No inauguration ceremony can legitimize Maduro’s fraudulent claim to have won the July 2024 presidential election.

The ability to forge broad and diverse coalitions is a signature asset of democratic politics, and it is needed now more than ...

While 2024 was a year of conflict and upheaval, it was also marked by perseverance, determination, and people’s unwavering ...

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 ...

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 ...

Protecting and Promoting Internet Freedom For Policymakers Protect privacy and security Strictly regulate the use of surveillance tools and personal-data collection by government and law enforcement ...

Online content manipulation contributed to a seventh consecutive year of overall decline in internet freedom, along with a rise in disruptions to mobile internet service and increases in physical and ...

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.

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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 ...

A growing number of leaders in Central and Eastern Europe have dropped even the pretense of playing by the rules of democracy. As the democratic consensus of the post–Cold War order has given way to ...

Governments are increasingly purchasing sophisticated technology to monitor their citizens’ behavior on social media. Once the preserve of the world’s foremost intelligence agencies, this form of mass ...