Media freedom has been deteriorating around the world over the past decade. In some of the most influential democracies in the world, populist leaders have overseen concerted attempts to throttle the ...

Trump’s pardons and sentence commutations for January 6 attackers aim to excuse a violent assault on a key element of democracy; Biden’s preemptive pardons circumvent, and thereby undermine, the ...

Freedom in the World is an annual global report on political rights and civil liberties, composed of numerical ratings and descriptive texts for each country and a select group of territories. The ...

The pandemic is fueling digital repression worldwide. The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a dramatic decline in global internet freedom. For the 10th consecutive year, users have experienced an ...

Democracy and pluralism are under assault. Democracy and pluralism are under assault. Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new ...

The recommendations listed below are intended to constrain the ability of states to commit acts of transnational repression and to increase accountability for perpetrators of transnational repression.

The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system, a strong rule-of-law tradition, robust freedoms of expression and religious belief, and a wide array of ...

Around the world, journalists, human rights defenders, civil society activists and organizations, religious freedom advocates, and LGBTQI+activists frequently come under threat because they stand up ...

“At the same time, it is also clear that millions of people in the United States use TikTok to express themselves, access ...

All parties should adhere to its terms and work toward a future in which both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace, ...

Since 1973, Freedom House has assessed the condition of political rights and civil liberties around the world. It is used on a regular basis by policymakers, journalists, academics, activists, and ...

The following countries—and one territory—featured important developments in 2020 that affected their democratic trajectory, and deserve special scrutiny in 2021. The road to an open democratic ...