Governments around the world are increasingly exerting control over the technology that people depend on to access the free ...

"The Russian Federation actively, without wasting time, destroyed all dissent, activism, journalism, and justice in Crimea. .

Freedom in the World is an annual global report on political rights and civil liberties, composed of numerical ratings and descriptive texts for each country and a select group of territories. The ...

Introduction. Sealed borders and exit bans evoke images of the Cold War, when communist states limited the free movement of hundreds of millions of people. 1 Today, blanket prohibitions on ...

WASHINGTON—The Freedom House Executive Board, chaired by Norman Willox, today announced that it has selected Gerardo Berthin and Annie Boyajian to serve as Freedom House’s new presidents. Berthin and ...

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The country’s authoritarian regime continues to hold more than 1,100 political prisoners in abusive conditions.

The recommendations listed below are intended to constrain the ability of states to commit acts of transnational repression, to increase accountability for perpetrators of transnational repression, ...

The UAE is one of the world’s most connected countries. According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), 98.5 percent of the population used the internet in 2018, up from 94.8 percent the ...

Dropping the democratic facade in Europe and Eurasia. Making plans for indefinite rule in authoritarian states. In the authoritarian half of the Nations in Transit region, incumbent rulers used their ...

Securing Elections For Policymakers. Improve transparency and oversight of online political advertisements. In the United States, the Honest Ads Act (S.1356/H.R.2592) would modernize existing law by ...

Since 1973, Freedom House has assessed the condition of political rights and civil liberties around the world. It is used on a regular basis by policymakers, journalists, academics, activists, and ...