Freedom House

You do not have to agree with Freedom House's precise methodology to agree that the autocrats have had the upper hand.

The fact that Freedom House has devoted so much attention to the United States is significant in its own right.

In its annual report in January, Freedom House, an American think-tank, rated Indonesia the only "free" country in South-East Asia.

Freedom House is an independent nongovernmental organization that supports the expansion of freedom around the world.

Raw country-by-country figures can be misleading: the population-weighted results published by Freedom House are more informative.

Freedom House, an American think-tank, says that the media and religious institutions have come increasingly under attack.

The U. S. -based human rights group Freedom House has named nine countries and Tibet as the world's most flagrant human rights abusers.

At least in the eyes of the world, Freedom House and HRW come from slightly different places.

Imprisonment can be imposed for "spreading false information or insulting public officials" , Freedom House reports.

Freedom House is a Washington based "watchdog organization that supports the expansion of freedom around the world" .

David Kramer, head of the U. S. -based nonprofit group Freedom House, said that may change with Mr. Putin's formal return.

It wasn't all good news for the country, however, and Freedom House did point to a decline in media freedom.

On the bright side, Freedom House found improvements for Kenya, Moldova, Nigeria, the Philippines and Tanzania.

The group Freedom House notes that in Kuwait, women have won the right to vote.

Freedom House cited slight improvements, however, in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Sudan and Mauritania.

Freedom House's new publication will be an important contribution to this process of self-correction.

Freedom House, an American-based lobby group, talks of "the most significant backslide in Hungary's democratic development since 1989" .

The globalization of censorship represents a growing threat to freedoms of expression and the press, Freedom House says.

Of course, not all the targets of Freedom House's ire will feel embarrassed by their low scores.

And although the watchdog group Freedom House ranks Benin as free, it ranks Pakistan as only partly free.

Freedom House, an organization in Washington, released a "Freedom on the Net" report in April.

Freedom House's rankings for countries in Western Europe remained fairly stable.

Korea scores the same as Japan in the democracy tally kept by Freedom House, a think-tank in Washington, DC.

Japan, another American ally, has also struggled to keep up its grades at Freedom House.

Freedom House may well be right that democracy is on the back foot right now. In the longer run, its appeal is undiminished .

The South African panel regulating the industry acts with autonomy, according to Freedom House research.

Among other trends cited by Freedom House is the role of organized crime.

In Africa, Freedom House found significant declines in the level of press freedom.

Freedom House's strictures are, if anything, too soft.

When America attacked Iraq in 2003, Freedom House wished the campaign well.

A new study by Freedom House tries to answer this question.

So where exactly does Freedom House come from?

Turkish emblems on Freedom House.

And, according to Freedom House, an American NGO, an increasing number are unfree.

Last year was the second in a row when liberty, as defined by Freedom House, inched back.

Freedom House, a Washington-based advocacy group, last year ranked Singapore 151st in the world in press freedom, behind Liberia and Iraq.