The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) and the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) held a workshop for journalists on the right of access to information at Maan News Agency headquarters in Bethlehem, on Thursday 24 January 2012.
The workshop – which was conducted over four hours – covered important topics such as the concept of the right of access to information, local legislation ensuring this right - particularly Palestinian draft law - as well as international standards and best practices regarding the right of access to information, relevant international initiatives in this field, and compared them with the Palestinian legal status.
The journalists, who came from various media outlets in Bethlehem, spoke about the most prevalent obstacles facing them in their quest for information and discussed methods for overcoming these obstacles.
MADA and DCAF will hold a series of workshops in the different cities across the West Bank and Gaza Strip to promote journalists’ knowledge about access to information draft law, and to collect their notes and recommendations on this draft law to develop it.
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