News & Reports

There are significant discrepancies in protection for the right to information (RTI) in two countries in the Caribbean region. The RTI Rating found that the Cayman Islands’ Freedom of Information Law scored comparatively well, with 112 points out of a possible score...

Across the country, Canada’s access to information systems have been stagnating for years with laws that are decades old and hopelessly out of touch with international standards. On June 1, Newfoundland and Labrador broke away from the pack, enacting Canada’s first...

Tanzania: Analysis of Right to Information Bill The Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD) has prepared an analysis of Tanzania’s draft Access to Information Act, which was released by the government recently. The draft Act follows up on the Tanzanian government’s...

Access Info Europe and the Centre for Law and Democracy launched a report providing an analysis of the results and trends in the global RTI Rating. A major finding of the report is that as international standards have developed laws have got stronger. At the same...

In September 2014 CLD released an Analysis of the draft Kenyan Freedom of Information Bill, 2014, using the RTI Rating. Although the draft is relatively robust, scoring 105 points, it is significantly weaker than the version which was proposed in 2012. Click here to...

Today, Access Info Europe (AIE) and the Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD) launched an improved version of the RTI Rating website. The new website contains updated results on all 93 countries with national right to information laws, searchable on various parameters,...