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Transparency for Inclusive Governance: An assessment of India
Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Report, Civil SocietyAuthor: Pranjal Sharma. The euphoria of India as a regional power has been dented by talk of systemic corruption, poor public services, nagging problems of unemployment, illiteracy and poverty and demographic challenges. Establishing a strong sense of credibility in government and the development of adequate capacity for enforcement must also be addressed to ensure the success of India’s efforts...
National Values Survey: Sri Lanka 2011
Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Report, Civil SocietySri Lanka is a multi-ethnic, multi-religious society with four major religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Roman Catholicism. As the country emerges from decades of war, new ethno-religious dynamics are emerging which have implications for peace and coexistence between communities. This survey is meant to help uncover some of those dynamics. Within this complex and evolving ethno-...
PAISA Report 2011
Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Report, Civil SocietyThe PAISA national report tracks fund flows and expenditures under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. In 2011 the survey covered 14,283 primary and upper primary schools across the country. PAISA is the first country-wide citizen-led effort to track development expenditures. The annual PAISA survey is conducted through the annual ASER survey that tracks learning outcomes. The PAISA survey is conducted...
2011 Report on Cambodian Democracy, Elections and Reform
Asia and the Pacific, Democracy, Report, Civil SocietyFollowing on the last year’s Report on Cambodian Democracy, Elections and Reform, COMFREL continues its reports, which assess the annual state of democracy in Cambodia. The annual report takes a comparative approach in asking, what changed in comparison to previous years? Did the political system of Cambodia progress toward a consolidated democracy or is stagnation or even a regression...
The Global State of Workers’ Rights: Free Labor in a Hostile World
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Europe and CIS, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Civil SocietyThe report, which examines the global state of worker and trade union rights for the year 2009, outlines serious and systematic violations of internationally recognized labor norms in every part of the world except Western Europe. Countries are ranked on a five-category scale: Free, Mostly Free, Partly Free, Repressive, and Very Repressive on a color-coded map which gives a vivid,...
Transparency International Annual Report 2009
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Corruption, Europe and CIS, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Civil SocietyTI’s 2009 Annual Report provides compelling evidence of how the global anti-corruption movement is making concrete gains against corruption. Transparency International’s 2009 Global Corruption Barometer reveals a growing distrust of business, the daily struggle of the world’s poor with petty bribery and public unconvinced of governments’ anti-corruption efforts. A global public opinion survey,...
Realising rights, protecting forests: An Alternative Vision for Reducing Deforestation: Case studies from the Accra Caucus
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Land Governance, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Civil SocietyThe Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change is a network of southern and northern NGOs representing around 100 civil society and Indigenous Peoples' organizations from 38 countries, formed at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Accra, Ghana in 2008. The Caucus works to place the rights of indigenous and forest communities at the centre of...
Getting Away With Murder: CPJ’s 2010 Impunity Index
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Justice, Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis is the third year CPJ has published its Impunity Index, which calculates the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of a country’s population. In compiling the index, CPJ examined journalist murders in every nation in the world for the years 2000 through 2009. Cases are considered unsolved when no convictions have been obtained. Only those nations with five or...
2009 Report on Cambodia Democracy, Elections, and Reform
Asia and the Pacific, Democracy, Electoral Systems, Report, Civil SocietyIn this document COMFREL reviews the current situation in Cambodia as related to democracy and elections, core freedoms, good governance, legal and judiciary reform, and describes a series of actions taken by the government and ruling party which have significantly undermined the proper functioning of democracy and its prerequisites. COMFREL calls on the Royal Cambodian Government (RGC) to...
Attacks on the Press 2009: A Worldwide Survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) provides statistics and analysis on media freedom around the world and to which extent journalists are killed, imprisoned or otherwise harassed while doing their job. It also provides country specific summaries on media freedom. The report also tries to tackle the shifting role of the media and traditional (print)...