International Articles

Publications and Articles

See Member States for country-specific articles.

General

• Publish what you fund (2010) Aid Transparency Assessment
• SAHR & CHRI (2010) Transparency in Parliament - A Review of the Procedures and Practices in South Asia'
• CHRI (2010) A Comparative Picture of Independent Appellate Mechanisms Available Across the Commonwealth, Venkatesh Nayak.
• ActionAid and CHRI (2008) The Governance Link, Information Access and People's Power, Issue 5, November 2008.
• Anders Chydenius Foundation (2006) The World's First Freedom of Information Act - Anders Chydenius's Legacy Today.
• Transparency International (2006) Using the Right to Information as an Anti-Corruption Tool.
• Publish What You Pay (2006) Eye on the EITI.
• Global Transparency Initiative (2006) Behind Closed Doors: Secrecy in International Financial Institutions.
• Global Transparency Initiative (2006) Assessing World Bank Openness: A Transparency Scorecard, September.
• The Open Society Justice Initiative (2006) Transparency and Silence - a survey of access to information laws and practices in 14 countries.
• Global Transparency Initiative (2006) Transparency Charter for International Financial Institutions.
• The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (2006) Final Report of the International Advisory Group.
• Rebecca Carr (2006) Overhaul of Freedom of Information Act stalled, The Austin-American Statesman, 6 August.
• European Information Service (2006) Transparency drive extends to EU structural funds, 2 August.
• Bretton Woods Project (2006) European CSO open statement on governance reform of the IMF, 17 July.
• David Banisar (2006) Freedominfo.org's Global Survey of Freedom of Information Laws for 2006 current to July 2006.
• Jimmy Carter (2006) We need fewer secrets, Washington Post, 3 July.
• Coalition of Journalists for Open Government (2006) Frequent Filers: Businesses Make FOIA Their Business, 3 July.
• UNDP and UN Office of the High Representative for Least Developed Countries (2006) Governance for the Future: Democracy and Development in LDCs.
• (2006) International Non-Government Organisation Charter.
• CHRI (2006) Letter urging the UNDP to adhere to its Information Disclosure Policy, 27 June.
• UNDP (2006) UNDP and the Right to Information - Seminar Report, 22-23 May 2006 with annex 3 background paper and annexes 3, 4 and 5.
• Charmaine Rodrigues (2006) Promoting Public Accountability in Overseas Development Assistance, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, April.
• Misha and Shekhar Singh (2006) Transparency and the Natural Environment, Economic and Political Weekly, 15 April.
• Ackerman and Sandoval-Ballesteros (2006) The Global Explosion of Freedom of Information Laws, Administrative Law Review, Vol. 58 No. 1, Winter.
• UNDP Democratic Governance Group (2006) A Guide to Measuring the Impact of Right to Information Programmes - Practical Guidance Note.
• (2006) TI Anti-Corruption Handbook (ACH): National Integrity System in practice.
• Toby Mendel (2005) Parliament and Access to Information: Working for Transparent Governance, World Bank Institute and Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
• (2005) Handbook: An Introduction to Openness and Access to Information.
• ODAC (undated) Public Accountability and Multilateral Governance: Challeges for the African Region.
• Charmaine Rodrigues (2004) The Right To Information: The Key To Deepening Democracy And Development, paper submitted to the CPA Annual Meeting, Toronto, 6 September.
• UNDP (2004) Access to Information Literature Review (a list of useful right to information articles, resources and links), current to July 2004.
• Paul Uhlir (2004) Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Governmental Public Domain Information
• David Banisar (2004) The FREEDOMINFO.ORG Global Survey: Freedom of Information and Access to Government Records Around the World, current to 12 May 2004.
• CHOGM Report (2003) Open Sesame : Looking for the Right to Information in the Commonwealth
• Toby Mendel (2003) Freedom on Information: A Comparative Legal Survey (analyses laws in India, Pakistan, South Africa, the United Kingdom and others), Article 19.
• David Goldberg (2002) Advocating for the Right to Information - The Swedish "Oddity"?, CHRI.
• David Banisar (2002) Freedom of Information: International Trends and National Security, Geneva, 3-5 October.
• Thomas Blanton (2002) "The World's Right to Know", Foreign Policy.
• Article 19 (2001) Submission To The High-Level Review Group On The Future Of The Commonwealth: Focus On Freedom Of Information.
• First Amendment Centre and American Society of Newspaper Editors (2001) Freedom of Information in the Digital Age.
• Robert Martin and Estelle Feldman (1999) Access to Information in Developing Countries, a study prepared for Transparency International.
• (1998) Report of the Working Group on Transparency and Accountability.

Regional

• The Carter Centre (2010) Africa Regional Findings and Plan of Action for the Advancement of the Right of Access to Information, Accra, Ghana.
• CHRI (2006) Recommendations for Strengthening the EBRD's Public Information Policy Implementing Procedures.
• Global Transparency Initiative (2006) Briefing note on the EBRD Public Information Policy, 6 December.
• OSJI, Access Info Europe and Article19 (2006) Briefing regarding the elaboration of a Council of Europe Treaty on Access to Official Documents, November.
• ARTICLE 19 (2006) Checklist for the Implementation of Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression in Africa, 6 November.
• Imran Ali (2006) The Right to Information, Fiji Times, 14 August.
• Pacific Media and Communications Facility (2006) Information Disclosure Toolkit.
• Pacific Media and Communications Facility (2006) Pacific Information Disclosure Policies.
• Firoze Manji (2006) Improving compliance with African Treaties - conclusions of a civil society workshop held in Banjul, The Gambia, 26-28 June 2006, African Monitor, 29 June.
• CPA and CHRI (2006) Report on Freedom of Information Workshop for Pacific MPs, 1-2 September 2005, Nadi Fiji.
• The Pacific Media and Communications Facility (2005) Informing Citizens: Opportunities for Media and Communications in the Pacific, June.
• CPA and CHRI (2005) Conclusions from Freedom of Information Workshop for Pacific MPs, 1-2 September 2005, Nadi Fiji.
• Charmaine Rodrigues and Indra Jeet Mistry (2005) Entrenching Good Governance & Sustainable Development by Promoting ICT Strategies Based On The Right to Information, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative.
• ODAC (undated) Public Accountability and Multilateral Governance: Challeges for the African Region.
• Justice Initiative (2004) Access to Information Still Hard to Get in Five Countries, Results of the Open Society Justice Initiative Access to Information Monitoring Tool.
• Deepika Mogilshetty (2003) Access to information: A comparative overview of laws in India and Pakistan, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative.
• Kati Suominen (2002) Access to Information in Latin America and The Carribean a project of the Inter-American Dialogue.
• Professor Dan Paterson (2000) "Legal Challenges for Small Pacific Jurisdictions in Relation to Privacy, Freedom of Information and Access to Justice", 4 Journal of South Pacific Law 4.
• Evan Ruth (2000) Freedom of Information in Southern Africa, Article 19.
• Edetaen Ojo (2000) Information and Power in an African Context.
• Article 19 (1999) The Public's Right to Know: Principles on Freedom of Information Legislation.
• Seyoum Hameso (1995) Politics of freedom of information in Africa.

Legislation issues

• Douglas Lewis (2003) The Need and Value of Access to Information from Non-State Agencies.
• (1996) Is Public Access to Civil Service Policy Advice Possible?, Proceedings of a seminar held at the Royal United Services Institute, London, 5 March 1996, organised by the Campaign for Freedom of Information.

Whistleblower protection

Kirstine Drew (2003) Whistleblowing and corruption: An initial and comparative review, paper supported by Unicorn: A global trade unions anti-corruption project.

Professional Employees Network (2003) The Need for "Whistleblower" Protection in the Legislation Governing the Federal Public Service, Submission to the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates on Bill C-25, Ottawa, March 25 2003.

Sheryl Groeneweg (2001) Three Whistleblower Protection Models: A Comparative Analysis of Whistleblower Legislation in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, Research Directorate, Public Service Commission Canada.