January 12, 2010
Freedom in the World 2010 Survey Release
On January 12, Freedom House released its findings from the latest edition of Freedom in the World, the annual survey of global political rights and civil liberties. According to the survey’s findings, 2009 marked the fourth consecutive year in which global freedom suffered a decline—the longest consecutive period of setbacks for freedom in the nearly 40-year history of the report. These declines were most pronounced in Sub-Saharan Africa, although they also occurred in most other regions of the world. Furthermore, the erosion in freedom took place during a year marked by intensified repression against human rights defenders and democracy activists by many of the world’s most powerful authoritarian regimes, including Russia and China. Freedom in the World 2010 reflects developments that took place in the calendar year 2009. The full survey, including the individual country reports, will be available in late spring 2010.
July 17, 2009
Freedom in the World 2009 is out now
Full country reports from the 2009 edition of Freedom in the World, Freedom House's annual survey of political rights and civil liberties, are now available online.
July 21, 2009
Worse is not better
Andrew Apostolou for the Washington Times
More than a million Iranians recently took to the streets to decide who should run their country. In America and Israel, however, some security officials and experts prejudged that struggle, preferring Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to remain as president even before the votes were cast in the Iranian election.
Those who supported the re-election of the president, such as Meir Dagan, the head of Israel's Mossad, or the American analyst Daniel Pipes, are not apologists for the Islamic Republic. Rather, they are staunch opponents of the mullahs' regime who found themselves comforted by an Ahmadinejad administration for supposedly hardheaded, nonemotional, pragmatic reasons.
Those who supported the re-election of the president, such as Meir Dagan, the head of Israel's Mossad, or the American analyst Daniel Pipes, are not apologists for the Islamic Republic. Rather, they are staunch opponents of the mullahs' regime who found themselves comforted by an Ahmadinejad administration for supposedly hardheaded, nonemotional, pragmatic reasons.
