• Adopt and effectively implement legislation and policies ensuring whistleblowerprotection. Business Sector Companies and Corporations to: • Civil Society to: • • • • • Engage with governments in developing, enhancing and implementing ATI laws; Monitor progress on the implementation of ATI laws including sectoral laws; Create awareness on ATI and provide assistance to facilitate information access by the general public as well as by specific audiences (including women, minority groups and minority language speakers, children, rural communities, individuals with disabilities or living in poverty); Ensure transparency in their own activities; Promote September 28 as African and International Right to Information Day and, in particular, carry out activities on that date every year to advance the recognition, awareness and enjoyment of the right of access to information by all sectors of society. • • • Public and Private Donors to: • • • Media to: • • • • • • • • 118 Respect editorial independence, professional ethics and journalism standards in their provision of information; Recognise the need for transparency and accountability with regard to their own output and institutions, while safeguarding the principal of protecting sources; Respect and promote equality, and provide equitable representation within their information output; Promote the widest possible access to their information output; Enhance mechanisms for audience participation and response; Recognise and be responsive to gender differences in regard to audience and market research; Popularise the importance of, and issues around, access to information. Make optimum use of ATI laws to access information for the public interest. So This is Democracy? 2014 Join multi-stakeholder initiatives promoting transparency including EITI, CoST and MeTA; Adopt corporate and social responsibility (CSR) policies that promote transparency and accountability, including access to information and protection of whistleblowers; Proactively disclose information of public interest including on pollution releases and other environmental issues; Support government and CSO efforts to improve access to information in society. • Ensure that all information relating to the use of development assistance and its effects are made public; Ensure that all information relating to development assistance is made available in conformity with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standards; Encourage and support governments in the adoption and full implementation of access to information laws and policies; Support civil society and governments’ efforts to promote access to information. Adopted in Cape Town, South Africa, on this 19th Day of September 2011, upon a motion for adoption moved by Advocate Pansy Tlakula, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and seconded by Hon. Norris Tweah, Deputy Minister of Information of the Republic of Liberia.