Call for a Council of Europe Convention on Transnational Repression ...

Freedom House’s work was severely impacted by the US freeze on foreign aid earlier this year. Thanks to supporters like you, our efforts to expand and defend freedom continue. We need your support ...

Matthew Barak is a Research Associate at Freedom House, primarily covering the Americas for Freedom in the World and Freedom on the Net. He was the 2021-22 Freedom in the World Junior Fellow for ...

Five decades of country-by-country analysis in Freedom in the World has confirmed a remarkable fact: once countries earn the designation of Free, they tend to keep it. Freedom in the World evaluates ...

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 ...

Freedom in the World 2023 marked the 17th consecutive year of decline in global freedom. See this year's regional trends, status changes, and report data. Freedom in the World rates people’s access to ...

Anne C. Richard joined Freedom House as a Distinguished Fellow in October 2021 and helped launch the Afghanistan Human Rights Coordination Mechanism before stepping down at the end of June 2024.

The Chinese government’s efforts to tighten control at home and expand authoritarian tactics abroad present a threat to global democracy. Since Chinese President Xi Jinping took control of the ...

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. Fostering New Dialogue, Innovative Ideas to Energize ...

Rachel was the 2024-2025 Freedom in the World Junior Fellow covering North and East Africa. She graduated from The Ohio State University with a B.A. in International Relations and minors in Arabic and ...

Legal cases against former heads of state are commonplace in healthy democracies. The United States, with its strong rule-of-law tradition and independent judicial institutions, is entirely capable of ...