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…
Greenpeace is a non-profit organisation, with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. Greenpeace of the USSR was organized in 1989 in the time of '…
The purpose of the guidance note is to provide UNDP country offices with guidance they can draw on and use in discussions with government counterparts and other stakeholders to promote the…
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…
IFAI is the Mexican organization in charge of: 1) guaranteeing the public right of access to the governmental public information 2) protecting personal data that are into the hands of the federal…
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…
