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Legal help and advocacy for freedom of information is a one year project, financially supported by Open Society Foundation - Sofia.

Objective: Constant monitoring and advocacy for freedom of information legislation and especially in access to information area.

The activities on the project include:
• Developing and sustaining a network of lawyers in the country through discussions on freedom of information legislation and access to information in Bulgaria
• Legal help in cases of information refusals on local level
• Monitoring the proposed legislation concerning the Access to Public Information Act
• Constant education campaign for explaining the secondary FOI legislation and AIP proposals
• Advocacy for improving the FOI legislation - coordination between the newly adopted acts and the existing FOI legislation; effectiveness and compliance of the FOI legislation with the international standards on access to information
• Education for the network of coordinators/journalists and lawyers/ from 26 district regions on the adopted legislation concerning the effective execution of the rights and fulfillment of the obligations under APIA and related secondary legislation.


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