According to a UK-based group, the latest research on global free expression rights gives people the freedom to receive and share information. Is only 15% of the world's population.
Article 19, an international human rights organization, reports on the 2022 Global Expression that 80% of the world's population is in prestigious countries such as China, Myanmar and Russia, and in democratic countries such as Brazil and India. He states that he is living. There is less freedom of expression than it was 10 years ago.
According to the report, authoritative governments and rulers continue to tighten control over what their population sees, hears, and says.
While referring to Brazil's President Jail Borsonaro, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, the report reports on the "identities, information and opinions of hundreds of millions of people. Has exercised the ultimate authority. "
The annual report uses 25 indicators to show how freely each person can express, communicate and participate in society without fear of harassment, legal consequences or violence. By measuring, we are investigating the freedom of expression in 161 countries. Create a score from 0 to 100 for each country.
In this year's report, Denmark and Switzerland are ranked at the top of the world with 96 points each. Norway and Sweden each scored 94 points, and Estonia and Finland both scored 93 points. The open country is European.
Article 19 ranks North Korea as the most oppressive country in the world with a score of 0. Eritria, Syria and Turkmenistan scored 1 and Belarus, China and Cuba scored 2.
The United States was ranked 30th on the scale. In 2011, I was 9th in the world. In the United States, the score has dropped by 9 points and is ranked at the bottom of the open expression category. It was ranked as the lowest quadrant in the world in 2021 in terms of equality of civil liberties, political polarization and social polarization, and political violence of social groups. According to the
report, freedom of expression has shifted dramatically downwards around the world over the last two decades. Many of these occur as a result of seizure of power and coups, but under democratically elected mass leaders, more countries have seen erosion of rights.
Article 19 is named after an article based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This right includes the freedom to have an opinion without interference and to seek, receive and convey information and ideas through all media, regardless of frontier.
