Freedom House’s annual press freedom survey has tracked trends in media freedom worldwide since 1980. The survey provides numerical rankings and rates each country’s media as “Free,” “Partly Free,”…
The Tocqueville Research Center (T-RC) is a nonpartisan institute specializing in comparative political analysis at the subnational level. Its main project is the Indicators of Local Democratic…
Reporters Without Borders defends the right to inform the public and to be informed, in accordance with Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To measure the access of a country…
The purpose of the guide is to provide a user-friendly overview of internet-accessible governance indicators that have previously been developed and used by intergovernmental organizations,…
Global Barometer (GB) surveys ask what people are thinking in new democracies by interviewing nationwide representative samples in Africa, East Asia, the new post-communist Europe, and in Latin…
Formerly the European Institute for Local and Regional Development, the Centre is an interdisciplinary research and educational institution specialising in regional and local studies and policies.…
The IHF is a unique community of 42 human rights NGOs in the OSCE region, working together internationally to insist on compliance with human rights standards. Publishers of the annual report "…
Ireland's Freedom of Information (FOI) Acts 1997 - 2003, give three legal rights to those seeking access to information held by public bodies covered by the Act: the right of access to official…
These collected research reports include information on Environmental Democracy; Aarhus Convention-related Council Directives; General Environmental Reports; and the National Development Plan for…
Baltic 21 is a regional multi-stakeholder process for sustainable development initiated by the Prime Ministers from the eleven member states of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS). The Baltic…
