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  Freedom House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freedom House is a research institute, primarily governmentally-funded and headquarted in Washington, D.C., focused on promoting liberal democracy in the world.
Freedom House is funded by a number of foundations, including Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation and the Soros Foundation.
Freedom House has faced accusations from critics over the years, some of whom have described the organization as being a "right-wing"[11] "anticommunist propaganda institution"[12].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freedom_House   (1429 words)

  
 Air Force Villages | Freedom House
Freedom House, a stand alone, state of the art facility opened its doors in August 1998 expressly for this purpose.
Freedom House, a $10.0 million care and research facility adjacent to Air Force Village II, is being built in three phases.
The vision of Freedom House is to have a specially designed facility to care for the elderly living with Alzheimer’s through all phases of the disease.
www.airforcevillages.com /fhouse.html   (423 words)

  
 President Discusses Democracy in Iraq with Freedom House
Freedom House was founded on the principle that no nation is exempt from the demands of human dignity.
Yet, Freedom House has declared the year 2005 was one of the most successful years for freedom since the Freedom House began measuring world freedom more than 30 years ago.
And one of the reasons I respect the Freedom House is because you understand that you follow elections with institution-building and the creation of civil society.
www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2006/03/20060329-6.html   (12231 words)

  
 WLRN's House of Freedom, Tower of Dreams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
House of Freedom, Tower of Dreams is a WLRN Public Television documentary, created in association with The Miami Herald, and funded in part by Tropiculture and The Bacardi Family Foundation.
House of Freedom, Tower of Dreams is a one-hour documentary that traces the history of the Miami News Tower beginning with its construction in 1924, to the present day and the historical, emotional and social significance the tower has generated throughout the years.
House of Freedom, Tower of Dreams is hosted by local historian, Dr. Paul George, produced by Mia Laurenzo and director of photography was Ricardo Barredo.
www.wlrn.org /television/pages/freedom061804.htm   (550 words)

  
 IRC | RightWeb | Group Watch: Freedom House
Freedom House funnels the bulk of the NED funds to private sector institutions and projects overseas and is allowed to keep a maximum of 10 percent of the NED money for administrative costs.
Freedom House produces and markets publications, conducts studies of political rights and civil liberties, maintains speakers bureaus, holds conferences, engages in policy advocacy, and operates centers and information bureaus with regional and/or country-specific focuses.
According to Freedom House critics, the document primarily discussed the Salvadoran assembly elections of that year but failed to address contextual issues such as the violence against the left which had deterred it from participating in the elections and the continuing influence of the military and the extreme right.
rightweb.irc-online.org /groupwatch/freehous.php   (5568 words)

  
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Freedom House is a shelter for refugees who are seeking asylum in the U.S. and Canada.
Freedom House hosts people from all over the world and from all walks of life, faiths and ethnicity.
What Freedom House residents share in common is their suffering and their hope as refugees.
www.freedomhousedetroit.org /contact_us.html   (153 words)

  
 FreedomHouse.Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Freedom House, established in 1985 as a statewide nonprofit organization with sites in Hunterdon, Morris and Warren counties, operates a multi-phase long-term residential treatment program for adult males who are recovering from alcohol and drug addiction and who are at high risk of relapse without further treatment.
Freedom House was only able to serve 16% of the indigent clients applying for services.
Freedom House is deeply concerned for the 314 men who had to be turned away in 2003.
www.freedomhouse.net /aboutus.htm   (631 words)

  
 freedomhouse.org: Home
Freedom House, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization, is a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world.
Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties.
October 05, 2006 - Freedom House welcomes the European Parliament's decision to block the interim Turkmenistan Trade Agreement, and urges EU Institutions to further consider human rights standards in their relations with the energy rich and democracy poor countries of Central Asia.
www.freedomhouse.org   (515 words)

  
 Right Web | Organizations | Freedom House
During the Reagan administration, Freedom House was criticized for serving as a propaganda instrument of the United States, supporting the death squad-linked ARENA party in El Salvador while attacking the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, championing Contra leaders like Arturo Cruz, and serving as a conduit for funds from the National Endowment for Democracy.
In this case, it appears that Freedom House rifled through the libraries of only a handful of mosques across the United States and then implied in their conclusions that what they found in these mosques applies generally to mosques throughout the country.
Freedom House receives substantial funding from conservative foundations, including the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Bradley Foundation, Sarah Scaife, and the Olin Foundation.
rightweb.irc-online.org /org/freedom-house.php   (1183 words)

  
 FREEDOM HOUSE EUROPE
Freedom House is distressed by recent crackdowns by Russian authorities against activists who are drawing attention to human rights abuses in Chechnya and to the likely related murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Freedom House and the TRP urge the Committee to pledge strong commitment in the European Union’s new external relations instrument to strengthening bottom-up civil society initiatives.
Freedom House welcomes the European Parliament decision to block the interim Turkmenistan Trade Agreement and urges EU Institutions to further consider human rights standards in their relations with the energy rich and democracy poor countries of Central Asia
www.freedomhouse.hu   (616 words)

  
 Freedom House Ministries - Grand Junction, CO
Freedom House Ministries - Grand Junction, CO "Then the King will say to those on the right," 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
The Freedom House Ministries is a short term Christian living center.
Building on the fundamental principles of House of Emmanuel, Freedom House Ministries has built upon their training and vision to open a program here in the Grand Valley.
www.freedomhouse4him.org   (322 words)

  
 FreedomHouse.Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Provide transitional housing for recovering alcohol and drug addicted women and their children, and to supplement and enhance services already in existence.
Further, Freedom House's mission is to identify key decision makers in target communities and provide technical expertise and value added services to build long-term alliances and to develop product and service offerings to maximize opportunities in all communities.
Freedom House was recently chosen to be the lead agency in collaboration with Catholic Charities and DYFS
www.freedomhouse.net   (312 words)

  
 George Field Files: Freedom House Records | Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
Freedom House was formed in October 1941 as an organization dedicated to the defense of freedom throughout the world--a cause perceived t o be in great danger.
Freedom House also hosted conferences, sponsored research projects, lectures series and other educational programs, and published policy statements, pamphlets, and other written materials relating to issues of freedom of individuals and geographical regions.
Freedom House retained the balance of the amount for which the Willkie Building was sold, approximately $2,000,000.
infoshare1.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/field.html   (1958 words)

  
 Center for Religious Freedom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom today released a report analyzing a set of Saudi Ministry of Education textbooks in use during the current academic year in Islamic studies courses for elementary and secondary students.
Documents and information released for the first time today by Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom show that, despite its claims of liberalization, the Government of Vietnam is continuing its repression of Hmong Christians in the northwest provinces of Vietnam.
Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom today announced that three law students have been selected to receive the Center’s newly-inaugurated International Religious Freedom Law Fellowships for the summer of 2006.
www.freedomhouse.org /religion   (1366 words)

  
 CNN.com - Freedom House survey shows growing democracy worldwide - December 20, 2000
The Freedom House report said the promotion of democratic values, which it says began in the Reagan Administration, has borne fruit under succeeding U.S. administrations.
Freedom House said 47 countries containing 2.2 billion people rate as "not free." This 35 percent of the world's population is denied basic political rights and civil liberties.
Democracy and freedom were most entrenched in Western Europe, which was 100 percent free, and least prevalent in the Middle East, where 71 percent of 14 countries were rated not free.
archives.cnn.com /2000/US/12/20/bush.freedom/index.html   (875 words)

  
 Freedom House: when “freedom” is only a pretext [Voltaire]
George Field, Freedom House participated in hundreds of radio broadcasts during the war, it published pamphlets and it also organized exhibitions to help exiles, for racial integration within the armed forces, for the recognition of a free France and for the creation of the United Nations.
It was in the facilities of Freedom House, in 1949, where the Congress for Freedom of Culture [2] - a large CIA operation to manipulate Western European intellectuals - began.
Freedom House launched a program to train Eastern and Central European dissidents on human rights in collaboration with the American Bar Association which created an office specialized on interference [18] starting from th existing model for the participation of trade unions and employers in secret activities.
www.voltairenet.org /article30112.html   (1988 words)

  
 Home
Freedom House the documentary on the pioneers of Paramedics.
The Freedom House Paramedics had come a long way from those fl unemployable individuals that were first recruited for this project.
The Freedom House paramedics, who had been trained to the most exacting standards in the nation, were compelled to go through yet another course: a course that did not meet federal requirements.
www.freedomhousedoc.com /index.html   (913 words)

  
 Freedom House - SourceWatch
Freedom House is a non-profit organization that relies upon tax-deductible grants and donations under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code.
Freedom House 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...
The Freedom House Board of Trustees is described as "composed of leading Democrats, Republicans, and independents; business and labor leaders; former senior government officials; scholars; writers; and journalists."[4]
www.disinfopedia.org /wiki.phtml?title=Freedom_House   (367 words)

  
 Freedom House Notes Progress in Global Freedom in New Report | Christianpost.com- Christian News Online , Christian ...
Freedom House reported notable improvements in political rights and civil liberties around the world, particularly in the Middle East, in its annual survey on global freedom.
While human rights violations were reported in Iraq, the Muslim-dominated country has shown positive trends as it heads toward democracy and freedom for its people with the adoption of a constitution and the election of a new full-term parliament underway.
That freedom could thrive in this environment is impressive," stated Arch Puddington, director of research of Freedom House.
www.christianpost.com /article/missions/1923/section/freedom.house.notes.progress.in.global.freedom.in.new.report/1.htm   (511 words)

  
 Freedom House Downgrades Putin’s Russia to "Not Free"
Freedom House Downgrades Putin’s Russia to "Not Free"
In a press release from Freedom House, Executive Director Jennifer Windsor said, “Russia's step backwards into the Not Free category is the culmination of a growing trend under President Vladimir Putin to concentrate political authority, harass and intimidate the media, and politicize the country's law-enforcement system."
Freedom House also noted the corrupt elections process the country experienced in late 2003 and early 2004 as a major factor in changing Russia’s status.
www.dfn.org /printer_FreedomHouseDowngradesPutin.shtml   (270 words)

  
 FreedomHouse.Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Freedom House provides long-term treatment in a halfway house setting for adult males who are recovering from alcohol and drug addiction and who are at high risk of relapse without further treatment.
Freedom House began providing services in August of 1986 at Glen Gardner, New Jersey.
Residents are required to adhere to the house schedule at all times, and special privileges such as a weekend pass or a single-man room must be earned.
www.freedomhouse.net /freedomhouse_desc.htm   (446 words)

  
 Freedom House: Birmingham to Boston
A week later, Paul Parks of NAACP organized a meeting at Freedom House to air grievances to Louise Day Hicks, the new chair of the Boston School Committee.
A second stay-out, almost triple the size of the first, was held in February 1964 and led to the formation of the Sate Board of Education's Advisory Committee on Racial Imbalance.
The Council, along with the Institute, the Freedom House Coalition, and parents, expanded the community's role from channeling information to working directly with the court as advocates and advisors.
www.lib.neu.edu /archives/freedom_house/Birmingham.htm   (566 words)

  
 Freedom House: A CFR Front
Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom, which was established in 1986 as the Puebla Institute, reports on the persecution of religious believers around the world and undertakes advocacy on their behalf.
FREEDOM HOUSE was founded in 1943 by Wendell Wilkey (sic) and Eleanor Roosevelt to promote world government, and specifically for the creation of the United Nations, which was accomplished three years later.
Freedom House, obviously a front for the Council on Foreign Relations, is also committed to destroying national sovereignties and establishing world government.
watch.pair.com /FreedomHouse.html   (5723 words)

  
 Talk:Freedom House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freedom House definately has an interest in protraying itself a certian light, but other sources views are influenced by their own biases and points of view as well.
Freedom House is a policy tool, not an objective international forum or organization capable of producing such sort of evaluations or ratings.
Freedom House, which rated Russia "not free" in its latest world survey, is strangely silent when it comes to the growing loss of liberty in the U.S., and it's no mystery as to why.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Freedom_House   (12069 words)

  
 President Bush Speaks at Freedom House
Freedom House was founded on the principle that no nation is exempt from the demands of human dignity -- and you are carrying that message across the world from Africa to China to Belarus and beyond.
At Freedom House, you also understand: Free societies do not take root overnight -- especially in countries that suffered from decades of tyranny and repression.
President, as you noted at the beginning, I'm with Freedom House and I gave the president a copy of our annual report, "Freedom in the World," before he took the stage.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/29/AR2006032901620.html?nav=rss_politics/administration   (12387 words)

  
 Worldandnation: Freedom House: Russia 'not free'
MOSCOW - Russia has restricted rights to such an extent that it has joined the countries that are not free for the first time since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Freedom House said Monday, marking Moscow's march away from the Western democracies it has embraced as diplomatic partners.
Freedom House noted increased Kremlin control over television and other media, limitations on local government, and parliamentary and presidential elections it said were neither free nor fair.
Freedom House said that on balance, the world saw increased freedom in 2004: 26 countries showed gains while 11 showed decline.
www.sptimes.com /2004/12/21/Worldandnation/Freedom_House__Russia.shtml   (507 words)

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