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• Chapter One: Introduction: A Brief Global History of the Emergence, Evolution, Development and Proliferation of Freedom of Information: Principles Definitive of Scope and Substance
• Chapter Two: Myths Surrounding Freedom of Information Laws
• Chapter Three: How FOI aids women's Empowerment and redcues Gender and Sexual Based Violence
• Chapter Four: Comparative Analysis of Freedom of Information Laws in Sierra Leone and Liberia
• Chapter Five: Sierra Leone's Resource Curse: How the Abuse of Diamonds, Politics and Power Collapsed a Nation
• Chapter Six: War, Business as Usual: The Global Scramble for Sierra Leone's Natural Resources
• Chapter Seven: Diamonds, War, Poverty and Underdevelopment: A Multidimensional Perspective on the Global Diamond Industry and its Need for Reform
• Chapter Eight: The Place of FOI in the Second Republic
• Chapter Nine: Localising Transparency and Accountability: Access to Information and Citizen Engagement Under the Local Government Act 2004
• Chapter Ten: The Effect of The EITI Process on Transparency and Accountability in Sierra Leone's Extractive Industry
• Chapter Eleven: Conclusion-- Breaking Free of the Bog: The Need for a Novel Impetus in the Implementation of the RTAI Act 2013.
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This book argues that Sierra Leone's ten-year civil conflict demonstrates the criticality of freedom of information (FOI) as a facet of good governance where corruption thrives, spanning both public and private sectors, if Sierra Leone's continued security and stability are to be ensured. It argues that it was the absence of an anti-corruption tool like FOI and its attendants, transparency, and accountability, in governance generally, and in the area of the extractive industry in particular, that lead to other social phenomena which directly sparked the war. It proffers that for the continued consolidation of peace, security, stability and development in Sierra Leone, transparency and accountability must be ensured by protecting and implementing the demand driven anti-graft FOI. Straddling the disciplines of law, political science, public policy, and history, the book's major premise is that it was the absence of FOI in the area of governance and the extractive industry, which enabled politicians, civil servants and the politically connected to ransom and exploit Sierra Leone's mineral resources for their own profit with impunity, a state of affairs which led to underdevelopment, state collapse and an embittered civil populace especially the youth. The book postulates that as such any attempt to ensure long-term peace in Sierra Leone, should seek to avoid replicating the conditions that gave rise to that gruesome conflict- elites expropriation of national resources through endemic graft. The book proposes the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Right to Information Act 2013.
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• Foreword by the editors
• General introduction
• Status of religious communities
• Relations betwee the State and Islam
• State support for Islamic religious communities
• Muslims in integration law
• Mosques and prayer houses
• Burial and cemeteries
• Education and schools
• Chaplaincy and freedom of religion in public institutions
• Employment and social rights
• Islamic ritual slaughter and food-related regulations
• Islamic goods and services
• Islamic dress
• Criminal law
• Family law.

This volume of Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe covers Finland and consists of an annotated collection of legal documents affecting the status of Islam and Muslims. The legal texts are published in the original Finnish language while the annotations and supporting material are in English. By legal documents are meant the texts of legislation, including relevant secondary legislation, as well as significant court decisions. Each legal text is preceded by an introduction describing the historical, political and legal circumstances of its adoption, plus a short paragraph summarising its content. The focus of the collection is on the religious dimensions of being Muslim in Europe, i.e. on individuals' access to practise their religious obligations and on the ability to organise and manifest their religious life.
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