The development of the right of access to official information in Latin America according to the case law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Abstract

This text is a descriptive analysis of the declaration of principles of the information access rights formulated by the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States, based on the case law of the Inter-American Human
Rights Court, which were consolidated into the Model Inter-American Law on Access to Public Information, namely: the concept of the right to information; the scope of the right to information; proactive disclosure, administrative request; limits on information access; demonstrating fulfillment of the prerequisites for denying information access; administrative proceedings; penalties under administrative and criminal law; promoting and implementing the right to information.