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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 November 2024. This article is a list of freedom indices produced by several non-governmental organizations that publish and maintain assessments of the state of freedom in the world, according to their own various definitions of the term, and rank countries as being free, partly free, or using various ...
The Human Freedom Index Report is an annual paper copublished by three political think tanks: The Cato Institute in the United States and the Fraser Institute in Canada. This world report is intended to gauge personal freedom across 165 countries, including economic freedom and civil liberties like religious freedom and gender equality.
The report downgraded the freedom scores of 73 countries, representing 75 percent of the global population. Those affected include not just authoritarian states like China, Belarus, and Venezuela, but also troubled democracies like the United States and India.
The report reflects investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff undertook in 2020, usually in close partnership with human rights activists in the country in questions.
EIU’s Democracy Index report analyses the relationship between democracy, war and peace and looks at the geopolitical drivers of conflict. It also provides an explanation of the changes in the global rankings and an in-depth regional overview.
Key Findings. Global internet freedom declined for the 14th consecutive year. Protections for human rights online diminished in 27 of the 72 countries covered by Freedom on the Net (FOTN), with 18 earning improvements. Kyrgyzstan received this year’s sharpest downgrade, as President Sadyr Japarov intensified his efforts to silence digital media and suppress online organizing.
No country was a democracy, and only 22 million people lived in the two countries classified as electoral autocracies: the United Kingdom and the United States. Since then, many have gained democratic political rights, especially in the second half of the 20th century.
These concerns helped Azerbaijan land on the U.S. Commission of International Religious Freedom’s 2024 “countries of particular concern” list, its designation for governments that engage in ...
This page has a list of countries by Voice and Accountability: Percentile Rank, according to officially-recognized international sources compiled by the World Bank. Voice and Accountability captures perceptions of the extent to which a country's citizens are able to participate in selecting their government, as well as freedom of expression, freedom of association, and a free media.
Other countries with a low tolerance of freedom of expression were Jordan (2.53), Pakistan (2.78), Ukraine (2.85), Vietnam (2.96), Lebanon (3.16) and Japan (3.27). It’s worth remembering that freedom of speech is enshrined in the constitution of the United States – the first amendment offers protection of public speech. The report draws the ...