Freedom House has announced its list of the “worst of the worst” human right violators in a report issued on June 3, 2010, which include three nations that are members of the U.N. Human Rights Council Saudi Arabia, Libya, Communist China, and Cuba). The Freedom House list includes 9 Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) nations (Somalia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Chad, Guinea, and Syria), 5 Communist nations (North Korea, Communist China, Cuba, Laos, and the territory of Tibet under Communist Chinese jurisidiction), Burmese/Myanmar, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, and Belarus.
Leaders of Some of "Worst" Nations for Human Rights: OIC's Sudan President Omar Al-Bashir, Communist China's CCP General Secretary Hu Jintao, Burma/Myamar's Senior General Than Shwe
The Freedom House Press Release states that:
“Nine countries and one territory are judged to have the worst human rights conditions, receiving the lowest possible score of 7 (based on a 1 to 7 scale, with 1 representing the most free and 7 representing the least free) on both political rights and civil liberties: Burma, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tibet.”
“An additional 8 countries and 2 territories score only slightly better, with a score of 7 in political rights and a score of 6 in the civil liberties category: Belarus, Chad, China, Cuba, Guinea, Laos, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.”
“The event included a release of the results by Freedom House director of advocacy, Paula Schriefer and remarks by Mr. Mamadi Kaba, President of RADDHO-Guinea, a leading Guinean human rights organization. Mr. Kaba is part of a delegation from Africa, sponsored by Freedom House, which is attending the Human Rights Council session to lobby for greater human rights in Africa. Of the 20 countries identified in the report, 6 are from Sub-Saharan Africa, including Guinea.”
“‘While it is shameful that three of the ‘Worst of the Worst’ regimes now actually sit on the Council (China, Cuba and Saudi Arabia) and a fourth (Libya) was just elected, we nonetheless call on the member states of the Council to fulfill their mandate and take actions to address the systemic abuses in these countries,’ continued Schriefer.”
“Since the Council was first established in 2006 to replace the widely discredited UN Commission on Human Rights, only a handful of ‘Worst of the Worst’ states — Burma, Guinea, Somalia, Sudan and North Korea — have been the focus of resolutions or special sessions by the UN body.”
— Press Release: Freedom House Reveals the World’s Worst Human Rights Abusers
— Full Report: Freedom in the World 2010 – Worst of the Worst
— Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Members
— R.E.A.L. Reports on Communist Totalitarianism
— R.E.A.L. Reports on Communist China
— R.E.A.L. Reports on North Korea
— R.E.A.L. Reports on Radical Extremism
— Wikipedia Report on Hu Jintao
— Wikipedia Report on Than Shwe
— Wikipedia Report on Omar Al-Bashir
Sudan's Omar Al-Bashir -- Architect of Genocide (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)