The 52nd edition of Freedom in the World finds that 60 countries experienced declines in their political rights and civil ...

Freedom in the World 2025 finds that violence and armed conflict drove the 19th consecutive year of decline in global freedom ...

Vladimir Putin and his enablers must be held accountable for violations of international law and national sovereignty.

The recent arrest and deportation of a prominent Egyptian Turkish activist to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) highlights the ...

Democracies, as a matter of their own survival, must demonstrate basic solidarity and prevent the outright conquest of other ...

Thai authorities should not forcibly return Uyghur asylum seekers to China. Thailand does not recognize the status of refugees or asylum seekers and has signed neither the UN Refugee Convention nor ...

Al-Shehab was arbitrarily detained in 2021 and unfairly sentenced to 34 years in prison for her social media activity. WASHINGTON—After Saudi authorities released political prisoner Salma al-Shehab, ...

China conducts the most sophisticated, global, and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression in the world. China conducts the most sophisticated, global, and comprehensive campaign of ...

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. Authoritarian governments around the world are ...

This special report details how the Belarusian regime displaces, indoctrinates, reeducates, and militarizes Ukrainian children in the service of the broader Russian state policy of eradicating ...