Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Project Director, Freedom of the Press Sylvana Habdank-Kolaczkowska, Project Director, Nations in Transit Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn, Director, Religious Freedom and South East Asia Programs Viviana Giacaman, Director, Latin America Programs Lynn Fredriksson, Senior Program Manager, Global Human Rights Jenai Cox, Senior Program Officer, Africa ProgramsĬharles Dunne, Director, Middle East and North Africa Programs
Paula Schriefer, Vice President, Global ProgramsĬhristopher Walker, Vice President, Strategy and AnalysisĪndrew Apostolou, Director, Iran Programsĭanilo Bakovic, Senior Program Manager, Internet FreedomĮrin Connors, Senior Program Officer, Africa Programs Jennifer Koliba, Senior Advisor, ComplianceĪrch Puddington, Vice President, Research Robert Herman, Vice President, Regional Programs Lisa Davis, Senior Advisor, International Legal Affairs Bennett, Chief Operating Officerĭaniel Calingaert, Vice President, Policy and External Affairs In 1997, a consolidation took place whereby the international democratization training programs of the National Forum Foundation were incorporated into Freedom House." Staff Executive Staff: 2012
It has championed the rights of democratic activists, religious believers, trade unionists, journalists, and proponents of free markets. Freedom House has vigorously opposed dictatorships in Central America and Chile, apartheid in South Africa, the suppression of the Prague Spring, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, and the brutal violation of human rights in Cuba, Burma, China, and Iraq. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, of the Vietnam boat people in the 1970s, of Poland's Solidarity movement and the Filipino democratic opposition in the 1980s, and of the many democracies that have emerged around the world in the 1990s. It was an outspoken advocate of the Marshall Plan and NATO in the 1940s, of the U.S. Freedom House describes itself as non-partisan and broad-based, "a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world." It was founded "nearly sixty years ago by Eleanor Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, and other Americans concerned with the mounting threats to peace and democracy, Freedom House has been a vigorous proponent of democratic values and a steadfast opponent of dictatorships of the far left and the far right." įreedom House sees itself "at the center of the struggle for freedom.