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Campaign on Citizen’s Right to Information (CCRTI)
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People’s right to information is a key focus of NU’s advocacy efforts. With the equal input of five other organizations, NU thus initiated CCRTI as a means toward helping to ensure that legislation established to protect people’s right to information is enacted and enforced. At present, NU is operating as Secretariat of CCRTI
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Right to Information Ordinance, 2008
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An Ordinance to make provisions for ensuring free flow of information and the people’s right to information.
Whereas the freedom of thought , conscience and speech is recognized in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh as a fundamental right and the
right to information is an inalienable part of thought, conscience and speech; and Whereas all powers of the Republic belong to the people, and it is necessary to establish right to information for empowering the people; and Whereas transparency and accountability in all public, autonomous and statutory organisations and in other private institutions run on government or foreign funding
will increase, corruption will decrease and good governance will be established if the right to information of the people is ensured; and Whereas it is expedient and necessary to make provision for ensuring transparency and accountability in all public, autonomous and statutory organisations and in other private institutions run on government or foreign funding; and And whereas the parliament stands dissolved and it has appeared to the satisfaction of the President that situation exists for taking immediate steps;
Now therefore in exercise of the powers given in Article 93(1) of the constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, the President is pleased to make and promulgate the ordinance.
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