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. .

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 ...

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

Idris Khattak has been imprisoned for more than five years for his work defending Pakistan’s Pashtun ethnic minority from persecution.

Freedom House research has found that exiles living in more than 100 countries have been targeted with assassinations, abductions, assaults, and other brutal transnational repression tactics.

Local Democratic Governance rating declined from 1.75 to 1.50 due to the long-term erosion of local government autonomy, which was demonstrated during the 2023 local elections, as well as the failure ...

4. Human rights implications. Data privacy is essential to the protection and enjoyment of human rights. Domestic data storage requirements place users’ data firmly in the legal purview of governments ...

Introduction. Transnational repression unexpectedly became an important issue in Canada’s 2025 federal election. During the campaign, candidates from two major parties, the Liberal Party of Canada and ...

This special report documents how ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh were intentionally subjected to regular attacks, intimidation, deprivation of basic rights and adequate living conditions, and ...

In Armenia in 2023, the most significant political processes and concerns both stem from security issues, particularly relations with Azerbaijan and its 10-month-long blockade of the unrecognized but ...