Everyone has the right to seek, receive and impart information. (Article 19, Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
The right to access to information is an integral part of the right to freedom of expression.
Ethiopian Constitution, Article 29
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression without any interference.
This right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kind regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any media of his choice.