Philippines' RTI Campaign
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Jul 9, 2012, 12:39:05 PM7/9/12
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Dear AFIC members,
Greetings from AFIC Secretariat. We have been approached to support campaign for an RTI law in the Philippines. 2 years ago we supported a letter to the President of the Philippines calling on her to help push for the adoption of an RTI law there. At that time, the law was within a hair's breadth of being passed, but unfortunately it did not quite make it.
We hope that with the new President, who is more supportive, the law would go through, but we are again facing the possibility that time might run out (this Congress ends in May next year). The draft on the table is one that civil society groups in the Philippines support, and it also takes into account some concerns of the President. We have also rated it using our RTI Rating, and it did well (102 points).
Nepomuceno Malaluan, the Co-Convenor of the leading civil society grouping in the Philippines, the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition and Toby Mendel from Law and Democracy have written to us asking for international support at this crucial time (letter attached).
I am attaching a letter that we are asking organisations and individuals to sign onto. We would like to put it to the President before his State of the Nation Address on 23 July, so we need your support by 18 July. We encourage AFIC members to please respond positively to this important call for support from our colleagues in the Philippines (and encourage others to sign on too)!
Thank you for your quick response,
Gilbert Sendugwa
Coordinator/ Head of Secretariat
Africa Freedom of Information Centre
Plot 5 Katego Road, Kamokya (Near Save the Children)
P.O Box 35643
Tel: 256 414 533554 Fax 256 414 533554
Mobile: 256 772 454073/ 256 703 022114
Email: gil...@africafoicentre.org OR send...@yahoo.com
Website: www.africafoicentre.org
Dear AFIC members,
Greetings from AFIC Secretariat. We have been approached to support campaign for an RTI law in the Philippines. 2 years ago we supported a letter to the President of the Philippines calling on her to help push for the adoption of an RTI law there. At that time, the law was within a hair's breadth of being passed, but unfortunately it did not quite make it.
We hope that with the new President, who is more supportive, the law would go through, but we are again facing the possibility that time might run out (this Congress ends in May next year). The draft on the table is one that civil society groups in the Philippines support, and it also takes into account some concerns of the President. We have also rated it using our RTI Rating, and it did well (102 points).
Nepomuceno Malaluan, the Co-Convenor of the leading civil society grouping in the Philippines, the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition and Toby Mendel from Law and Democracy have written to us asking for international support at this crucial time (letter attached).
I am attaching a letter that we are asking organisations and individuals to sign onto. We would like to put it to the President before his State of the Nation Address on 23 July, so we need your support by 18 July. We encourage AFIC members to please respond positively to this important call for support from our colleagues in the Philippines (and encourage others to sign on too)!
Thank you for your quick response,
Gilbert Sendugwa
Coordinator/ Head of Secretariat
Africa Freedom of Information Centre
Plot 5 Katego Road, Kamokya (Near Save the Children)
P.O Box 35643
Tel: 256 414 533554 Fax 256 414 533554
Mobile: 256 772 454073/ 256 703 022114
Email: gil...@africafoicentre.org OR send...@yahoo.com
Website: www.africafoicentre.org
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