More than £200,000 of British aid went on encouraging the introduction of freedom of information laws in Bangladesh. 

The Telegraph report: 

DfID defended spending on encouraging foreign governments to develop freedom of information laws.

“The evidence shows that when ordinary people get access to information, they can and will hold those in power to account,” a spokesman said.

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Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.