Afghan Biographies

Access to Information Commission (AIC)


Name Access to Information Commission (AIC)
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History and Biodata

Oversight on Access to Information Commission:
Access to Information Commission (AIC) which is established under the 2018 Access to Information Law has 5 permanent commissioners, appointed for up to 5 years (as of 20190106):
Mrs. Najiba Maram,
Ainuddin Bahadury,
Hamdullah Arbab, a country’s leading painter and commissioner of the Access to Information Commission, survived an explosion in Kabul (20201004)
Mrs. Zahra Musavi,
Mrs. Fazul Bari Baryali.

Background:

Sayed Ikram Afzali, chairperson of the Oversight Commission on Access to Information (OCAI), who formally handed over responsibility to the five newly appointed AIC commissioners, stated that during the last three years (2016-2018)  the Commission had organized several awareness campaigns, had held dozens of workshops, facilitated the creation of over 50 Public Information Offices in government agencies in Kabul, had drafted a five-year strategy and had amended the Access to Information Law bringing it up to global standards. The Oversight Commission on Access to Information (OCAI) which was established under the 2014 law had 13 ad-hoc Commissioners.

Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) said the new Access to Information Commission (AIC) worked under government’s influence. (20200206)



Sayed Ikram Afzali, former Acting Director (20181231)
 

Ainoddin Bahadori

Noor Wali Khan

Danish Karokhel

Abdul Shokoor Dadra

Mohammad Faheem Dashty

Aziz Faizy

Mrs. Najiba Moram

Mrs. Hawa Alam Nooristani

Sultan Ahmad Fazli, Representative from NDS

Mohammad Qayum Ebrahimi

 
 

Background:

15 eligible individuals, 5 of them are introduced as new members of the Access to Information Commission. The five members are Bahaduri, Zahra Mousawi, Hamdullah Arbab, Najiba Muram and Fazl Bari Baryalai. Three of them were appointed for a period of 5 years and remaining two of them were appointed for three years.(20181231)

Sayed Ikram Afzali, chairperson of the Oversight Commission on Access to Information (OCAI), who formally handed over responsibility to the five newly appointed AIC commissioners, stated that during the last three years (2016-2018)  the Commission had organized several awareness campaigns, had held dozens of workshops, facilitated the creation of over 50 Public Information Offices in government agencies in Kabul, had drafted a five-year strategy and had amended the Access to Information Law bringing it up to global standards. The Oversight Commission on Access to Information (OCAI) which was established under the 2014 law had 13 ad-hoc Commissioners.

Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) said the new Access to Information Commission (AIC) worked under government’s influence. (20200206)

Last Modified 2020-10-04
Established 2018-12-31