By Toby McIntosh UNICEF, a key partner in the international effort to procure Covid-19 vaccines “will publish relevant details” on the contracts, “subject to the…
By Toby McIntosh Contracts to buy Covid-19 vaccines are being kept secret, completely or substantially, by the global purchasing entity started by the World Health…
Rejections of requests for information are rarely so candid. But when civil society organizations asked the Green Climate Fund for basic information about what projects…
By Toby McIntosh A major UNESCO survey on access to information (ATI) at the national level has been such a flop that the agency is…
By Toby McIntosh About half of United Nations agencies hold closed meetings of their key decision-making bodies, according to the survey of 27 UN bodies…
By Toby McIntosh The International Maritime Organization has asked delegates, and the media, to refrain from live-tweeting while attending at a virtual committee meeting on…
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank has begun disclosing more information about its scrutiny of how governments spend Bank funds. The Bank is now revealing…
By Toby McIntosh Turkey’s effort to bar four nongovernmental organizations from an international meeting on organized crime has been foiled. The Turkish move was turned…
By Toby McIntosh Turkey is seeking to prevent Article 19, a major nongovernmental organization on freedom of expression, from participating in a just-begun United Nation…
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…