Freedom was on the march downward in 2008, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and the former Soviet Union, a private democracy watchdog organization reports. ...more

January 12, 2009

193 Number of countries analyzed by Freedom House 89 Number of countries considered to be free in 2008 Senegal dropped from the list ...more

January 12, 2009

No other country puts as much emphasis on "freedom" as the United States. Patrick Henry demanded "liberty or death." The national anthem calls America "the land of the free." Great reformers from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King have urged America to live up to its ideal of "freedom." When a group of French Americanophiles wanted to flatter the United States, they sent the Statue of Liberty. ...more

May 18, 2008

Freedom declined in 2007 for a second consecutive year as 36 percent of the people in the world - about half of them in China - were not living in freedom, according to a survey by a private democracy watchdog organization. ...more

January 16, 2008