Established in 2007 in Nigeria out of the Lagos Declaration on Freedom of Expression of 2005, the Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC) moved to Kampala in 2009 and registered under the Non-Governmental Organisations Registration Act, CAP. 113.
Over these years, AFIC has been successful in influencing or using regional and international mechanisms to address national, regional and international situations of Freedom of Expression and Access to Information.
Some of the results are; the adoption of the African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) Resolution 222 on the expansion of Declaration of Principles of Freedom of Expression to include access to information and the Declaration of September 28 as International Day for Universal Access to Information by the UNESCO General Conference of November 2015. Read More…
