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• The Right to Information and Privacy: Balancing rights and managing conflicts
  Banisar, D. , 2011
• “A Great and Revolutionary Law? The First Four Years of India's Right to Information Act”
  Roberts, A. , 2010
• Advancing Access to Information Principles through Performance Management Mechanisms: The Case of Canada
  Thomas, P. , 2010
• Proactive Transparency: The future of the right to information? A review of standards, challenges and opportunities
  Darbishire, H. , 2010
• Access to Public Information and Citizen Participation in Supreme Audit Institutions (SAI): Guide to Good Practices
  Nino, E. , 2010
• Access to Information and Transparency in the Judiciary: A Guide to Good Practices from Latin America
  Herrero, A. and Lopez, G. , 2010
• Legal Leaks Toolkit: A Guide for Journalists on How to Access Government Information
  Access Info and n-ost, 2010
• Global Right to Information Index
  Article 19, 2010
• Ten Principles on the Right to Know
  Justice Initiative 2010
• RTI Legislation Rating Methodology
  Access Info Europe and the Centre for Law and Democracy, 2010
• Access to Information Laws: Pieces of the Puzzle. An Analysis of the International Norms
  Neuman, L. 2010 - available in es
• Model Inter-American Law on Access to Information
  Organization of American States, 2010
• The Right to Information for Marginalized Groups: The Experience of Projecto Comunidades in Mexico, 2005-2007. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
  Guerrero Amparán, J. and M. Sepúlveda Toledo 2010
• Overview of all FOI Laws
  Vleugels, R. , 2012
• Freedom of Information (FOI) & Women’s Rights in Africa
  Hambuba, Carlyn; Kagoiya, Rachel
  2009; 106 p.
• Access to Information Laws Implementation Assessment Tool
  Carter Center, 2009
• "Exploring the Role of Civil Society in the Formulation and Adoption of Access to Information Laws. The Cases of Bulgaria, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the United Kingdom", Access to Information Working Paper Series. Washington DC: World Bank
  Puddephat, A. 2009
• Budgeting Implications for ATI Legislation
  Alfonso Hernández-Valdez, Access to Information Working Paper Series, World Bank
  2009
• A Shock to the System: Journalism, Government and the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Working Paper, The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
  Hayes, J. 2009
• Enforcement Models. Content and Context. Access to Information Working Paper Series. Washington, DC: World Bank
  Neuman, L. 2009
• Freedom of information: a comparative legal survey
  Mendel, Toby
  2008; 164 p. ; CI-2007/WS/15
• Implementing Access to Information: A practical guide for operationalising access to information laws, Revised Edition, CHRI
  Mitra, R., Ferguson, J. & Nayak, V. (Eds.) 2008
• Impact of Right to Information on Development: A Perspective on India’s Recent Experiences
  Lecture by M. M. Ansari, Indian Information Commissioner, May 15th 2008, Paris, 2008
• Access to Information: An Instrumental Right for Empowerment
  Article XIX & ADC 2007
• Legal Protections and Barriers on the Right to Information, State Secrets and Protection of Sources in OSCE Participating States. - London: Privacy International
  Banisar, D. 2007
• Our Rights Our Information. Empowering People to Demand Rights Through Knowledge - CHRI
  Daruwala, M. & Nayak, V. (Eds.) 2007
• “Future Challenges for the RTI Movement,” Keynote speech to the Fifth International Conference of Information Commissioners, Wellington, New Zealand, 27 November 2007
  Roberts, A. 2007
• “Journalists’ use of the UK Freedom of Information Act”, in Open Government: a journal on Freedom of Information, Volume 3, issue 1, 24 April
  Holsen, S.; MacDonald, C. and Glover, M. 2007
• "Making the Law Work: The Challenges of Implementation”, originally published in Florini, A. (ed.) The Right to Know: Transparency for an Open World. New York: Columbia University Press
  Neuman, L. and Calland, R. 2007
• “The uncertain relationship between transparency and accountability,” Development in Practice, Vol. 17, No.4-5
  Fox, J. 2007  
• “Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age”
  Roberts, A. , 2006
• Background paper: The role of the free press in promoting democratization, good governance, and human development
  Pippa Norris 2006; 26 p.
• Using the Right to Information as an Anti-Corruption Tool, Transparency International
  Kocaoglu, N. Figari, A. and Darbishire, H. (Eds.) 2006
• Freedom of Information Around the World. A Global Survey of Access to Government Information Laws. - London: Privacy International
  Banisar, D. 2006.
• Access to Information. The key to Democracy
  Carter Center 2002 - available in es
• A Model Freedom of Information Law
  Article XIX 2001
• The Public's Right to Know. Principles on Freedom of Information Legislation
  Article XIX 1999
• Model Law on Access  to Information for Africa
  African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 2013
• Global Right to Information Index
  Article 19, 2010
• African Platform on Access to Information
  Pan African Conference on Access to Information, Cape Town, 19 September 2011
• Brisbane Declaration “Freedom of Information: The Right to Know”
  Adopted at UNESCO´s World Press Freedom Day 2010, Brisbane, Australia
• Access to information legislation implementation assessment tool
  Carter Center, 2009
• Implementing Right to Information. Lessons from Experience.
  Donkeniya, A. World Bank, 2013

See also, related country studies focused on Albania , India, Mexico , Moldova, Peru, Romania, Uganda, United Kingdom

• List of Countries with Access to Information (ATI) Provisions in their National/Federal Laws or Actionable Decrees, and Dates of Adoption & Significant Amendments
  Open Society Justice Initiative, 2013
• Vers un droit d'accès à l'information publique au Maroc
  Canavaggio, P. and Balafrej, A., UNESCO, 2011
• RTI Rating Data Analysis Series: Overview of Results and Trends
  Centre for Law and Democracy & Access Info Europe, 2013
• Global Right to Information Update: An Analysis by Region
  FOIANET, 2013

Experts Meeting Freedom of Information and Sustainable Development, Sealing the Link; 2008; Paris

• Final report
  Millet, Caroline, 2008; 26 p.
• Meeting Report - Annex I: Concept Paper
  2008; 8 p.
• Meeting Report - Annex II: Agenda
  2008; 3 p.
• Meeting Report - Annex III: Challenges for advocacy and implementation of Laws
  Fadope, Cece, 2008; 2 p.
• Meeting Report - Annex III: Facilitating access to information in post-Soviet countries
  Richter, Andrei, 2008; 4 p.
• Meeting Report - Annex III: Is the environment protected under the ECHR ?
  Flores, Virginie, 2008; 2 p.
• Meeting Report - Annex III: Lessons learned in the implementation of FOI legislation in developing countries
  Saba, Roberto, 2008; 4 p.