Recommended Readings
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- "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 - A Model Freedom of Information Law
Article XIX 2001 - 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 - Access to Information Laws: Pieces of the Puzzle. An Analysis of the International Norms
Neuman, L. 2010 - available in es - Access to Information. The key to Democracy
Carter Center 2002 - available in es - Access to Information: An Instrumental Right for Empowerment
Article XIX & ADC 2007 - Background paper: The role of the free press in promoting democratization, good governance, and human development
Pippa Norris 2006; 26 p. - Budgeting Implications for ATI Legislation
Alfonso Hernández-Valdez, Access to Information Working Paper Series, World Bank
2009 - Enforcement Models. Content and Context. Access to Information Working Paper Series. Washington, DC: World Bank
Neuman, L. 2009 - Freedom of expression, access to information and empowerment of people Berger, Guy 2009; 107 p. ;
CI.2008/WS/11; CI/FED/2009/RP/1 - Freedom of Information (FOI) & Women’s Rights in Africa
Hambuba, Carlyn; Kagoiya, Rachel 2009; 106 p., map - Freedom of Information Around the World. A Global Survey of Access to Government Information Laws. - London: Privacy International
Banisar, D. 2006 - 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 - 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 - Overview of all 90 FOIA countries & territories
Vleugel, R. 2009 - Ten Principles on the Right to Know
Justice Initiative 2010 - The Public's Right to Know. Principles on Freedom of Information Legislation
Article XIX 1999 - 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 - The Right to Information in Latin America: A Comparative Legal Survey Mendel, Toby 2009; 176 p. ; EC/2008/CI/PI/13
- Using the Right to Information as an Anti-Corruption Tool, Transparency International
Kocaoglu, N. Figari, A. and Darbishire, H. (Eds.) 2006 - “A Great and Revolutionary Law? The First Four Years of India's Right to Information Act”
Roberts, A. 2010 - “Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age”
Roberts, A. 2006 - “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