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During the last year CSHRN organized a broad- wide dialogue concerning access to information draft law which is a very important on going activity of CSHRN. In order to receive the feed back of ordinary people...Continue...
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Question: Mr. Mehrayeen! In your point of view what is access to information and what kind of situation does it need? Answer: In my point of view access to information creates transparent, free and fluent...Continue...
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Radio programme on Access to Information was launched in Mazare Sharif by CSHRN and radio Rabia Balkhi: Access to information is one of the elements of democratic governments, and reaching this state is a legal matter. In the last few years, the government of Afghanistan has undertaken many efforts in order to implement all elements and values of democracy. One of these elements is access to information according to the 50th article of the Afghan constitution. The Civil Society and Human Rights Network (CSHRN), an active civil society network, is the first network to fully acknowledge the importance of access to information besides its other valuable programs. CSHRN tries to find a logical and practical way for the implementation of this issue. For this purpose, CSHRN conducted different kinds of programs, discussion and dialogues with different levels of society. CSHRN has national programs all over Afghanistan. CSHRN conducted an analytical symposium in Mazar-e-Sharif on access to information. During this program, the participants discussed about the lack of access to information, the unavailability of reliable information and the development of a draft law on access to information. CSHRN will also soon carry out different programs on the law on access to information in different regions of Afghanistan. Nowadays, CSHRN conducts some radio...Continue...
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The second analytical symposium on access to information and its role in the promotion of democracy and human rights in Afghanistan organized on 28-June-2010 by Civil Society and Human Rights Network. The goal of the symposium was to create a constructive dialogue for common understanding on access to information with some members of parliaments, civil society and media organizations. The symposium was divided into tow parts. The first part of the program allocated for official speeches on the importance of access to...Continue...
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Access to information is one of the main needs of the Afghan society. Widespread corruption, lack of attention to the demands of citizens for information during the past elections, lack of useful, strong, relationship of confidence relationships between Afghan citizens and the Afghan state are the main negative results of this lack of information in Afghanistan.During the past six years, the Civil Society and Human Rights Network (CSHRN) organized a number of dialogues related to access...Continue...
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