The Right2Know has endorsed a letter to our leaders asking for information about missing journalist Anton Hammer. 84 people also signed the letter, representing the media, freedom of expression and human rights communities around...
The Right2Know campaign today expressed its shock at the proposed schedule for finishing work on the Secrecy Bill, and called for the Committee to scrap the Bill. A proposed schedule being circulated among committee...
Parliament has confirmed the arbitrary barring of civil society from Parliamentary attendance. A statement issued today by the Parliamentary Communications Services says that security officials took “precautionary security action” by denying entry to the...
Right2Know activists banned from ParliamentNine activists from the Right2Know campaign have been barred from entering the Parliamentary precinct today. The R2K activists had intended to join other members of the public in monitoring a...
The Right2Know Campaign welcomes the South African Press Council’s proactive efforts to review and strengthen their mechanisms for ensuring excellence in journalistic practice and ethics in South Africa. We recently made a submission to...
As a way to carry forward the struggle aganist secrecy, 62 delegates representing civil society organisations, community groups and social movements from the three provinces gathered together for the Right2know Campaign’s first national summit....
The Right2Know (R2K) campaign wishes to express its support for the World Social Forum (WSF) Declaration of the Assembly on the Right to Communication, Dakar made on February 11, 2011. Information is power, but...
The Right2Know campaign has been alerted that a motion will come before the National Assembly on Thursday that will see the Protection of Information Bill (the Secrecy Bill) being dragged back into consideration. Parliamentarians...
The crisis facing the Secrecy Bill has brought Parliament to a crossroads. Parliamentarians can either continue to waste their time and the public’s money to grapple with this disastrous Bill, or they can read...
The Right2Know Campaign (R2K) is a nation-wide coalition of people and organisations campaigning for the rights to information and free expression. It was launched in August 2010 in opposition to the Protection of Information...
