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| | Freedom Advances Worldwide, Study Says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | NEW YORK (UPI) Human rights and republicanism made major gains worldwide this year as inter-ethnic conflict waned, capping a decadelong trend of gains for freedom around the globe, a study released by Freedom House said Wednesday. |
 | | The annual survey was released by Freedom House, a 60-year-old nonprofit, nonpartisan hybrid of a think tank, an advocacy group and an nongovernmental organization that was founded to promote liberty and republicanism around the world by Eleanor Roosevelt and a nonpartisan group of business and labor leaders, writers, journalists and former government officials and legislators. |
 | | Republicanism and freedom remain deeply entrenched in Western Europe, with all 24 states rated "free." Latin America, east-central Europe and the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa had smaller percentages of "free" states, ranging from 17 percent in Africa to 89 percent in the Americas. |
| www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2000/12/20/203443.shtml (675 words) |
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