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Access to information as a human right / Cheryl Ann Bishop.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bishop, Cheryl Ann, 1964-
- Series:
- Law and society (New York, N.Y.)
- Law and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freedom of information.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Conceptualizing access to government information as a human right is a new development in the global trend promoting institutional transparency. Bishop provides a comprehensive examination of international human rights law and explains four conceptualizations of access to information as a human right. Rights to information have been linked to the right to free expression, the right to privacy, and the right to a healthy environment, and the right to the truth about human rights abuses. She concludes that a human right to access information is evolving in disparate ways. The current evolution o
- Contents:
- Freedom-of-expression conceptualization
- Information-privacy conceptualization
- Right-to-a-healthy-environment conceptualization
- Right-to-truth conceptualization
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781593325053
- 1593325053
- OCLC:
- 818819093
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