Southern Africa: Misa Welcomes UNHCR Recommendation to Angola to Amend and Implement Its National Access to Information Law

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The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR), through a draft report from its Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), has called on the government of the Republic of Angola to amend and strengthen the national access to information law to guarantee citizens' right to access information freely.

The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), a member of the African Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC), is pleased to see recognition, by the UN body, of the importance of freedom of information for the overall state of a country's human rights, being an underpinning of democracy and a necessity for the fulfilment of various other fundamental rights.

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