Crime Resources

In this page, investigative journalists will find links to international databases, reports, and data that are helpful when covering crime. This table was created by GIJN Staff in 2019 and was updated in July 2022 by ELli Zotou and GIJN’s Resource Center Director, Nikolia Apostolou.

Pandemic Accelerates Global Decline in Digital Freedom

In this edition of Document of the Day, we feature a new report out today from Freedom House, a US-based think tank, about how the coronavirus pandemic has affected digital freedoms around the world. The report includes details on governments’ actions that have curtailed citizens’ access to open information on the web, and the website features and interactive map where users can see which countries made the “free” list and which ones didn’t.