{"id":112,"date":"2013-12-29T13:42:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T08:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/transparencymaldives.org\/transparency\/v16\/?p=112"},"modified":"2021-05-16T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T10:40:36","slug":"access-to-information-bill-endorsed-by-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/access-to-information-bill-endorsed-by-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Access to Information Bill endorsed by Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Access to information legislation crucial to fight corruption<\/h4>\n<p>PRESS RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Date: December 29, 2013<\/p>\n<p>The passage of the Access to Information bill by the Parliament today was an important step towards increasing transparency of the state institutions, ensuring greater accountability of public officials, and fighting corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Transparency Maldives hopes that President Abdulla Yamin Abdul Gayoom will expedite the ratification of the bill.We call on all actors and institutions to provide their full support towards successfully implementing the law once ratified.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For all media queries, please contact Advocacy and Communications Manager, Aiman Rasheed on 00 960 7908967.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The press release is linked here in <a href=\"http:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/EN_2013_12_29.pdf\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">English<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DV_2013_12_29.pdf\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Divehi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access to information legislation crucial to fight corruption PRESS RELEASE Date: December 29, 2013 The passage of the Access to Information bill by the Parliament today was an important step towards increasing transparency of the state institutions, ensuring greater accountability of public officials, and fighting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3877,"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/3877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}