Nepal is Region's Most Positive Development: Freedom House

The year 2006 saw little change in the global state of freedom in the world.. but Nepal was an exception, says the 2007 survey by Freedom House, a Washington D.C.-based nonpartisan organization. Nepal (like Haiti) moved from Not Free to Partly Free. The report says: “The region’s most important positive development was Nepal’s climb from Not Free to Partly Free due to the end of direct rule by the king and the return of parliament.” Compare Nepal’s 5(political liberties) and 4 (civil liberties) with that of Bhutan (6:5, not free), India (2:3, free), Bangladesh (4:4, partly free), USA (1:1, free), Pakistan (7:5, not free), Sri Lanka (4:4, partly free), and China (5:2, partly free). 
• Thailand 'no longer free', Bangkok Post 
• Freedom House rates Tibet worst in political rights, civil libeties, , Yubanet 
• Freedom House Warns of ‘Global Stagnation’, Men's News 
• The Limits of Democracy, Newsweek