The social investigation was conducted by Freedom House. The organization’s Freedom in the World report entitled Worst of the Worst: The World’s Most Repressive Societies 2009 enumerates the bottom 21 countries and territories with regards to repression of human freedom. Here are some of the worst of hell on earth:
North Korea is the nadir of [...]

The term Third World should not be based on any political or economic criteria. Whose arbitrary criteria are those, anyway? But there may be common characteristics today, post-Cold War, among so-called ‘Third World’ countries.
The aggregate term ‘Third World’ has come to mean:
1. The demand and receipt of foreign aid (more aptly called Western aid). Some [...]

The Tibetan leader says that persistent ‘repression’ has been ongoing for the past 50 years since the revolt. The government in Beijing described the allegation as pure humbug. Half a century after his escape from Tibet and exile in India, the Dalai Lama lashed against the government in Beijing and reported that the campaigns [...]

In Tibet, the real situation is not idyllic and allegations of repression occur almost daily. Its economy grew by 13.4% in 2006, the highest figure since 1995. In 2007, over 4 million people visited the country, and its revenues grew by 73.3% to reach 451 million euros. However, the government in exile claims that these [...]

The administrations of Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev seem to point to one and the same Kremlin principle: destroy political opponents and crush every vestige of opposition. In Russia, the opposition is maligned and persecuted. Media is censored. Critical journalists are killed or subjected to severe harassment as in the cases of Anna Politkovskaya and [...]