{"id":962,"date":"2012-08-27T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=962"},"modified":"2012-12-05T12:02:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:02:46","slug":"political-rights-and-civil-liberties-around-the-world-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/political-rights-and-civil-liberties-around-the-world-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Rights and Civil Liberties Around the World for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/world-freedom-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-967\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/world-freedom-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/world-freedom-map.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/world-freedom-map-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/world-freedom-map-424x300.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>2011 and 2012 have been years full of changes in the level of political rights and civil liberties around the world, primarily due to the Arab uprisings. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomhouse.org\/sites\/default\/files\/FIW%202012%20Booklet_0.pdf\">Freedom House<\/a>, an organization that\u00a0supports democratic change, monitors freedom, and advocates for democracy and human rights around the world, has identified which countries have improved and which countries have declined in their level of freedom. The Freedom House Index (FHI) designates countries and territories included in the index as &#8220;free&#8221;, &#8220;partly free&#8221;, and &#8220;not free&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As shown in the map above, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Burma are among the countries that have improved the most, while Ecuador, Sudan and Yemen are among the worst performers.<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Political Rights and Civil Liberties Around the World for 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/political-rights-and-civil-liberties-around-the-world-for-2012\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Political Rights and Civil Liberties Around the World for 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/political-rights-and-civil-liberties-around-the-world-for-2012\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Political Rights and Civil Liberties Around the World for 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/political-rights-and-civil-liberties-around-the-world-for-2012\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Political Rights and Civil Liberties Around the World for 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/political-rights-and-civil-liberties-around-the-world-for-2012\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 and 2012 have been years full of changes in the level of political rights and civil liberties around the world, primarily due to the Arab uprisings. Freedom House, an organization that\u00a0supports democratic change, monitors freedom, and advocates for democracy and human rights around the world, has identified which countries have improved and which countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Political Rights and Civil Liberties Around the World for 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/political-rights-and-civil-liberties-around-the-world-for-2012\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Political Rights and Civil Liberties Around the World for 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/political-rights-and-civil-liberties-around-the-world-for-2012\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Political Rights and Civil Liberties Around the World for 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/political-rights-and-civil-liberties-around-the-world-for-2012\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Political Rights and Civil Liberties Around the World for 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/political-rights-and-civil-liberties-around-the-world-for-2012\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,494,92,32,19,30],"tags":[330,337,329,333,1371,335,331,332,1370,328,334,1372,281,336],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}