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Today, We Are All Journalists

Chris DeVito | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Iran Human Rights, Human Rights, Internet-Crackdown, Internet Freedom, Citizen Journalism, Middle East, Press Freedom, World Press Freedom Day, Iran, Iran Press Freedom, Journalism, Freedom House, Video, World News

It's time to start paying attention to what can be done to both reduce the dangers of reporting and increase, if not simply safeguard, basic freedoms. This is important on all days, but especially today, World Press Freedom Day.

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United States Drops In Another Press Freedom Index Over Occupy Arrests

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street Media, Occupy Wall Street Journalists, Freedom House, Freedom of the Press 2012, Occupy Wall Street Arrests, Occupy Wall Street, Media News

The United States has dropped slightly in a newly released press freedom index, thanks to the treatment of journalists covering the Occupy movement. ...

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Conversation With Jaida Im of Freedom House

Nicki Richesin | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Jaida Im, San Francisco News, Human Trafficking San Francisco, Sex Trafficking, California Human Trafficking, San Francisco, Freedom House, Human Trafficking, Freedom House California, Freedom House Gala, San Francisco Impact, San Francisco News

Survivors of human trafficking are modern day slaves living without freedom. They are kept in bondage. Even when they are rescued from their perpetrators, they are not truly freed since they have nowhere to turn to for help.

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Egypt NGO Crisis: Rep. Ackerman Calls For A Softer Approach To Egypt's Military Regime

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Michele Dunne, Egypt, Rep. Gary Ackerman, Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, International Republican Institute, Egypt Military Regime, Freedom House, Scaf, Egypt Ngo Crackdown, World News

WASHINGTON -- When an Egyptian military delegation abruptly halted its official visit to the United States earlier this month, amid a furious uproar o...

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Which Countries' Freedoms Changed The Most In 2011?

Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Worldwide Freedom, Video, Arab Spring, Freedom Index, Arab Spring Freedom Index, Arab World Freedom, 2012 Freedom, 2012 Freedom Index, Freedom House, World News

2011 was an impressive year for democratic developments across the world. Protests rocked countries such as Chile, Russia, China and Bahrain, and demo...

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The Arab Spring a Year Later -- a Democratic Scorecard

Alan Elsner | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Russia, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, Democracy, Arab Spring, Eastern Europe, Libya, Lebanon, Freedom House, World News

Democracy is much more than just holding free and fair elections. It has to be underpinned by a civil society governed by the rule of law and supported by a politically neutral civil justice system free of corruption.

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Debating Press Freedom in Egypt, and Everywhere Else

Maurice Chammah | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Censorship, Egypt Protests, The Guardian, Yosri Fouda, Freedom of the Press, Big Six, Journalism, Egypt Revolution, Egypt, Al Ahram, Press Freedom, Media, Freedom House, Sam Zell, Media News

Freedom is not condensible. It's a complex mixture of history and the personal experiences of journalists themselves, who in countries both "free" and "not free" exercise varying degrees of self-censorship for varying reasons.

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The Least Free Countries In The World

Posted 09.02.2011

Read More: Libya, Worldwide Human Rights, Least Free Countries in the World, Human Rights, Sudan, Least Free Countries, Myanmar, Tibet, Freedom House, World News

As Americans are set to celebrate their country's independence and all the freedoms that come with it, citizens around the world suffer brutal repress...

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Report Finds Mexico And Egypt No Longer Have A Free Press

AP | By BARRY SCHWEID | Posted 07.01.2011

Read More: Egypt Press, Mexico Journalism, Mexico Press, Free Press, Egypt Journalism, Egypt, Mexico, Free Journalism, Journalism, Freedom House, World News

WASHINGTON -- Mexico can no longer be considered to have a free press because of the threats and violence associated with drug trafficking, but an eig...

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Internet Freedom Threatened By New Restrictions

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Open Internet, Internet Kill Switch, Internet Freedom, Web Censorship, Internet Censorship, Freedom House, Web Freedom, Technology News

Freedom on the worldwide Internet is in danger, according to a new report by Freedom House. In a survey of 37 countries, only 8 qualified as having...

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Blasphemy Resolution Passes U.N. Committee

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Religion News, Religion, International Religion, General Assembly, U.N., United Nations, Religious Freedom, Blasphemy Resolution, International Law, Blasphemy, Freedom House, Uscirf, Religion News

Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service A resolution combating the "vilification of religions" was adopted Tuesday by a United Nations committee, but r...

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U.S. Activists Lobby Against U.N. Religious Defamation Resolution

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Nations, Blasphemy Laws, Organization of Islamic Conference, Un Blasphemy Proposal, Freedom of Expression, Religious Freedom, New York Catholic League, Defamation of Religions, US State Department, Bill Donohue, Freedom House, UN General Assembly, Religion News

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Religious freedom advocates are urging members of the United Nations to vote against the la...

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Remembering Serbia's Nonviolent Victory

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

In the United States, the first week of October passed by without much fanfare. However, for about 10 million Serbian citizens, it was a time to celeb...

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Workers' Rights Around The World: Freedom House Report (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freedom House Report, Trade Unions, Slidepollajax, Employees' Rights, Labor Laws, Freedom House, Workers' Rights, Labor Unions, International Labor Laws, World News

The U.S. has a more restrictive stance towards workers' rights than Western Europe, Canada and even Israel, according to a new report. The report, r...

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World's Worst Human Rights Violators: Freedom House Report (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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A new report by the Washington-based watchdog Freedom House has identified nine countries and one territory as being the world's worst human rights ab...

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Kazakhstan Eyes Failing Grade at Mid-Term

Sam Patten | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Evgeniy Zhovtis, Freedom House, Krygyzstan, World News

Unless the Kazakhs start showing a little more respect for the democratic institutions the OSCE was conceived to support, lending credibility to their summit hardly sends the right message.

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Global Freedom Falls For Fourth Straight Year, Report Says

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Think Tanks, Freedom of the Press, Slideshow, World Freedom, Civil Liberties, Freedom in the World, Political Freedom, Freedom House, Civil Rights, Freedom in the World 2010, World News

According to a report published by Washington D.C. based think-tank Freedom House, global declines in freedom have outweighed gains for the fourth yea...

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Roxana Saberi is Released While Other Journalists Languish in Iran's Prisons

Nioucha Homayoonfar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Roxana Saberi, Iran, Omidreza Mirsayafi, Freedom House, Zahra Kazemi, World News

As the Saberi case ends on a high note, we shouldn't forget the hundreds of other journalists who bravely continue to exercise their right in expressing themselves despite this brutal regime.

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The Freedom Stagnation

Arch Puddington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, George Bush, Zimbabwe, World, George W. Bush, Democracy, Ukraine, Freedom House, Freedom of Speech, Communism, Bush Administration, Counterterrorism, Egypt, Freedom, President Bush, China, Cuba, Soviet Union, World News

Early 2005 marked the culmination of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the most significant and largely nonviolent protest movements that succeeded in supplanting corrupt and autocratic governments in the former Soviet Union.

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