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Launch of Report on Global Right to Information Stress Test
- By Raphael CLD
- 28 September 2025
Launch of Report on Global Right to Information Stress Test
On 28 September 2025, on the occasion of International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI), the Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD) released, with support of UNESCO, a report on the Global Comparative Testing of Responses to Requests for Information, the first global exercise in which the same two requests for information were put to public authorities in as many of the 140 countries with right to information (RTI) laws as possible. Fully 38% of the responses were mute refusals (no response at all), while 51% of the responses provided some information (among which 42% were full disclosures, albeit some late).
CLD hopes that the testing exercise will help reinvigorate campaigns for better implementation of RTI laws in countries around the world.
The testing report is available here.
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