In the 2011 Freedom House Freedom of the Press report, Belarus scored 92 on a scale from 10 ( most free ) to 99 ( least free ), because the Lukashenko regime systematically curtails press freedom.

The US Library of Congress Federal Research Division reported it in 2006 as having generally good freedom of speech and human rights records, while Freedom House listed it as " free " in 2011, giving it scores of 2 for political rights and 2 for civil liberties.

In acknowledgment of this, Freedom House granted Cape Verde two 1s in its annual Freedom in the World report, a perfect score.

As of 2008, Comoros and Mauritania are considered by US-based organization Freedom House as the only real “ electoral democracies ” of the Arab World.

According to Freedom House, in 2007 there were 123 electoral democracies ( up from 40 in 1972 ).

At the same time liberal democracies i. e. countries Freedom House regards as free and respectful of basic human rights and the rule of law are 85 in number and represent 38 percent of the global population.

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National elections held on 13 May 2001 returned Berlusconi to power at the head of the five-party center-right " Freedom House " coalition, comprising the prime minister's own party, Forza Italia, the National Alliance, the Northern League, the Christian Democratic Center, and the Democrats ' Center Union.

The " Freedom in the World " index, a measure of political rights and civil liberties published by Freedom House, judged Maldives as " not free " until May 1, 2009, when it was raised to " partly free ".

* Mali ( 2007 ): Freedom House report.

* Freedom House Country Report on North Korea

Notably, as First Speaker of the House, Jaja Wachuku received Nigeria's Instrument of Independence-also known as Freedom Charter-on October 1, 1960, from Princess Alexandra of Kent, The Queen's representative at the Nigerian independence ceremonies.

Image: President Reagan presents Mother Teresa with the Medal of Freedom 1985. jpg | President Ronald Reagan presenting Mother Teresa with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony in 1985

Image: Walesa and Santorum. jpg | Lech Wałęsa presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony in 1989

File: Barack Obama speaks to Stephen Hawking. jpg | President Barack Obama talks with Stephen Hawking in the Blue Room of the White House before a ceremony presenting him and 15 others the Presidential Medal of Freedom, August 12, 2009.

*" President Bush Honors Medal of Freedom Recipients ", a news release from the White House Press Secretary, December 15, 2006, containing a transcript of President George W. Bush's opening remarks at the December 15, 2006, presentation ( with link to individual citations ).

* " Medal of Freedom Ceremony " ( August 12, 2009 ), a news release, August 12, 2009, from the White House Press Secretary at whitehouse. gov, the White House's official website.

Freedom House, an international organisation funded by the United States, ranks Russia as " not free ", citing " carefully engineered elections " and " absence " of debate.

Russian authorities dismiss these claims and especially criticise Freedom House.

The ministry also claims that such organisations as Freedom House and Human Rights Watch use the same scheme of voluntary extrapolation of " isolated facts that of course can be found in any country " into " dominant tendencies ".

However, Bulgaria ranks 51st in the Ease of Doing Business rank list, higher than most other Eastern European states, and 28th in the Economic Freedom of the World index, outperforming the Netherlands and South Korea.

In his autobiography, Freedom In Exile, he states that if Tibet is not free, he " will reincarnate elsewhere.

Tax Freedom Day varies among the 50 U. S. states, as incomes and state & local taxes differ from state to state.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act ( RFRA ) in 1993 allowed the use of peyote in religious ceremony but in 1997, the Supreme Court ruled that the RFRA was unconstitutional when applied against states.

Freedom House states that it:

The group states that during the 1940s, Freedom House supported the Marshall Plan and the establishment of NATO.

Freedom House also states that it was highly critical of McCarthyism.

It states " In Jordan, Freedom House worked to stem violence against women ; in Algeria, it sought justice for victims of torture ; in Uzbekistan, a brutal dictatorship, it sought to defend human rights advocates ; in Venezuela, it worked with those seeking to protect and promote human rights in a difficult political environment.

Freedom House states that its Board of Trustees is composed of " business and labor leaders, former senior government officials, scholars, writers, and journalists ".

ADF states that " he goal of Pulpit Freedom Sunday is simple: have the Johnson Amendment declared unconstitutional – and once and for all remove the ability of the IRS to censor what a pastor says from the pulpit.

In the 1997 case of City of Boerne v. Flores, the Court again took a narrow view of the Congressional power of enforcement, striking down a provision of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ( RFRA ) that sought to forbid the states from placing burdens on religious practice in the absence of a compelling state interest in doing so.

A Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information report states that handwriting analysis without informed consent is a privacy violation.

Freedom of information in the United States refers to the independent bodies of Freedom of information legislation at the federal level and in the fifty states.

For example, all states of the United States have laws governing access to public documents of state and local taxing entities, in addition to that country's Freedom of Information Act which governs records management of documents in the possession of the federal government.

Article 20 of the 1947 Constitution states, " Freedom of religion is guaranteed to all.

Notably, Skinner himself characterized his views as anti-reductionist: in Beyond Freedom and Dignity and other works ( e. g. About Behaviorism and chapter 19 of Verbal Behavior ), he wrote that while mental and neurological states did exist, behavior could be explained without recourse to either.

The application of the Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA ) in certain states in the United States has made certain performance data more readily available.

The Peace and Freedom Party ( PFP ) is a nationally-organized political party with affiliates in more than a dozen states, including California, Florida, Colorado and Hawaii.

Gregory appeared on the ballot in several states as the Peace and Freedom Party candidate as well as in New York and New Jersey as the candidate of the Freedom and Peace Party.

By the October 2003 National Convention, the Reform Party had only begun rebuilding, but several former state organizations had elected to rejoin now that the interference from the Freedom Parties was gone. They increased their ranks from 24 to 30 states, and managed to retrieve ballot access for seven of them.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation ( FFRF ) is a national, non-profit organization based in Madison, Wisconsin, with members from all 50 states.

In 1965, The Roman Catholic Church Vatican II Council issued the decree Dignitatis Humanae ( Religious Freedom ) that states that all people must have the right to religious freedom.