Academic International
Africa
Africa Freedom of Information Centre, The State of the Right of Access to Information in Africa, 2017
Abuya, Edwin, Towards Promoting Access to Information in Kenya, African Network of Constitutional Lawyers, 2011
Adeleke, Fola, The Case for Corporate Transparency in Africa, undated
African Women’s Development and Communication Network, Freedom of Information and Women’s Rights in Africa, 2009
Article 19, "Who wants to forget?" Truth and Access to Information about past Human Rights Violations, undated
Brobbey, Victor & others, Active and Passive Resistance to Openness: The Transparency Model for Freedom of Information Acts in Africa - Three Case Studies
Centre for International Private Enterprise, Freedom of Information and Transparency in Egypt, 2010
Darch, Colin & Underwood, Peter, Struggles for Freedom of Information in Africa, 2010
Human Rights Network Uganda (HURIENT-U), An analysis of laws inconsistent with the right of access to information, 2010
Kamba, Manir Abdullahi, Access to information: The dilemma for rural community development in Africa, 2011
Killander, Magnus Confidentiality versus publicity: Interpreting article 59 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 2006
Media Institute of Southern Africa, Government Secrecy in an Information Age: A report on open and secretive public institutions in southern Africa, 2010
Media Institute of Southern Africa, 2011 Reports on the Most Open and Secretive Public Institutions in Southern Africa (Lesotho), 2011
Media Institute of Southern Africa, So This is Democracy? State of Media Freedom in Southern Africa, 2010
Media Rights Agenda, Windows for Transparency – Ghana, 2010
Media Rights Agenda, Windows for Transparency – Liberia, 2010
Media Rights Agenda, Windows for Transparency – Nigeria, 2010
Media Rights Agenda, Windows for Transparency - Sierra Leone, 2010
Memeza, Mzi, An analysis of weaknesses in access to information laws in SADC and in developing countries, Freedom of Expression Institute, 2006
Memeza, Mzi, Baseline report on the state of access to information in SADC, Freedom of Expression Institute, 2005
Sendugwa, Gilbert, Legislating and Implementing Public Access to Information in Africa: What are the Incentives for Government and Civil Society Actors?, undated
International
Access Info Europe, Access to Information: A fundamental right, a universal standard, 2006
Ackerman, John M & Sandoval-Ballesteros, Irma E, The Global Explosion of Freedom of Information Laws, Administrative Law Review, 2006
Article 19, The Public's Right to Know: Principles on Freedom of Information Legislation, 1999
Article 19, Changing the Climate for Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, 2009
Banisar, David, Freedom of Information Around the World 2006: A Global Survey of Access to Government Information Laws, Privacy International, 2006
Beukes, Margaret The recognition of a right of access to government-held information by an international tribunal and the role of non-governmental organisations in the occasion : foreign judicial decisions, 2006
Calamard, Agnes, Towards a Third Generation of Activism for the Right to Freedom of Information, Article 19, 2008
Centre for Law and Democracy, Open Government with RTI? The conspicuous weakness of RTI reform within OGP action plans, 2012
Centre for Law and Democracy, A truly World-Wide Web: Assessing the Internet from the Perspective of Human Rights, 2012
Centre for Law and Democracy, Entrenching RTI: An analysis of Constitutional Protections of the Right to Information, 2012
Centre for Law and Democracy & Indonesian Center for Environmental Law, Interpretation of Exceptions to the Right to Information: Experiences in Indonesia and Elsewhere, 2012
Centre for Law and Democracy, Openness Polices of the International Financial Institutions: Failing to Make the Grade with Exceptions, 2012
Centre for Law and Democracy & Access Info Europe, Global Right to Information Rating, (updated at regular intervals)
Coliver, Sandra, The Right to Information and the Increasing Scope of Bodies Covered by National Laws since 1989,Open Society Justice Initiative, 2009
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Our Rights Our Information: Empowering people to demand rights through knowledge, 2007
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Open Sesame: Looking for the Right to Information in the Commonwealth, 2003
Darbishire, Helen, Proactive Transparency: The future of the right to information?, World Bank Institute, Governance Working Paper Series, Access to Information Program
Lidberg, Johan, 'Keeping the Bastards Honest' - The Promise and Practice of Freedom of Information Legislation, PHD Thesis for Murdoch University, Australia, 2006
Mendel, Toby, Amending Access to Information Legislation: Legal and Political Issues, World Bank Institute, Governance Working Paper Series, Access to Information Program, 2011
Medel, Toby, Freedom of Information: A Comparative Legal Survey, second edition, UNESCO, 2008
Peled, Roy & Rabin, Yoram, The Constitutional Right to Information, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Volume 42(2) 2010