A Broader View: Private companies, human rights and the extractive industry

2010
With Zimbabwe’s diamond industry still shrouded in secrecy, SALC assisted the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) and three Zimbabweans to petition the New Reclamation Group (Pty) Ltd (Reclam) for access to information that will shed some much-needed light on its controversial mining operations.
Read further » Private companies human rights and the extractive industry final.pdf

Avenues for access to information litigation: the legitimacy of supra-national judicial bodies in Southern Africa

2010
With only 3 of the 15 SADC countries having enacted Access to Information laws and only 4 recognising the Right to Know as a standalone right in their Constitutions, the relevance of the supra-national enforcement bodies in right to information litigation efforts is illustrated by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ decision in the case of Claude v Chile. In this case the regional court recognized that the general right to access state-held information is included in the guaranteed right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas. Such interpretation of a provision of a regional human rights treaty by a regional body becomes authority in domestic enforcement of human rights.
Read further » Avenues for access to information litigation the legitimacy of supra-national judicial bodies in Southern Africa.pdf

Judicial Handbook on Litigating and Adjudicating Access to Information Cases

2011
In preparation for a regional judicial colloquium on FOI, the meeting brought together a group of individuals to serve as a Faculty.
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PAIA applicable to corporations operating outside of SA

2011
The key question raised by a new set of requests for information filed by SALC with the New Reclamation Group is whether the constitutional right given effect to through the enactment of Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) are only available for the benefit of persons within South Africa.
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Quick Guide to accessing information in terms of section 37 of the Constitution of Malawi

2011
A quick Guide to requesting information in terms of section 37 of the Constitution of Malawi
Read further » Quick Guide to requesting information in terms of section 37 of the Constitution of Malawi.pdf

Table on FOI legislation and constitutional provisions

2010

Read further » Table on legislation in Southern Africa.doc