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Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs,talk.politics.misc
From: noah@pixar.com (Little Red Rooster)
Subject: HUMAN-FREEDOM INDEX {Was: Wise Words} {LONG}
Message-ID: <1994Oct31.210832.334@pixar.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 21:08:32 GMT
"The United States ranks 13th on the Human Freedom Index. Twelve
other countries are freer than the United States." -United Nations
This quote generated alot of questions, the main one being "What are
the other twelve countries?"
I contacted the United Nations Development Programme, Human Development
Report Office at, (212)983-1531, and asked Selim Jahan that question. He
sent me this fax:
________________________________________________________________________
The human freedom index
The goal of human development is to increase people's choices. But for
most people to exercise their choices, they must enjoy freedom - cultural,
social, economic and political.
The _World Human Rights Guide_, by Charles Humana, uses 40 indicators to
measure freedom:
_The right to_
* travel in own country
* travel abroad
* peacefully associate and assemble
* teach ideas and recieve information
* monitor human rights violations
* ethnic language
_The freedom from_
* forced or child labour
* compulsory work permits
* extra-judicial killings or "disappearances"
* torture or coercion
* capital punishment
* corporal punishment
* unlawful detention
* compulsory party or organization membership
* compulsory religion or state ideology in schools (see: D.A.R.E. -Noah)
* arts control
* political censorship of press
* censorship of mail or telephone-tapping
_The freedom for_
* peaceful political opposition
* multiparty elections by secret and universal ballot
* political and legal equality for women
* social and economic equality for ethnic minorities
* independent newspapers
* independent book publishing
* independent radio and television networks
* independent courts
* independent trade unions
_The right to_
* a nationality
* being considered innocent until proved guilty
* free legal aid when necessary and counsel of own choice
* open trial
* prompt trial
* freedom from police searches of home without a warrant
* freedom from arbitrary seizure of personal property
_The personal right to_
* interracial, interreligious or civil marriage
* equality of sexes during marriage and for devorce proccedings
* homosexuality between consenting adults
* practice any religion
* determine the number of one's children
Drawing on the 1985 data in the _World Human Rights Guide_ and assigning
a "one" to each freedom protected and a "zero" to each freedom violated,
the country ranking in table 1.5 emerges. Clearly, this ranking for the
human freedom index (HFI) needs updating. Adding recent infromation for
only one of the 40 aspects of fredom - multiparty elections by secret and
universal ballot - makes for many changes. Eighteen countries see their
HFI improve.
The world today is a freer world. An updated human freedom index based
on a limited number of observable and objectively measurable key indicators
is more than overdue.
________________________________________________________________________
TABLE 1.5
HFI ranking of selected countries
Country total ^ Recent move
of freedoms, towards greater freedom
1985 (multiparty elections held)
________________________________________________________________________
High freedom ranking (31-40) / Low freedom ranking (0-10)
38 Sweden /10 Poland (^)
38 Denmark /10 Paraguay (^)
37 Netherlands /10 Philippines (^)
36 Finland /10 Tanzania, U. Rep. of
36 New Zealand / 9 Malaysia
36 Austria / 9 Zambia
35 Norway / 9 Haiti (^)
35 France / 8 Yugoslavia
35 Germany, led. Rep. of / 8 Chile (^)
35 Belgium / 8 Kuwait
34 Canada / 8 Algeria (^)
34 Switzerland / 8 Zimbabwe
33 USA / 8 Kenya
33 Australia / 8 Cameroon
32 Japan / 7 Hungary (^)
32 United Kingdom / 7 Turkey
31 Greece / 7 Morocco
31 Costa Rica / 7 Liberia
/ 7 Bangladesh (^)
Medium freedom ranking (11-30) / 6 German Dem. Rep. (^)
30 Portugal / 6 Czechoslovakia (^)
30 Papua New Guinea / 6 Saudi Arabia
29 Italy / 5 Mozambique
29 Venezuela / 5 Cuba
27 Ireland / 5 Syrian Arab Rep.
26 Spain / 5 Korea, Dem. Rep. of
26 Hong Kong / 5 Indonesia
26 Botswana / 5 Viet Nam
25 Trinidad and Tobago / 5 Pakistan (^)
25 Argentina (^) / 5 Zaire
25 Jamaica / 4 Bulgaria (^)
24 Ecuador / 3 USSR (^)
23 Senegal / 3 South Africa (I'll put a "^" because
21 Panama (^) of their recent move
21 Dominican Rep. toward democracy -NK)
19 Israel / 2 China
18 Brazil (^) / 2 Ethiopia
18 Bolivia / 1 Romania (^)
16 Peru / 1 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
15 Mexico / 0 Iraq ("DOH!" -Homer Simpson)
14 Korea, Rep. of
14 Colombia (I'll add a "^" because
of their effort to
decriminalize drugs -Noah)
14 Thalland
14 India
14 Sierra Leone
13 Nigeria
13 Benin (^)
11 Singapore (He, he, oh, sorry -Noah)
11 Sri Lanka
11 Tunisia
11 Egypt
11 Ghana
Note: Ranking of countries with the same degree of freedom is done in
accordance with HDI ranking.
_______________________________________________________________________
Well, there you have it. Save this for future reference.
Printed without permission, hope I don't get in trouble.
So long,
Noah