{"id":246552,"date":"2026-10-07T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-marks-international-day-for-universal-access-to-information\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:30:15","slug":"ghana-marks-international-day-for-universal-access-to-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-marks-international-day-for-universal-access-to-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Marks International Day for Universal Access to Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">INFORMATION, and indeed, quality information, remains at the heart of transparency and accountability in the governance ecosystem the world over. The Right to Information and perhaps, most importantly, the access to right to information therefore remains golden in the global strive for democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"73\">Proclaimed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in 2015 and adopted by the global community under the auspices of the United Nations General Assembly in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610070336.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INFORMATION, and indeed, quality information, remains at the heart of transparency and accountability in the governance ecosystem the world over. The Right to Information and perhaps, most importantly, the access to right to information therefore remains golden in the global strive for democracy. Proclaimed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[6450,258,256,7165,4508,4509,422,4337,9877,257,254,12369],"class_list":["post-246552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-day","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-information","tag-international","tag-marks","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-universal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}