Freedom House

Freedom House is a partly government-funded American pressure group in the Wilsonian tradition, which advocates the global spread of democracy, and sees it as the historical task of the United States to further this goal. It is best known for its annual assessment of the degree of democratic freedoms in each country. The organisation was founded by Wendell Wilkie and Eleanor Roosevelt in 1941, describes itself as "a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world". It is a purely American organisation, with offices in New York City and Washington, DC, and it is non-partisan in the American sense, meaning it does not identify with either the Republican or the Democratic parties.

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Pressure group - Wilsonian - Democracy - United States - Wendell Wilkie - Eleanor Roosevelt - 1941 - New York City - Washington, DC - Republican - Democratic

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Freedom House says of itself that it "has vigorously opposed dictatorships in Central America and Chile, apartheid in South Africa, the suppression of the Prague Spring, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, and the brutal violation of human rights in Cuba, Burma, China, and Iraq. It has championed the rights of democratic activists, religious believers, trade unionists, journalists, and proponents of free markets.".

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Central America - Chile - Apartheid - South Africa - Prague Spring - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - Bosnia - Rwanda - Cuba - Burma - China - Iraq

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During the 1940s, Freedom House supported the Marshall Plan and the establishment of NATO. During the 1950s and 1960s, it supported the U.S. civil rights movement. During the 1980s, it supported the Solidarity movement in Poland and the democratic opposition in the Philippines.

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1940s - Marshall Plan - NATO - 1950s - 1960s - U.S. civil rights movement - 1980s - Solidarity - Poland - Philippines

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