Freedom House ranks Taiwan as 'mostly free'

In “The Global State of Workers' Rights: Free Labor in a Hostile World, “ Taiwan and Japan, along with 36 other countries, were included in the “mostly free” group — the second best of five classifications used by Freedom House.

South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and 38 other countries received the top ranking of “free”; China, Singapore, Afghanistan, Cambodia and 22 others were in the “repressive” group; and 14 countries including Myanmar, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam received the worst ranking of “very repressive.”

After assessing trade unions and worker freedom in 165 countries, Freedom House said that one third of the global population lives in societies in which “workers' rights suffer a significant degree of repression.” Substantial problems occur in every region of the world except Western Europe, it said, with the most serious abuses occurring in the Middle East and the former Soviet Union.

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