Emerging Democracies and Freedom of Information

Contents:
Introduction / Barbara Turfan
Emerging democracies and freedom of information: keynote address / Russell Bowden
Writers and governments: the work of International and National PEN / Anne Chisholm
Article XIX as a campaigning organization / Catherine Drucker
Library Association and freedom of information / Runnalls Davis
Visit to a new Malawi, July 1994 / Paul Sturges
IFLA Conference 1994, Havana: implications for Cuban library and information science / Russell Bowden
Sound of silence: self-censorship and the threat to the free dissemination of information in Hong Kong / Colin Storey
Abuse of human rights in China and the media / Bing Sum Lao
On Russian publishing / Vladimir V. Spiridonov
Developments in library information services and access to information in the Baltic states since renewal of independence / Inese A. Smith
Library Association and Latvia and Estonia / Philip G. Gill
British Council's role in library development in Poland during the period of transition / Runnalls Davis
Libraries and access to information in Bulgaria / Ivor Kemp
Freedom of information returns to the Czech Republic / Sylva Simsova
Freedom of expression of a divided people: the case of the Albanians / Isa Zymberi
War, politics and the media in the Transcaucasus / Tamara Dragadze
La question democratique en Azerbaidjan et au Turkmenistan / Semih Vaner
Islam and Democracy: the question of political obligation in contemporary Muslim society / M. Naim Turfan
Freedom of information in Nigeria / Gboyega Banjo
Dictatorship in the garb of democracy / Shiraz Durrani
State of ambivalence: the case of freedom of information in South Africa / Christopher Merrett
Conclusion / Barbara Turfan.