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…
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…