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ALL. See Administrative Licensing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 44 Law—China Bhopal gas disaster, 219, 279, 280, Amazon forest preservation, 287 305n2 American Bar Association, 268 “big brother” police state, 348 Amnesty International, 270 Bio-Bio River project (Chile), 256, 257 ANC. See African National Congress Biodiversity Conservation Centre, 301 AngloGold Ashanti, 234 BJP. See Bharatiya Janata Party Angola, 224, 253 blanket secrecy, 311 Anticorruption Office—Argentina Blanton, Thomas, 243, 329, 341, 344, (AO), 197 346 Anyanwu, Tony, 158 BMD. See ballistic missile defense AO. See Anticorruption Office—Ar- Bodibe, Oupa, 232 gentina Bolivia, 186–87, 192, 197; civil ser- APIA. See law on access to informa- vants in, 196; documents in, 198; tion—Bulgaria laws of, 210n6 “Archive of Terror,” 309 Bombay Environmental Action Group Archives Law (China), 66, 108, 111 (BEAG), 31–32 Argentina, 186, 197, 198 Bombay High Court, 31–32 argumentation, 97 Bombay Municipal Corporation, 40 Armenia, 129 Bontoc people, 254 ARTICLE 19, 134, 326 BPL. See below poverty line Arun III dam project (Nepal), 257 Brazil, 254–55, 302 Asian Development Bank, 262–63, Bulgaria, 116, 121, 125, 128–29, 265 133–34, 184; ATI laws of, 230; Eco- ATI. See access to information glasnost movement in, 291–92; ATI laws, 180–81; of Bulgaria, 230; Public Mediator in, 132; transpar- challenges to, 228–36; of Italy, ency in, 124 230; of Jamaica, 231; in Mexico, Bunker, Matthew, 228–29 190; of Netherlands, 230; of Slova- bureaucratic inertia, 323–25 kia, 230; in South Africa, 231–36, Burns, Arthur, Jr., 249–50 238; of U.S., 228 Bush administration, 13, 314, 317, 321 “audit storm,” 66 business confidentiality, 265 Audu, Abubakar, 166 Australia, 198 Calland, Richard, 11, 12, 179, 214, 338, Ayida, Allison, 169 342, 344–46 Azie, Vincent, 163–64 Cambodia, 261, 265 Campaign for the Freedom of Infor- Babangida, Ibrahim, 145–46, 150, mation (Great Britain), 207 152–53, 156 Canada, 193, 203, 226; RTI law in, Baer, Robert, 221 314; transport ministry of, 324; ballistic missile defense (BMD), 313 Treasury Board in, 206 Bank Information Center, 262 Canadian Information Commis- Basel Committee, 269 sioner, 329 BEAG. See Bombay Environmental CASS. See Chinese Academy of Social Action Group Sciences Belarus, 117 Castro, Fidel, 16n15 Belize, 185, 195, 198 CDF. See Citizen Democracy Associa- below poverty line (BPL), 41 tion—Slovakia 354 index

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