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Freedom House Urges Rice to Appoint Special Envoy to UN Human Rights Council

May 24, 2006
Freedom House sent a letter today to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, urging the US government to immediately appoint a special representative to serve as an envoy to the recently established UN Human Rights Council.
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Revised Saudi Government Textbooks Still Demonize Christians, Jews, Non-Wahhabi Muslims and Other

May 23, 2006
Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom today released a report analyzing a set of Saudi Ministry of Education textbooks in use during the current academic year in Islamic studies courses for elementary and secondary students. The textbooks promote an ideology of hatred toward people, including Muslims, who do not subscribe to the Wahhabi sect of Islam.
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Freedom House Applauds Nigerian Senate Decision to Throw Out Re-Election Bill

May 18, 2006
Freedom House applauds the Nigerian Senate's decision to reject a bill that would have amended the Constitution to allow President Olusegun Obasanjo to seek a third four-year term.
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Freedom of Expression Under Siege in Kyrgyzstan

May 8, 2006
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has not met his pledge to enact far-ranging media reforms, including the privatization of state-owned media, the conversion of state television to public television, and a new media law, Freedom House asserted today.
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Encuesta de Freedom House muestra una disminucion importante de la libertad de prensa en Mexico y America Latina en el 2005

May 3, 2006
La libertad de prensa sufrio importantes retrocesos en America Latina en general y Mexico en particular durante el 2005. Asi lo muestra la encuesta global sobre Libertad de Prensa elaborada por Freedom House y dada a conocer el 27 de Abril recien pasado.
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Freedom House Reports Little Progress on Armenian Reforms

May 2, 2006
Freedom House will address Armenian parliamentarians to release the findings of its annual Nations in Transit survey focusing on the "Practice vs. Promise" of democratic governance in Armenia during the past year.
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Press Under Threat in Key Asian, African countries, Study Finds; Longer-Term Pattern of Decline Noted in Latin America and Former Soviet Union

April 27, 2006
Press freedom suffered setbacks in a number of important countries in Asia and Africa in 2005, including some that had previously registered improvements, according to a major study released today by Freedom House. The most significant declines occurred in Asia (East Timor, Nepal, the Philippines, and Thailand), Africa (Uganda, Botswana, and Ethiopia), and the former Soviet Union (Russia and Uzbekistan).

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