Network 19 is concerned about the obstacles to obtaining information from some government offices in Halabja province and calls for the removal of barriers to access to information, ensure that hiding information permitted by law, paves the way for the spread of corruption and false news.

Halwest Organization is a non-governmental organization, established in Halabja, received an official license in 2011, one of their projects is to follow up the work and activities of the local government of Halabja, monitors the level of services of offices and projects in the province.

For eight years, he has been implementing a project called (Monitoring and Evaluation of the Work and Projects of Halabja Provincial Office, General Directorates of Education, Health and Municipality) with the support of the National Organization for Democracy (NED).

There have been obstacles to a project of this organization, which is not providing information to some official institutions.

The director of Halwest told Network 19 that they have no problems with the municipality, the General Directorate of Education and the General Directorate of Electricity in the implementation of their project to monitor the offices.

"But the provincial office and the General Directorate of Health do not respond to their letters," he said.

"We have sent eight letters to the General Directorate of Health and one letter to Halabja province, but they have not responded yet," he said.

According to the Director General of Health of Halabja, the problem is in the law itself, he says: The law "Law on the Right to Information in the Kurdistan Region No. (11) of 2013" in Article 21 states:

The Council of Ministers together with the Independent Commission for Human Rights in the Kurdistan Region shall issue the necessary guidelines for the implementation of this law.

"Because the legislators knew that without the guidelines it is impossible to implement the provisions of this law, which are full of detailed and sensitive conditions regarding the secret documents and institutions cannot give to those who request and there are some requirements.

"The speaker of parliament himself, who is the legislative party, still has a video of his statement openly in parliament said: Until the government issues instructions to implement the law, we will not implement it ourselves," he said.

Zana Omar, director of information in Halabja province, told Network 19 that they have sent a letter to the Interior Ministry asking them to guide them on how to deal with the information requested by civil society organizations in general.

"We publish most of the activities, tenders and official affairs, but for some information must be in accordance with the law and we have not received instructions for this, so we have asked the Ministry of Interior," Zana said.

Network 19 announces, failure to issue directives is not an excuse to disrupt the Right to Information Law. Dozens of laws of the Kurdistan Parliament are being implemented without issuing directives.

Official documents and statistics of the Kurdistan Regional Government should be made available to citizens, media, civil society organizations and experts, so that they become partners in the process of fighting corruption.

Knowledge is an important condition for good governance. The relationship between the right to know and democracy is inseparable. Free access and dissemination of information strengthens the democratic system, and vice versa, lack of information paves the way for corruption, misrepresentation and false news.