By Toby McIntosh After Zimbabwe journalist Hopewell Chin’ono was jailed, charged with inciting public violence for reporting about suspect government purchases of medical supplies, three…
Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) are not very transparent about the results of their lending, particularly to the private sector, according to a report by Publish…
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank has publicly disclosed information about only 14 percent of the contracts signed by African governments to fight Covid-19 with…
By Toby McIntosh It’s been more than a year since eyeonglobaltransparency.net asked the World Bank for documents concerning the Bank’s controversial position and actions concerning…
UNESCO has received completed survey forms from 66 governments on the subject of freedom of information. The goal was to gather information on the functioning…
By Toby McIntosh The United States is continuing to withhold about $2 million from the International Civil Aviation Organization because of “continuing concerns” that ICAO…
By Toby McIntosh The Indian government routinely blocks public disclosure of key documents about proposed World Bank projects in India, according to an examination of…
The refusal by the Tanzanian government to release data about the number of cases and deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic for six weeks has drawn…
By Toby McIntosh The International Civil Aviation Organization does not make public a calendar of its committee meetings, nor are the meetings open to observe.…
By Toby McIntosh A report on “civil society space” prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) overstates the number of…