The Conference agreed that the present libel laws were not the main deterrent to having more investigative reporting which was described as important to ensure accountability of public officials.

UNESCO: Education

We believe building tools to help people share can bring a more honest and transparent dialogue around government that could lead to more direct empowerment of people, more accountability for officials and better solutions to some of the biggest problems of our time.

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The report talks about a "perceived lack of accountability" for Welsh government ministers and officials to the assembly.

BBC: Senedd

"Today's ruling highlights the lack of accountability in the U.S. courts for serious crimes committed by government officials in the name of national security, such as kidnapping and torture, " said Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU Human Rights Program.

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"There has been a very quiet revolution in how the government performs its functions, " says Katherine Schinasi, one of the top officials at the Government Accountability Office.

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If a Chinese paper dwells on the names of specific officials who allowed the construction of unsafe schools, it might be scoring a point for accountability, but the investigative coup also leaves the paper vulnerable to petty political retribution.

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Since then he has set up the Ehtasab (Accountability) Commission, which is supposed to punish officials convicted of being on the take.

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But Williams brought accountability to a city where tax officials had literally left returns strewn across the basement of a city building.

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