WASHINGTON—The Freedom House Executive Board, chaired by Norman Willox, today announced that it has selected Gerardo Berthin and Annie Boyajian to serve as Freedom House’s new presidents. Berthin and ...

The country’s authoritarian regime continues to hold more than 1,100 political prisoners in abusive conditions.

"The Russian Federation actively, without wasting time, destroyed all dissent, activism, journalism, and justice in Crimea. .

WASHINGTON—In response to the G7 Leaders’ statement issued during the summit in Canada earlier this week recognizing transnational repression as a global threat to national security and democracy, as ...

Governments around the world are increasingly exerting control over the technology that people depend on to access the free and open internet.

Even as Americans remain committed to the ideals of democracy, a majority see democracy in the United States as weak and getting weaker, according to a national survey jointly commissioned by Freedom ...

Hong Kong Is Unrecognizable after Two Years under the National Security Law Five ways the law has deepened authoritarianism in the territory as conditions about to worsen By Angeli Datt On June 10, ...

Conditions in Nagorno-Karabakh were examined in a separate report through the 2024 edition of Freedom in the World, in which the territory’s status declined from Partly Free to Not Free due to an ...

Research and Scoring Process Freedom of the Press findings are determined through a multilayered process of analysis and evaluation by a team of regional experts and scholars. Through multiple stages ...

This report examines the situation for ethnic Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh for the period starting with the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020 and through the Azerbaijani military offensive ...

The pandemic is fueling digital repression worldwide.The allure of cyber sovereignty Rather than protecting users, the application of national sovereignty to cyberspace has given authorities free rein ...