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On the right to information
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The right to information in the Philippines first appeared in our Constitution 35 years ago, in the early days of Martial Law. Yet while such a right has been recognized in both the 1973 and 1987 Constitutions, the wave of reform that led many countries in the past decade to adopt freedom of information laws has yet to redefine Philippine shores. Since 1998, various lawmakers' drafts of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) have failed to emerge from the Philippine Congress as an enforceable law. In the past decade alone, at least five other countries in Asia have enacted FOIA legislation: Thailand (1997), South Korea (1998), Japan (1999), India (2002) and Pakistan (2002).
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