Protecting and Promoting Internet Freedom For Policymakers Protect privacy and security Strictly regulate the use of surveillance tools and personal-data collection by government and law enforcement ...

A country or territory’s Freedom in the World status depends on its aggregate Political Rights score, on a scale of 0–40, and its aggregate Civil Liberties score, on a scale of 0–60. See the ...

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.

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

The people of Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, traditionally enjoyed substantial civil liberties and the rule of law under their local constitution, the Basic Law. However, the ...

This report examines the situation for ethnic Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh for the period starting with the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020 and through the Azerbaijani military offensive ...

The Turkish state’s current campaign of transnational repression is remarkable for its intensity, its geographic reach, and the suddenness with which it escalated. Since the coup attempt against ...

Freedom in the World 2025–26 Junior Fellowship Apply Position Summary Freedom House is seeking motivated candidates for the eight-month Freedom in the World 2025-2026 Junior Fellowship program.

Fifty Years in the Global Struggle for Freedom In 1973, when Freedom House published its first comprehensive assessment of political rights and civil liberties, only 44 of 148 countries were ...

On May 20, Freedom House presented its inaugural Alfred Moses Liberty Award to Server Mustafayev, a Crimean Tatar human rights defender who has been unjustly imprisoned by Russian authorities since ...

Past Programming in Turkey Policy Brief Series: Call for Proposals for Advancing Fundamental Freedoms in Turkey Freedom House seeks perspectives from independent researchers on issues concerning the ...