ernment levels. Governments also
have a positive obligation to provide
information for each school, in particular, schools´ admission policies
and admission lists, information on
management practices, school governance, and other relevant aspects.
8. Health: Governments have a duty
to provide access to information
with a view to ensuring and improving access to health care services and
enhancing accountability regarding
their provision. Civil society actors
should be encouraged to implement
actions to expand the reach of this
type of information to all sectors
in society, promote the exercise of
the right to information to advance
the right to health and counter its
violations, undertake advocacy and
monitoring actions and directly involve individuals in them. Enhanced
access to health-related information
shall not preclude the protection of
individuals´ right to privacy. 6
9. The Fight Against Corruption: By
contributing to openness and accountability, access to information
can be a useful tool in anti-corruption efforts. Besides ensuring that
access to information legislation is
effectively implemented, governments have a duty to guarantee
a broader legal and institutional
framework conducive to preventing
and combatting corruption. Civil society organisations and plural media
independent of powerful political
and commercial interests are critical
actors in unveiling and fighting cor-

rupt practices, and their use of access to information laws and other
mechanisms enhancing transparency should be encouraged.
10. Aid Transparency. Governments,
donors and recipients have a duty
to make all information relating to
development assistance including
grants, loans and transfers to public
and private bodies, and assessments
on the use and effects of such assistance fully public in a proactive
manner based on the principles of
the International Aid Transparency
Initiative.
11. Natural Resources Transparency.
Governments should proactively
publish all information including
policies, impact assessments, agreements, subsidies, licenses, permits
and revenues relating to the exploitation of natural resources including the extractive industries,
water, fisheries, and forests. Private
bodies which are exploiting natural resources should be required to
publicly disclose the terms of such
agreements and payments made to
governments based on the principles
developed by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
12. Media and Information Literacy.
Governments, civil society, education institutions, and the media
have an obligation to promote media and information literacy, to assist individuals and communities to
ensure that all members of society
can understand and take advantage
of new technologies, and to be able



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