Media Rights Monitor

WPFD 2016 Event Spurs New Book Exploring Sweden’s 250-year FOI Law

Bournemouth University Calls for Entries for 2017 New Media Writing Prize

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Calls on Nigeria to take Steps to Curb Hate Speech against Igbos

Aspen Institute Calls for Nominations for New Voices Fellowship

HSG Media Fellowship Accepting Applications

Reuters Foundation Seeks Applications for Training on Reporting Illicit Finance Flows

Texas A&M University photojournalism program, Calls for entries

ILO Launches Media Competition on Labour Migration

Dart Center Accepting Applications for Fellowships on Conflict Reporting

CLEW Seeks Journalism Collaborations on Climate and Energy

CIMA Releases Publication on Challenges to Media and Democracy

The Epoch Times Hosts Journalism Contest, Calls for Entries

2016 Report Shows Low Usage of FOI Act by the Public

MRA Inducts Another Judge, Three Institutions into FOI Hall of Shame

Jeanette Minnie Online Course on Civil Society and African Media Policy Set for Launch

CSOs Using FOI Act to Keep Public Institutions on Their Toes, Says Federal Attorney-General

UNDP Honours MRA for ‘Immense Contribution’ to its Anti-corruption Project in Nigeria

Court Awards N4b Damages Against Online Publisher

Internet Society Celebrates 25th Anniversary

ICT University of Nigeria to Open September 2017

Ministry of Information Trains Information Officers to Tackle Fake News

Journalists Assaulted, Detained over Publication

Condemnations Trail Mob Attack of Media Union Secretariat

Magistrate Strikes out Criminal Defamation Suit against School Teacher

Journalist Sues National Health Insurance Scheme for Denial of Access to Information

Journalist Takes Nigerian Communications Commission to Court over Denial of Access to Information

International Right to Information Day 2020: African Media Experts Call for Access to Information Laws

Centre Calls for Entries for Annual Investigative Journalism Awards

MRA Joins Global Rights Groups to Call on Governments to Restore Legal and Practical Processes for Access to Information

Global Media Competition on Labour Migration, Fair Recruitment Opens, Accepting Entries

Mobile Photography Contest Seeks Entries for 10th Annual Awards

The Aftermath Project Opens Call for Applications for 2021 Conflict Photography Grant

Journalist Sues FRSC, Othersover Failure to Respond to Request for Information Pursuant to the FOI Act, Claims N1 Million Damages

Competition for the Krzysztof Miller Prize for Best Photographic Material in 2020Takes Off

TON/BWF Calls for Entries for Early Career Science Journalism Fellowship

Governments Told to Implement Access to Information to Pre-COVID 19 Levels

BPSR Wins At Second Annual National FOI Compliance and Transparency Rankings

Call for Entries Open for 9thSocial Impact Media Awards

Vice President Osinbajo Wants Expanded Scope For Whistle Blowing Policy Beyond Financial Corruption

Media Councils Publish First-Ever Review of Journalistic Self-Regulation In Europe

Journalist Sues Nigeria’s Airports Authority for Refusal to Provide Information under FOI Act

Web Foundation, Partners Urge UN to Make Digital Trust and Security a Priority

Civil Society Coalition Condemns Attacks on Journalists who Covered Edo State Governorship Election

ACHPR African Commission Harps on the Significance of the Right of Access to Information on IDUAI

Applications Invited for Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation

Coalition of Global Unions Launches Campaign to Save Print Journalism

World Wide Web Inventor Calls on UN to Lead Global Push to Connect the World

Journalists Urged to Use the FOI Act as a Tool for Improving Government Accountability to Citizens