Ten years after the Chinese government’s widespread crackdown on human rights lawyers, concerned governments and the United Nations should establish an independent, international investigation into ...

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

The full Freedom in the World 2025 narrative report for United States will be posted as soon as it becomes available. Other Freedom House United States content can be found on the United States portal ...

Iranians have taken to the streets in rebellion. The vanguard are young women, but they have been joined by men and people of all ages. With breathtaking courage and unarmed, they have kept coming, ...

Perspectives May 21, 2025 Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Built on AI Surveillance and Disregard for Due Process ...

In this issue: Chinese social media platforms flooded with antisemitism, banned photos from the Asian Games, a rollback on data export rules, and life sentence for a Uyghur scholar. Meanwhile, police ...

Iran suffered declines, and 93 percent of the region’s people still live in countries rated Not Free. The report—Freedom in the World 2023: Marking 50 Years in the Struggle for Democracy—finds that ...

WASHINGTON—Global freedom declined for an 18th consecutive year in 2023 as political rights and civil liberties deteriorated in 52 countries, representing a fifth of the world’s population, according ...

Over 100 countries are participating in the 2021 Summit for Democracy. To support the Summit objectives, Freedom House has assembled democracy ratings, scores, and areas of concern for each country ...

The Aragalaya movement forced out the long-standing Rajapaksa family, which had worked to consolidate power and weaken checks on its rule. But the next government has pressed forward with new ...

A total of 25 countries’ governments were responsible for 125 incidents of physical transnational repression last year, including the first documented cases perpetrated by the governments of Cuba, the ...