Toby McIntosh

Toby McIntosh's blog, eyeonglobaltransparency.net, is focused on access to information at international organizations. As a former journalist, he covered Washington for almost 40 years; was editor of Freedominfo.org; and is now a senior adviser for the Global Investigative Journalism Network.

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UN Agencies Are Not Exactly Zooming Toward Open Meetings

January 25, 2021

by Toby McIntosh

WASHINGTON — With United Nations entities meeting mostly virtually in the Covid-19 pandemic, it is a good time for more of them to hold open sessions. But no transparency trend has materialized in the nearly yearlong pandemic so far. Having surveyed 27 core UN organizations to learn whether they conduct open meetings and issue …