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Freedom House opened its doors on the 22nd of January 1942 at a converted residence located at 32 East 51st Street in New York City. The organization incorporated on the 31st of October 1941 with Eleanor Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie serving as honorary chairpersons.
Since 1973 Freedom House has published an annual report titled Freedom in the World assessing civil liberties and political rights across 195 countries and 15 territories. The organization also releases a Freedom on the Net report that covers concepts like new legislation but lacks the country coverage seen in other datasets.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie served as honorary chairpersons when the organization was incorporated on the 31st of October 1941 to counter Axis shortwave propaganda. They produced radio programs like The Voice of Freedom during 1942 and 1943 using a broadcasting facility within their physical space.
A study by Kenneth A. Bollen and Pamela Paxton concluded there was unambiguous evidence of judge-specific measurement errors related to country traits from 1972 to 1988. They estimated Raymond Gastil's method produced a bias of 0.38 standard deviations against Communist countries and a larger bias of 0.5 standard deviations favoring Christian countries.
In December 2019 the Chinese government sanctioned Freedom House along with four other U.S.-based democracy organizations for interfering in internal affairs. Russia declared Freedom House an undesirable organization in May 2024 after identifying it as biased and serving U.S. interests while Cuban representatives argued at the UN in May 2001 that the organization was a U.S. foreign policy instrument linked to the CIA.