League Salnite: Latvia’s High Ranking in Human Rights Index

League Salnite.

It was by chance that I came across recently collected statistical data, which, as you laugh, for the rarest time – significantly improved my sense of self and self-confidence. The website “Our World In Data” is a project of a charity organization in England and Wales, which compares different things as widely as possible, in almost all countries of the world. There is a table that compares the countries of the world according to the human rights index, in simple words, a measurement that determines the freedom of citizens from oppression realized by the government, the presence or absence of political assassinations, the existence of printed works, the existence of property rights, as well as the opportunities for people to participate in various movements, religions, express themselves and also self-determination.

And here I see that Latvia is ranked in the high 14th place. No matter how depressing the protests and complaints of revolutionaries, oppositionists and generally always dissenters about the existing system may seem at times, it is not bad. The first three are naturally made up of Sweden, then New Zealand and also Ireland, which I never associate as the Mecca of human rights. Of course, even in this summary, you can see and whine about the countries that are ahead of us. Most of them are other European countries, including Scandinavia, including our neighbor Estonia, which also took the high 5th place. However, far behind us are Australia, USA, France, and only 29th place is occupied by Lithuania. Great Britain is only in 45th place in this comparison, but Russia is ranked well behind in 150th place, with North Korea concluding this endlessly interesting comparison.

It becomes even more interesting when the human rights situation in countries is compared by year. It is on this site, although I don’t trust so much anymore to compare older data, possibly even from the end of the 18th century. However, it is interesting to see what opportunities our compatriots had to express themselves and live from 1920 to 1939 and how all expressions of human freedom were suppressed in 1940, when suddenly our legal freedoms fell to the last countries. And so until the end of the eighties, the beginning of the nineties, when we “awakened” again.

All this, of course, is understandable to us, but I will not deny, this compilation was a pleasant reminder for me. We also have opportunities to protest against whatever we want. We have the right to live and express ourselves. We have freedom. You can always want to develop even more, but this is also…cool!

2023-07-24 12:48:11
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