Freedom
Moldova is partly free, according to Freedom House
January 19, 2012Chisinau/ Moldova.ORG/ -- The new report of the Freedom in the world for 2011 was recently issued. The report was released by the Freedom House headquartered in New York City. The statement proves that the “Arab spring” has inspired most...
Amnesty: Arab freedom struggle 'on knife edge'
May 13, 2011A fightback by repressive governments is putting at risk a historic struggle for freedom and justice in the Arab world, Amnesty International says. Publishing its annual report, the rights group highlights the fight for control over communications technology...
Hungarian media law further endangers media freedom
December 22, 2010Hungary's new media law violates OSCE media freedom standards and endangers editorial independence and media pluralism, Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said today. "I am concerned that Hungary's parliament has...
December 02, 2010Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms must underpin sustainable security in the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian area, emphasized the heads of OSCE institutions on human rights and democratic institutions, media freedom and national minorities...
Rangoon diary: Democracy first on Suu Kyi’s agenda for Burma
November 15, 2010This is a special report from a journalist inside Rangoon, who has been covering Burma’s political developments for VOA despite the threat of deportation. For safety reasons, the journalist’s identity is being withheld. These are the reporter...
Nemtsov Detained as Police Disperse Rallies
August 02, 2010Police arrested opposition leader Boris Nemtsov and at least 95 others on Saturday in an occasionally violent crackdown on demonstrations across Russia against restrictions on freedom of assembly. In St. Petersburg, 60 of about 200 people were detained...
Glasnost exists in Russia but Freedom of Speech doesn’t
July 27, 2010by Paul Goble Freedom of speech does not exist in Russia today, Aleksey Simonov of the Glasnost Defense Foundation says, but glasnost does – and it is not even under systematic attack because the powers that be have concluded that the mass media...
OSCE media representative condemns new sentencing of Azerbaijani journalist
July 07, 2010The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, condemned an additional jail sentence of 2.5 years handed down today to Eynulla Fatullayev, one of Azerbaijan's most prominent investigative journalists. "I am deeply disappointed...
Press freedom, globally, suffered more setbacks in 2009
April 29, 2010By Richard Solash, Nikola Krastev The world's press became less free in 2009, experiencing another year of setbacks. Among the top offenders were Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Iran, and Russia. That's according to a new report by the Washington...
Russia now caught in ‘trap of partial freedom’
March 10, 2010By Paul Goble “The level of political unfreedom in contemporary Russia is incomparably less than in the USSR,” a Moscow analyst says, but “the partial freedom” its authoritarian government does allow represents “a trap...