Countries where the legal system provides a way to discuss, define, and defend human rights qualify, imho. No system is perfect, but those that follow laws pertaining to human rights are generally closer to the ideal. It's about this subtle difference:
USA: "We have no problem with someone saying that the president is an idiot"
Russia: "We have no problem with someone saying that the US president is an idiot"
EASY. Nordic social democracies, Iceland. I know someone will respond with some examples of them capitulating to big bad America somewhere, but they are absolutely bastions of Human rights and freedoms.
New Zeland is likely up there too, likely Luxembourg/Switzerland and other tax havens. The Baltics are pretty good.
Julian Assange case shows things change when it comes to big politics.
> On 5 February 2016, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announced that the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention had found that the UK and Swedish governments were holding Assange in arbitrary detention by initially keeping him in isolation at Wandsworth prison and because the Swedish prosecutor was conducting its investigation with a "lack of diligence". The Working Group said Assange should be allowed to walk free and be given compensation.[113][114][115] The UK and Swedish governments denied the charge of detaining Assange arbitrarily.
surfingdino|1 year ago
USA: "We have no problem with someone saying that the president is an idiot"
Russia: "We have no problem with someone saying that the US president is an idiot"
andix|1 year ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_in_the_World
Der_Einzige|1 year ago
New Zeland is likely up there too, likely Luxembourg/Switzerland and other tax havens. The Baltics are pretty good.
culebron21|1 year ago
> On 5 February 2016, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announced that the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention had found that the UK and Swedish governments were holding Assange in arbitrary detention by initially keeping him in isolation at Wandsworth prison and because the Swedish prosecutor was conducting its investigation with a "lack of diligence". The Working Group said Assange should be allowed to walk free and be given compensation.[113][114][115] The UK and Swedish governments denied the charge of detaining Assange arbitrarily.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...