Equatorial Guinea

740 thousand people
15,670 USD GNI (PPP)
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Freedom Alert

UNESCO to Award Prize Funded by Dictator Obiang

Jul 16 2012 - 4:08pm

Freedom House strongly opposes the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s decision to award a controversial prize financed by one of the world’s longest-ruling dictators, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea.

Issues: 
Human Rights Defense, United Nations
Regions: 
Sub-Saharan Africa
Freedom Alert

Freedom House Urges UNESCO to Reject Renamed Obiang Prize

Mar 8 2012 - 5:29pm

Freedom House remains strongly opposed to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s bid to reconsider the life sciences prize associated with Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, because of his government’s human rights abuses, and calls on the UNESCO Executive Board to permanently remove the prize from consideration.

Issues: 
Civil Society, Human Rights Defense, United Nations
Regions: 
Sub-Saharan Africa
Freedom Alert

UNESCO Must Reject Obiang Prize

Sep 26 2011 - 7:00pm

Freedom House strongly opposes the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s bid to reconsider the life sciences prize named after Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who has blatantly ignored human rights abuses in his country for the past 30 years, and calls on the UNESCO Executive Board to remove the prize from consideration permanently.

Issues: 
Human Rights Defense, Media Freedom, Rule of Law, United Nations
Regions: 
Sub-Saharan Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
Freedom Alert

German television crew detained, footage destroyed by Equatorial Guinea authorities

May 31 2011 - 7:00pm

On June 11, 2011, three employees from German television station ZDF were briefly detained and had their video footage destroyed in Equatorial Guinea. The crew was filming a concert at a French cultural center in Malabo as part of a larger effort to capture via film the general state of affairs in Equatorial Guinea. They were taken to TVGE studios where security agents led by the director of the state-controlled TV station, Teobaldo Nchaso Matomba, ordered them to hand over all video footage.

Issues: 
Civil Society, Freedom of Expression, Media Freedom
Regions: 
Sub-Saharan Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

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Worst of the Worst 2011: The World's Most Repressive Societies

Freedom House has prepared this special report entitled Worst of the Worst: The World’s Most Repressive Societies, as a companion to its annual survey on the state of global political rights and civil liberties, Freedom in the World. The special report provides summary country reports, tables, and graphical information on the countries that receive the lowest combined ratings for political rights and civil liberties in Freedom in the World, and whose citizens endure systematic and pervasive human rights violations.

Issues: 
Democratic Governance, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights Defense
Regions: 
Asia-Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe/Eurasia, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

Worst of the Worst 2007

Sudan, North Korea and Uzbekistan are prominent among the most repressive regimes in the world, according to a report released by Freedom House.  The study, “The Worst of the Worst: The World's Most Repressive Societies 2007,” named seventeen countries with the worst records for political rights and civil liberties, and pointed to thirteen countries which have been on the list for five years or more.

Issues: 
Democratic Governance, Human Rights Defense, Rule of Law
Regions: 
Central and Eastern Europe/Eurasia, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

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