Draft Punjab Freedom of Information Act

Seminar

Past Event

Feb 28, 2014 - 4:00 pm |

Feb 28, 2014 - 6:00 pm

Mr. Toby Mendel, Mr. I A Rehman, Mr. Intikhab Hanif, Dr. Ali Cheema, Mr. Rashed Rehman, Mr. Khurram Raza and will be chaired by Mr. Abdullah Sumbal, Secretary Information, Govt. of Punjab

FCC Lahore

Upcoming Event

Mr. Toby Mendel is the Executive Director of the Centre for Law and Democracy, a Canadian based international human rights NGO that focuses on providing legal expertise regarding foundational rights for democracy, right to information, freedom of expression, right to participate and the right to assembly and association. He has also served for 12 years as Senior Director for Law at ARTICLE 19, human rights NGO and has provided expertise to World Bank, various UN and other intergovernmental bodies and numerous NGOs in other countries. Mr. Mendel has worked as human rights consultant with Oxfam Canada and as a human rights policy analyst at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

Mr. Mendel has published on a range of freedom of expression, right to information, communication rights and refugee issues, including comparative legal and analytical studies on public service broadcasting, the right to information and broadcast policy.