Freedom of Information Center of Armenia.
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2001-2011. This year FOICA celebrates its 10th anniversary. "Freedom of Information Center of Armenia" non-governmental organization (FOICA) was founded on July 1st, 2001. The main mission of FOICA is to defend the people's constitutional right to have access to information.
Bulletin
FOICA publishes "You Have a Right to Know" bulletin since 2001, which is the only professional publication in Freedom of Information sphere. The bulletin contains articles about the public's right of access to information.
Court Cases
Here we present complete picture of judicial practice in the field of freedom of information: all court cases on FOI, with related documents: Information requests, court decisions, etc.
Black List
Black list of those officials and institutions which infringed people’s right to access to information, quarterly composed by the FOI Center. The List is also published in the bulletin and Armenian print media.
Information request
This sample of Information request will help you to write your request correctly and due to the RA Law on "Freedom of Information". It is developed by the FOICA.
Recent news
events &
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01.02.2012
For the first time the Freedom of Information Center publishes a White List of those officials and institutions that reviewed their activities after being included in the quarterly Black Lists, and carried on reforms that improve information accessibility.
27.12.2011
Interview with founding president of Freedom of Information Center of Armenia Shushan Doydoyan
2012 will really be a challenging year for mass media outlets. Unfortunately, in today’s media sphere there is a special treatment for certain politicians and institutions – both negative and positive. In my opinion these attitudes will be more deeply felt especially in the pre-election period. The freedom of speech will more often be violated, and particularly the number of court cases against the press will increase. Self-censorship will increase even more among media outlets.
26.12.2011
Black List 2011, 3nd & 4rd Quarter
These officials have violated the human access to information right during the 3rd &4rd quarter of 2011
18.12.2011
Answer This: Media watchdog says FOI requests not being met according to law
Many officials in Armenia still remain reluctant to work openly and transparently when it comes to providing public information to media, according to data of a recent monitoring conducted by a local media watchdog.