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The Carter Center's Ghana Conference on Africa's Right of Access to Information

The Carter Center and its regional partners will hold the African Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information Feb. 7-9, 2010, in Accra, Ghana. A regional action plan will be developed following the conference and function as an addendum to the Atlanta Declaration and Plan of Action for the Advancement of the Right of Access to Information, providing more specific guidance for the advancement of the right of access to information in Africa.

Listen to Laura Neuman, associate director for the Americas Program at The Carter Center and the access to information project manager, discuss the upcoming conference.

Read more about the African Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information:
http://cartercenter.org/peace/americas/ati_conference/2010/index.html

Since 1999, The Carter Center has supported the establishment of an access to information culture, beginning with a project in Jamaica that focused on ongoing legislative efforts to pass an access to information law. The Center's current project models itself on the success of its work in Jamaica, including promoting participatory lawmaking through informed debate and facilitating new partnerships between government and civil society. The project assists access to information initiatives throughout the world with particular emphasis on the Americas region and in the core countries of Jamaica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Mali.

Founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter in partnership with Emory University, The Carter Center is committed to advancing human rights and alleviating unnecessary human suffering. The Center wages peace, fights disease, and builds hope worldwide.

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