationality of RTI at risk
Removal of Audit Commission impairs monitoring of public spending
CIABOC’s investigative powers compromised
Election Commission restricted from acting against public property misuse
Transparency International...
Media Release/2019 June 03.
The Free Media Movement strongly condemns the abrupt suspension of the Parliament Select Committee (PSC) live proceedings, which was probing the Easter...
The country’s much-vaunted Right to Information Act has been hailed as a major breakthrough in the field of information dissemination. While the intentions may...
Image: waiting for the jobs.
Thursday August 24th 2017 - Information on state recruitments and alleged irregularities or malpractices in government/ provincial councils, overseas travel details...
Image: Right to Information includes covering conflict situations.
By Namini Wijedasa.
The word ‘Espionage’ dropped, but originally listed offences reintroduced.
The Counter Terrorism Act policy framework approved...
A civil group, "the Collective for Decent Lanka" has requested the Right to Information Commission to make public its financial and cadre requirements and ...
The officials at the Mass Media and Parliamentary Reforms Ministry has told Minister Ranjan Ramanayaka that a new Media Commission Bill will be enacted shortly...
Image: If they suspect of whereabouts of missing children parents can now request relevant information.
Sri Lanka’s Right to Information (RTI) Act came into effect...
The Constitutional Council has recommended Prof. Savithri Goonasekera, attorney-at-law Kishali Pinto Jayawardena, former judge Salim Marsoof, former Mahaweli Development and Environment Ministry Secretary Neil...
By R.Sampanthan.
Thank you, Hon. Presiding Member.
We are debating an important Bill, the Right to Information Bill in the House today. This Bill should have...
By Chandani Kirinde.
The long-awaited Right to Information (RTI) Bill that seeks to give every Sri Lankan the right of access to information which is...
(LBO) – Sri Lanka’s long-awaited Right to Information Bill was presented to Parliament today as the first reading.
Mass Media and Parliamentary Reforms Minister Gayantha...
The Right to Information (RTI) Bill would be presented to Parliament on March 8.
Deputy Minister of Parliamentary Reforms and Mass Media Karunarathna Paranawithana told...
Concern grows as to what kind of RTI Bill Sri Lanka will enact :
by Rukshana Rizwie.
Nalaka Gunawardene
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The actual worth of Sri Lanka's...
by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena and Venkatesh Nayak-
Introduction.
In giving necessary context to Sri Lanka’s draft Right to Information (RTI) law disseminated by the current Government in...
A remote island has been chosen by Sri Lanka's government for the burial of Covid-19 victims from the minority Muslim and Christian communities.
The government...
