Raw country-by-country figures can be misleading: the population-weighted results published by Freedom House are more informative.
In its press-freedom index, Freedom House ranks Belarus 188th out of 195 countries.
Singapore was ranked 153rd globally in terms of press freedom by Washington-based advocacy group Freedom House in a recent report.
Freedom House, which monitors democracy and other civil liberties, puts America at a more flattering 17th place in its latest press-freedom survey.
Sherif Mansour, Freedom House's regional senior program manager, says he recommended that the local activists use Skype because he believed it was more secure than email.
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The growing use of English courts by foreign litigants is arousing increasing concern among free-speech campaigners such as Chris Walker of Freedom House, an American lobby group.
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Thanks in no small measure to Mr. Robinson's educational efforts on this front -- and those of others like Dr. Paul Marshall of Freedom House and Brian Kennedy of the Claremont Institute, who appeared with him at the JLAC hearing -- investors have begun to "vote with their feet" by divesting equity holdings in such companies.
There's degrees and there's got to be a halfway house between freedom of the press and freedom of speech, and the right to a person's private life and privacy.
Small companies should exploit this freedom, building in-house marketing and distribution and diversifying overseas.
The head of Mr Berlusconi's People of Freedom Party in the upper house of parliament, Maurizio Gasparri, said he would sue the magazine's editor over comments he made in a newspaper interview.
The justice on Tuesday received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama in a White House ceremony.
Jeffords' move could doom a major piece of House legislation, the Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act of 2001, which would allow the Bells to offer high-speed Internet access without first opening their markets to local competition.
And despite the rather short notice, the BBC World Service's Director, Peter Horrocks, took a lead by asking participants in a seminar on media freedom held on May 4th in Bush House, in central London, to stand for a minute's silence.
The Okadas, who gave Mr. Nakayama almost complete creative freedom, confessed they initially worried that the house might be too small, but say they've come to love it.
But imagining that I would one day stand in the Rose Garden of the White House and receive the Medal of Freedom from an American President, that was certainly beyond even my wildest dreams.
The irony is that Obama arrives at the threshold of the White House steeped in ideas that subordinate individual freedom to the collective.
There have been dramatic fashion statements recently as well, including a one-shoulder Michael Kors gown she wore to host a White House ceremony to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Israeli President Shimon Peres.
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Philosophically, America's Commission on International Religious Freedom (a bipartisan body that advises Congress and the White House) is in step with the Obama mood.
And Jane Kinninmont, a Bahrain expert and senior research fellow at London's Chatham House, has argued that it is not just freedom of association that is under threat.
The fact that the Labour and Liberal tribes are now agreed on a programme of constitutional change--including reform of the House of Lords, Scottish and Welsh devolution, and a freedom of information act--may help with voters, since the endorsement makes John Major's denunciations of constitutional change seem merely hysterical.
But Essam Erian, a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and leader of the majority party in Egypt's upper house of Parliament, criticized the proposed boycott.
Washington (CNN) -- The Polish prime minister on Wednesday reacted strongly to what the White House said was a mistake by President Barack Obama during a Medal of Freedom ceremony.
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"I was trying to juggle being a mum and look after two children and a house but also we needed to do so much to get Danny's freedom, " the 38-year-old said.
They never saw a chance to escape over the last 10 years until this week when Amanda Berry broke through a door and ran to freedom, alerting police who rescued the other two women while Castro was away from the house.
Obama's rationale, that "our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable, " seems utterly irrelevant to the issue of why the proposed Cordoba House should be constructed at Ground Zero.
The Brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, won more than 40% of the seats in Egypt's lower house of Parliament in recent elections.
Lord Owen does not think the bill should be passed until the House of Lords have had "at the very least" a chance to debate the freedom of information ruling that a document called NHS Transitional Risk Register should be disclosed.
On Tuesday, he gave evidence to a House of Commons committee on open government in support of the government's proposals for a freedom-of-information act.
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