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THEALIANZA REGIONAL ORGANIZES THE WEEK OF TRANSPARENCY TO PROMOTE A LAWON ACCESS TO PUBLIC INFORMATION IN ASUNCIN,PARAGUAY.

TheAlianza Regional por la Libre Expresin e Informacin, with support from the World Bankand through its member organization IDEA forParaguay, organizes with the Promoting Group onAccess to Public Information GIAI, the Week of Transparencyin Paraguay.

The aim is to promote a Law on Access to Public Information and convey positive experiences ofits promulgation in the countries of the Southern Cone region. To this end, we had the support ofCAINFO from Uruguay and PROACCESO from Chile.

Today, the Conference Journalism and Access to Public Information Challenges of the XXICentury is being held, with the participation of Chilean journalist Sebastin Rivas Vargas,Uruguayan businessman and journalist Danilo Arbilla and the Special Rapporteur for Freedomof Expression, Catalina Botero, along with local journalist representatives of the Union ofJournalist of Paraguay SPP and the Forum of Journalists of Paraguay FOPEP. In this context,it will be important to generate awareness within the communicators, regarding the added valuethat provides a tool such as the law on access to information for the practice of journalism.

On Tuesday, September 6, at the Congress of the Republic of Paraguay, the Conference:Regional legislative process in access to public informationwill be presented. We will have theopportunity to dialogue with parliamentarians and government officials, on the Chilean experiencein the adoption of the law, by Moises Samchez from Pro Acceso Chile and the challengesfaced by Mexico in this processes told by Salvador Guzmn Zapata, Mexican director of theguaranteeing body on access to public information of the State of Morelos. Finally, KarinaBanfi will transmit the experience of the participation of theAlianza Regionalin developing OASInter-American Model Law.

Since 2001, Paraguay tries to have a Law on Access to Public Information. The Alianza Regionalhas contemplated various forms on intervention that exposes the need for a law for Paraguay.We collaborated with the design of the draft law with the participation of several members of thenetwork and we supported, during 2009, with a regional amicus brief before the Supreme Court ofParaguay, "Defensora del Pueblo vs. Municipalidad de San Lorenzo sobre acceso a lainformacin and we are waiting for a favorable ruling to the full exercise of this fundamental right.Right now, the challenge is to find, within the press, strategic allies that may accompany the

process that is needed, as well as to identify the leaders who will carry out the approval of thislaw in Paraguay.

You can follow this event on Twitter, through @AlianzaRegional.

Executive SecretariatAlianza Regional por laLibre Expresin e Informacin

correo@alianzaregional.net

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