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the indivisibility and universality of human rights: ( P. P. Popovic (ed);O. V. Vieira (ed) / Sur - International Journal on Human Rights , 2008); This issue of the Sur Journal on International Human Rights presents a number of papers which critically revisit two issues initially raised 60 years ago by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: ...
Multiple dimensions of measuring progress: ( Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2007); This document presents proceedings of the OCED’s second World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies.’ The proceedings, in wh...
Access to information: NGOs lag behind: ( H. Kovach;C. Neligan;S. Burall / World Trade Organization , 2003); This report compares the accountability of inter-governmental organizations (IGOs), transnational corporations (TNCs) and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It assesses 18 of the wor...
Full democracies, flawed democracies and hybrid regimes: ( L. Kekic / Economist Intelligence Unit , 2008); This document describes the Economist Intelligent Unit’s index of democracy. This index is based on view that measures of democracy that reflect the state of political freedoms and civil liberti...
A review of the state of global human rights: ( Amnesty International , 2009); The Amnesty International Report 2009 is a record of the state of human rights during 2008, in 157 countries and territories around the world. It depicts the systemic discrimination and insecurity tha...
Unbundling key governance concepts: ( D. Kaufmann / , 2003); This discussion reviews key issues in worldwide governance, and presents recent empirical evidence....
Uses and abuses of governance indicators: ( C. Arndt;C. Oman / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2008); Some international organisations, and most prominently the World Bank, play a leading role, both in the supply and use of cross-country governance ratings. This paper explains:...
Ranking peaceful countries: ( Vision of Humanity , 2008); The Global Peace Index (GPI) 2008 ranks nations based on their relative states of peace. Covering 140 countries, the GPI brings a snapshot of relative peacefulness among nations while continuing to co...
World economic freedom advances steadily: ( K.R. Holmes;E.J. Feulner;M.A. O’Grady (ed) / University of Bologna , 2008); This is the 14th edition of The Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom. The objective of the Index is to catalogue economies in a quantitative and rigorous manner. Yet the I...
What does World Governance Assessment offer?: ( G. Hyden;K. Mease;M. Foresti / Overseas Development Institute [ES] , 2008); This report introduces the basic features of the World Governance Assessment (WGA) and highlights main findings of the second round of WGA that was conducted in 10 countries in the global South during...