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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…
The Ecuadorian Transparency and Access to Information Law establishes that "[a]ccess to information is a right of the person guaranteed by the State" and requires that government agencies…
This landmark legislation guarantees the Mexican public's right to request and receive information from the government. In Spanish. For an English translation, see http://www.freedominfo.org/…
To complement the qualitative information obtained from an initial, general questionnaire on "Strengthening Government-Citizen Connections", OECD launched a follow-up questionnaire to…
This report takes stock of the OECD’s thirteen years of experience working with civil society to fight corruption. The important contribution civil society organisations have made to the process…
APES is a non-profit organization of diverse mass media journalists. APES guards the freedom of press and access to information, as well as the physical integrity of journalists in the exercise of…
Council of Europe Member states should guarantee the right of everyone to have access, on request, to official documents held by public authorities. The recommendation addresses requests for access…
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,…
