The Vietnamese Government Must Immediately Disclose the Whereabouts and Guarantee the Safety of Religious Activist Y Quynh ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The future of internet freedom will depend on how governments regulate and deploy the next wave of artificial intelligence and other rapidly evolving technologies. “Global internet freedom has ...

(Beirut, November 10, 2025) – The United States government, including Congress, should address Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses during Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s expected visit to ...

The United States should demand measurable progress on human rights in exchange for the deeper cooperation Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman seeks. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s trip ...