MFWA Special Report on Ebola and Free Expression Coming Out Wednesday
This Wednesday, the MFWA will release the first-ever report on a different casualty of Ebola: freedom of expression. This special report will highlight the…
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MFWA Joins Experts to Develop Ebola Response Messages
Regional and international communication experts have developed clear and harmonized messages to address the information gap in national and regional responses to the Ebola…
Right to Information Day 2014: MFWA Urges Greater Political Will in the Passage of ATI Laws
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) joins the rest of the World to commemorate International Right to Information Day, a day of activism…
APAI Working Group Asks AU, UNESCO to Proclaim September 28 Right to Information Day
Windhoek, Namibia, 26 September 2014: As information activists around the world celebrate the right to information on 28th September, the African Platform on Access to…
Lyon Declaration: Global call to include access to information in UN development agenda
The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) has been lobbying the United Nations to include access to information in the official Agenda for the…
Initiators Seek Public Input into African Declaration on Internet Rights
Inputs are being sought from Internet stakeholders from around the African continent and beyond into a draft “African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms”…
African CSOs urge Ghana, others to pass RTI law
A group of nine civil society organisations including the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) that is leading a campaign to promote the passage…
Access to information and independent media are essential to development
A joint statement from freedom of expression advocacy organisations. Human development in the coming decades will depend on people’s access to information. Ground-breaking new…
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MFWA welcomes historic FOI legislation in Liberia
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia signed into law, the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill, thereby making Liberia the first country in West Africa…
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Liberia ALERT: Lower House okays FOI Act
The Liberia’s House of Representatives of the Legislature overwhelming approved the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, following intensive lobbying by the Freedom of Expression…