Research Guides
Access to Information as a Human Right: Core Documents
United Nations
- Universal Declaration of Human RightsArticle 19, United Nations, 1948
Council of Europe
- Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental FreedomsEuropean Convention on Human Rights, 1950
Organization of American States
- American Convention on Human RightsArticle 13, Organization of American States, 1969
United States
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)1966 (amended 1996, 2007)
- Federal Advisory Committee Act(5 U.S.C. App), 1972
- Privacy Act(5 .S.C. ยง),1974
- Government in the Sunshine ActPublic Law 94-409, 1976
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt with the Spanish text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.