التنظيم الدستوري و القانوني لحق الحصول على المعلومات في العراق

Abstract EN

The literature of human rights focus on the need of individuals to means for exercising their rights and freedom.

among those means, the obtaining of information that in possession of government agencies on the grounds that the significance of human rights is not limited to the physical nature of the body, but rather to the metaphysical nature of the soul.

between the rights of individuals to obtain such information on the one hand, and the tenacity of those agencies by blocking it for the necessities of government act on the other hand, this article examines the possibility of coexistence or dissonance between these two opposites.

in addition, it determines the area of the right of both parties, by answering the questions concerning the nature of such information, its relationship to the exercise of public rights and freedoms, and the crystallization of access to information as a right itself or subject to other rights.

moreover, the article examines the international standards, which can be relied upon to determine the amount of disclosure or blocking of such information.