Outcome Process Structural Table 10 Access to information Special duties and responsibilities • Date of entry into force and coverage of legislation on access to information • Date of establishment of an independent monitoring mechanism (e.g., information commissioner) • Date of entry into force and coverage of statistical legislation to protect independence and quality of official statistics • Time frame and coverage of national policy to promote access to information technology • Date of entry into force and coverage of domestic law prohibiting propaganda for war • Date of entry into force and coverage of domestic law(s) prohibiting advocacy of national, racial, religious or sexist hatred constituting incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence • Reported cases of non-disclosure of documents, archives and administrative or corporate data of public interest (e.g., justice records, arms exports, environmental data, asylum seekers) • Proportion of different linguistic population groups having access to media broadcasts in their own language • Number of journalists and any other media persons who reported sanctions, political or corporate pressure for the publication of information • Proportion of victims of libel, defamation or slander who received compensation and rehabilitation • Proportion of judicial actions on alleged libel, defamation and slander investigated and resulting in conviction • Proportion of judicial actions against propaganda for war investigated and resulting in conviction • Proportion of (quasi-)judicial actions against advocacy of national, racial, religious or sexist hatred investigated and resulting in conviction * MDG-related indicators All indicators should be disaggregated by prohibited grounds of discrimination, as applicable and reflected in metadata sheets • Reported cases of killing, disappearance, detention and torture against journalists, human rights defenders or any other persons who exercised their right to freedom of expression, perpetrated by an agent of the State or any other person acting under its authority or with its complicity, tolerance or acquiescence, but without any or due judicial process (e.g., reported to United Nations special procedures) • Proportion of information requests by the media responded to effectively by the Government • Subscriptions and average daily sales of national and main regional newspapers • Proportion of population with access to TV and radio broadcasts • Number of personal computers in use with Internet access per 100 population* • Number of Internet domains registered per 1000 population • Number of newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV broadcasts, Internet sites by ownership (public or private) and audience figures • Number of mergers or acquisitions by media companies investigated, adjudicated and refused by an independent competition commission in the reporting period • Number of newspapers, articles, Internet sites and other media broadcasts closed or censored by regulatory authorities • Proportion of complaints filed by journalists or any other media persons investigated, adjudicated and approved by courts or other competent mechanisms • Number of media institutions of ethnic, linguistic minority and religious population groups recognized or given public support • Proportion of requests for holding demonstrations accepted by administrative authorities • Proportion of schools engaged in “active learning”, giving children the opportunity to express themselves freely • Proportion of received complaints on the right to freedom of expression investigated and adjudicated by the national human rights institution, human rights ombudsperson or other mechanisms and the proportion of these responded to effectively by the Government • Proportion of communications from the special rapporteurs (e.g., Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of expression) responded to effectively by the Government • Date of entry into force and coverage of legislation for the protection of the freedom of the media, including decriminalization of libel, defamation and slander • Date of entry into force and coverage of domestic law for the protection and safety of journalists and any other media persons, including protection against disclosure of sources • Date of entry into force and coverage of domestic law for equal opportunity of access to radio concessions and TV broadcast frequencies • Time frame and coverage of national policy on education for all, including provisions for temporary special measures for target groups, human rights curricula and “active learning” • International human rights treaties relevant to the right to freedom of opinion and expression (freedom of expression) ratified by the State • Date of entry into force and coverage of the right to freedom of expression in the constitution or other forms of superior law • Date of entry into force and coverage of domestic laws for implementing the right to freedom of expression, including availability of judicial review of any decision taken by the State to restrict it • Number of registered and/or active NGOs (per 100,000 persons) involved in the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of expression • Date of entry into force and coverage of code of conduct/ethics for journalists and other media persons Freedom of opinion and to impart information The right to freedom of opinion and expression (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 19) IV. >> Illustrating the Framework - Indicators for Some Rights Human Rights Indicators 97