Right to Information

Liliana Lyra Jubilut

Chapter 85 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law, 2025, pp 496-502 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The right to information is a human right with a dual nature, being, at the same time, a stand-alone and an instrumental right to the achievement of other rights. It has been established in international human rights law mainly through the protection of freedom of expression, and developed in its facet of access to information held by public entities. It relates to broader topics such as democracy, safety and peace, and it faces challenges in terms of its implementations and new issues of communication such as fake news and disinformation. For migrants, besides its guarantee as a human right, the right to information is ascertained in international migration law norms, is an objective and a transversal topic of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, and is approached through a human rights–migrants’ rights lens, exemplifying the architecture of integral protection.

Keywords: Right to information; Freedom of expression; Access to information; Human rights; Migrants; Migration; Global Compact for Safe Orderly and Regular Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802204148
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