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Access to Information
Free Expression & the Law
In commemoration of the first International Day of Universal Access to Information, MISA has launched its Transparency Assessment, which seeks to establish the ease or difficulty with which citizens in southern Africa can access public information.
Southern Africa Highlights
Access to Information
Free Expression & the Law
MISA's 2015 report reveals that direct requests for information are still generally met with hostility within the public service, with researchers experiencing long delays, non-responsive institutions or demands to justify their request for information.
Access to Information
On 28 September, the Media Institute of Southern Africa marked International Right to Information Day by launching Government Secrecy in an Information Age: 2014 Report on Open & Secretive Public Institutions in Southern Africa.
Southern Africa
Attacks
For this 20th edition of So This Is Democracy? the disturbing but relevant theme is "media behind bars", due to the many cases MISA recorded in 2013 of authorities arresting journalists, often without a clear reason and then detaining them, interrogating them, and confiscating their equipment and materials.
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Southern Africa
Free Expression & the Law
14 February 2014
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Southern Africa
Attacks
31 May 2013
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Southern Africa
World Press Freedom Day
2 May 2012
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Southern Africa
World Press Freedom Day
1 May 2012
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Southern Africa
World Press Freedom Day
30 April 2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Media Institute of Southern Africa
ARTICLE 19
Southern Africa
Free Expression & the Law
2 May 2003
Freedom of Expression Institute
Freedom of Expression Institute
Freedom of Expression Institute
Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
Media Institute of Southern Africa
ARTICLE 19
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Media Institute of Southern Africa
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