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Archive for the ‘Think Tank Reports’ Category

"Crackdown was the word of the year in 2011"; US drops 20 positions in Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index, 2011/2012 Rankings

02 Feb

In the press release for its annual ranking of countries based on an assessment of country-by-country freedom of the press track records, Reporters Without Borders reports: This year’s index sees many changes in the rankings, changes that reflect a year…

 

Law School Transparency’s Class of 2010 Placement Data Disclosure Findings Raise Red Flag on Need for Oversight

24 Jan

From the Executive Summary of the Winter 2012 Transparency Index Report (January 2012) by Law School Transparency: As a new year unfolds and the debate about legal education reform continues, efforts in furtherance of law school transparency remain critical. While…

 

TRUSTe’s 2011 Website Privacy Index

07 Jan

From the press release: In the 2011 Website Edition of its Privacy Index, TRUSTe analyzed the privacy policies of the top 100 U.S. websites (as ranked by Alexa Sept. 2011) to evaluate privacy practices by measuring key policy attributes, as…

 

Progress of the World’s Women: UN Report on Achieving Women’s Equality is a Fundamental Human Right and a Social and Economic Imperative

16 Jul

From the foreword of UN Women’s Progress of the World’s Women 2011–2012: In Pursuit of Justice by Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women: As the first major UN Women report, this edition of Progress of the World’s…