Editing Angola (section)

===Human rights===
{{Main|Human rights in Angola}}
{{See also|LGBT rights in Angola}}
Angola was classified as 'not free' by [[Freedom House]] in the [[Freedom in the World]] 2014 report<ref name=freedomhouse>{{cite web|title=Angola|url=https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2014/angola|work=Freedom in the World 2014|publisher=Freedom House|access-date=7 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207234837/https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2014/angola|archive-date=7 February 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> and the 2024 report,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Angola: Freedom in the World 2024 Country Report |url=https://freedomhouse.org/country/angola/freedom-world/2024 |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=Freedom House |language=en |archive-date=13 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241113094047/https://freedomhouse.org/country/angola/freedom-world/2024 |url-status=live }}</ref> however the report has noted increases in freedoms under [[João Lourenço]]. The 2014 report noted that the [[Angolan legislative election, 2012|August 2012 parliamentary elections]], in which the ruling [[Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola]] won more than 70% of the vote, suffered from serious flaws, including outdated and inaccurate voter rolls.<ref name=freedomhouse/> Voter turnout dropped from 80% in 2008 to 60%.<ref name=freedomhouse/>

A 2012 report by the [[United States State Department|U.S. Department of State]] said, "The three most important [[human rights]] abuses [in 2012] were official corruption and impunity; limits on the freedoms of assembly, association, speech, and press; and cruel and excessive punishment, including reported cases of torture and beatings as well as unlawful killings by police and other security personnel."<ref>{{citation|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/204298.pdf|title=2012 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Angola|publisher=Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State|access-date=12 June 2019|archive-date=26 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326141534/https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/204298.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

Angola ranked forty-two of forty-eight sub-Saharan African states on the 2007 Index of African Governance list and scored poorly on the 2013 [[Ibrahim Index of African Governance]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Condon|first=Madison|date=1 January 2012|title=China in Africa: What the Policy of Nonintervention Adds to the Western Development Dilemma|url=https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/990|journal=PRAXIS: The Fletcher Journal of Human Security|volume=27|page=5|access-date=30 November 2020|archive-date=26 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026063319/https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/990/|url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|8}} It was ranked 39 out of 52 [[sub-Saharan Africa]]n countries, scoring particularly badly in the areas of participation and human rights, sustainable economic opportunity and human development. The Ibrahim Index uses a number of variables to compile its list which reflects the state of governance in Africa.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/iiag/| title=Ibrahim Index of African Governance| publisher=Mo Ibrahim Foundation| access-date=9 August 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801173520/http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/iiag/| archive-date=1 August 2014| url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2019, [[Homosexuality|homosexual]] acts were decriminalized in Angola, and the government also prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation. The vote was overwhelming: 155 for, 1 against, 7 abstaining.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Sophie |date=24 January 2019 |title=Angola decriminalises homosexuality and bans discrimination based on sexual orientation |work=Evening Standard|location=London |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/angola-decriminalises-homosexuality-and-bans-discrimination-based-on-sexual-orientation-a4047871.html |url-status=live |access-date=25 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190124231409/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/angola-decriminalises-homosexuality-and-bans-discrimination-based-on-sexual-orientation-a4047871.html |archive-date=24 January 2019}}</ref>