Freedom House report: Georgia the country with most free media in region
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Georgia has the most free media environment in the Caucasus region based on the newest report released by leading international watchdog Freedom House earlier today.
The Freedom of the Press 2017 report put Georgia among 72 states around the world with Partly Free media landscape.
On the assessment scale where 0 points categorise a country as Free and 100 as Least Free, Georgia received 50 points from the organisation.
The result classified the country as the most free of its region where Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey and Russia all fall in the Not Free section of the report.
Georgia’s status in the report — which summarises findings throughout 2016 — changed only one point from last year’s result (49).
Beyond the region, the results classify Georgia with other Partly Free countries including Italy, Poland and Croatia.
Based on the points score Georgia is ahead of Eastern European states including Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova.
The Freedom of the Press report assessed 199 countries and territories, of which 61 were rated Free, 72 as Partly Free and 66 as Not Free.
The report also revealed that 13 percent of the world’s population lived in countries with Free media environment, with 42 percent living in states with Partly Free press and 45 percent in those classified as Not Free.
Freedom House said the percentage of people living in countries with Free media in 2016 "remained at its lowest level since 1996”, when the watchdog started including population data in the annual report.
Established in the United States in 1941, the organisation works for "expansion of freedom and democracy around the world”
Georgia remains ‘partly free’ in the latest report by independent watchdog Freedom House. On a seven-point scale of the freedom rating, where one point meant the most free and seven points meant the least free, Georgia ranked three points.
A high official from the Organization for Security and Co-Operation (OSCE) is praising Georgia for the progress it’s recently made in media pluralism and freedom of the press.
Georgia has the most media freedom in the region.
Georgia remains ‘partially free’ in the latest report by independent watchdog Freedom House.
Georgia is aiming to improve its media environment and experts from the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media are assisting the country with it.
Freedom House has released its Freedom on the Net 2017 index, in which Georgia has improved its position with one point.
Georgia was ranked among the 59 'partly free' countries. Its score was again 64 on a scale of 1 to 100. In addition, on a seven-point scale of the freedom rating, where one point meant the most free and seven points meant the least free, Georgia ranked three points for the fourth time in a row.
Freedom House, a US-based, government-funded non-governmental organization for democracy, political freedom and human rights says in its Nation in Transit 2018 report that Georgia will not experience any political earthquakes in 2018.
The Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili says that Freedom House’s latest report, Nations in Transit 2018, released yesterday is "extremely biased and based on unbalanced information” about Georgia. "I believe that Freedom House should think twice before it spreads such biased assessments about Georgia’s democratic development level,” the PM stated today about the report which lowered Georgia’s democracy score from 4.61 to 4.68.
Freedom House, the US-government funded non-governmental organisation, has made corrections in its Nations in Transit report on Georgia, after the survey was harshly criticized by the Georgian prime minister, parliament speaker and other top figures of the country. The corrections were made on May 13 and 14 and they concern the media issues.
The EU and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Georgia have released findings on media coverage of elections in Georgia over the past three years.
Freedom House has released its Freedom in the World 2019 Report, which says that Georgia holds regular and competitive elections, and its democratic trajectory shows signs of improvement.
Freedom House’s latest report Democracy Under Lockdown reads that in Georgia the government has been widely commended among the population for imposing strict, but transparent measures to tackle the pandemic.