A/HRC/44/25 for women and young people in planning, budgeting and implementation of country team projects. 31. Several United Nations country teams have created youth advisory panels or councils to include young people in the design of policies, strategies and programmes aimed at addressing issues affecting adolescents and young people in those countries. 12 Some country teams cooperate with the private sector to support, train and empower youth refugees. 32. The United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti engaged young people, students and academics, artists and writers. It had mobile teams to discuss a broad array of political, rule of law, security, economic and social questions with rural dwellers and local civil society actors. The United Nations Mission in South Sudan organized regular national and local open days; offered awareness-raising on the frameworks for the revitalized agreement to resolve the conflict in South Sudan and for women, peace and security; and aired programmes in local languages on the Mission radio station to reach out to widest audience. 4. Civil society access to information and outreach 33. The right of access to information – a core component of the right to freedom of opinion and expression – and participation in international and regional organizations are inextricably linked, since effective participation is impossible without access to information. 13 The Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression concluded that it was not enough simply to adopt access to information policies. Such policies needed to be rigorous and principled, drawing on the broad global acceptance that the right of access to information held by public authorities is rooted in international law (A/72/350). 34. The majority of United Nations entities have policies on access to information. However, based on the mapping, it was found that, less than one third of entities clearly define any exceptions to such access and had mechanisms for civil society to contest restrictions. Despite numerous challenges and gaps, mostly related to capacity constraints, all United Nations entities utilize various channels of sharing information with civil society actors, mainly through official documents, public reports, websites, conferences, meetings, workshops, social and other media, online tools, webinars and e-platforms, newsletters and list serves, and any other communication channels, including for persons with disabilities. 35. Some United Nations entities – including the International Labour Organization, UNDP, UNEP, UNFPA, the World Bank and the World Food Programme – have publicly available policies with presumptions in favour of disclosure, and clearly define restrictions or exceptions. Most of them also provide for review or appeal procedures in case of restrictions and denials. 14 Those exceptions are made on clearly specified grounds, including: (a) Information covered by legal privilege or regulatory proceedings; (b) Information of a personal nature; (c) Agency-specific administrative information (e.g., financial and medical information, and information that is related to safety and employment) whose disclosure is likely to endanger the safety or security of an individual or the member State; 12 13 14 8 (d) Information that may violate human rights, including the right to privacy; (e) Information pertaining to ongoing judicial or prosecutorial cases. Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Cambodia, Mongolia and Nepal. See Human Rights Committee, general comments No. 25 (1996) on participation in public affairs and the right to vote and No. 34 (2011) on the freedoms of opinion and expression. The International Labour Organization has no external appeals mechanism, but specifies reasons in case of denial.