On January 13, 2011, Freedom House released its findings from the latest edition of Freedom in the World, the annual survey of global political rights and civil liberties. According to the survey’s findings, 2010 was the fifth consecutive year in which global freedom suffered a decline—the longest period of setbacks for freedom in the nearly 40-year history of the report.
These declines threaten gains dating to the post–Cold War era in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the former Soviet bloc. The latest survey hightlights the increasing truculence of the world’s most powerful authoritarian regimes, which has coincided with a growing inability or unwillingness on the part of the world’s democracies to meet the authoritarian challenge.
In ASEAN, Singapore is ranked as Partly Free along with Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Some other countries also ranked Partly Free include Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan.
ASEAN countries ranked Not Free are Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and, of course, Burma.
Only one country in ASEAN is Free, and that is Indonesia.
ASIAN countries that are Free are Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India and Mongolia.
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