Freedom House

Stated Purpose

Freedom House is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, focused on promoting and protecting democracy in general as well as freedom of expression in particular. It does this through an array of international programmes and publications.

Country where based
United States
Organization type
NGO
Work in the area of governance assesments

Freedom House produces Freedom of the Press: A Global Survey of Media Independence.  It also publishes Freedom in the World, an annual comparative assessment of the state of political rights and civil liberties in 192 countries and 14 related and disputed territories.

Geographic scope of work
global (All regions)
Area of Governance
Democracy
Media
UNDP Support