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Freedom and the Media 2019 draws on data generated in the course of Freedom House’s Freedom in the World report to provide a global view of press freedom. The 2019 edition covers developments in 195 ...

Since coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has constructed a multi-layered system for censoring unwanted news and stifling opposing viewpoints within China. Over the past two ...

Eastern Donbas comprises the portions of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk Regions that have been occupied by Russian and Russian-backed separatist forces since 2014. It covers about a third of the two ...

Governments are increasingly purchasing sophisticated technology to monitor their citizens’ behavior on social media. Once the preserve of the world’s foremost intelligence agencies, this form of mass ...

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

In recent years, Guatemala has suffered an alarming democratic setback, especially in the fight against corruption. In May 2023, Freedom House joined seven international press freedom and freedom of ...

In the Middle East and North Africa, the lack of any consistent international leadership from democracies has encouraged authoritarian powers to engage in devastating proxy wars. Tunisia stands alone ...

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The ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 7 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 1 the lowest. The Democracy Score is an average of ratings for the categories tracked in a ...