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Community of Democracies Urged to Support Strong Candidates for UN Human Rights Council

April 11, 2006
Freedom House, together with the Democracy Coalition Project and the Transnational Radical Party, sent a letter today to member countries of the Community of Democracies, urging them to elect only those countries that support and promote human rights to the UN Human Rights Council.
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Annual Democracy Report an Improvement This Year

April 5, 2006
Freedom House noted with interest the just-released report, Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2005 - 2006, issued by the Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. The report is an improvement over previous iterations, but it still lacks a sense of clear U.S. strategy towards the expansion of freedom around the world, Freedom House said today.
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President Bush Discusses Democracy with Freedom House

March 30, 2006
On March 29, 2006, President George W. Bush addressed assembled Freedom House Trustees, staff and supporters at the mid-point of a daylong conference convened by Freedom House on the state of democracy in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Freedom House to Hold Major Conference on Democracy in Africa

March 28, 2006
On Wednesday, March 29, 2006, Freedom House will host Africa at the Crossroads: Assessing Strategies for Democratic Reform, a conference examining the continent's democratic development and identifying strategies to assist with further political reform.
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Rice Urged to Announce US Candidacy for New Human Rights Council

March 28, 2006
A coalition of leading American human rights and democracy promotion NGOs, including Freedom House, has appealed to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to announce the United States' candidacy for a seat on the newly created UN Human Rights Council.
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European Election Monitoring Organization Says Ukrainian Elections Fair, Despite Organizational Challenges

March 27, 2006
ENEMO's observation of Ukraine's pre-election period and Election Day on March 26 has shown significant improvements from the 2004 presidential elections, with Ukrainian voters able to exercise their right to vote freely.
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Freedom House Calls Belarus Election a Sham

March 17, 2006
An intensified government crackdown of opposition voices in Belarus over the past two weeks strongly demonstrates that Sunday's presidential elections will not be genuine, Freedom House said today.

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