Freedom House on 'Freedom in the World'
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Since 1974, Freedom House has compiled the “Freedom in the World” report, a comparative assessment of global rights and civil liberties that ranks each country’s level of freedom and identifies regional and global trends. And the results for 2019 do not look good.
David Priess spoke with Michael Abramowitz and Sarah Repucci of Freedom House about the threat to civil rights in India and Kashmir; the ethnic cleansing of muslims in China; the decline of democracy even in traditional strongholds like the United States; the era of peaceful, non-violent protests across the globe; and recommendations for supporting burgeoning democracies overseas.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.8 | Democracy has been less outspoken. |
| 0:36.1 | They've been more concerned with internal matters or take a more isolationist stance. |
| 0:44.1 | And the US is a prime example of this. |
| 0:46.0 | We're very concerned that US foreign policy has been less grounded in our fundamental |
| 0:53.0 | values under the Trump administration. |
| 0:55.9 | Of course there have always been exceptions, there have always been mistakes, but at a |
| 1:00.3 | basic level the United States always came back to those values. |
| 1:05.8 | And we're very worried that it doesn't seem to be as important as it once was. |
| 1:11.3 | I'm David Prius and this is the LawFair podcast March 24th, 2020. |
| 1:17.5 | As we witness democratic backsliding around the world, LawFair is releasing a two part |
| 1:21.9 | podcast series on the state of global democracy. |
| 1:25.5 | In the first segment, Ben Wittis interviewed Alina Poliakova and Tori Tosig about the |
| 1:30.8 | democracy playbook and strategies for fighting illiberal political movements. |
| 1:36.2 | For today's episode, I spoke with Michael Abramowitz and Sarah Rippucci of Freedom House. |
| 1:42.4 | Since 1974, Freedom House has compiled the Freedom in the World Report, a comparative |
| 1:48.0 | assessment of global rights and civil liberties that ranks each country's level of freedom |
| 1:53.6 | and identifies regional and global trends. |
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