The ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 7 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 1 the lowest. The Democracy Score is an average of ratings for the categories tracked in a ...

Charlie Kirk’s murder in Utah is the latest in a series of attacks that threaten the basic operations of American politics, ...

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 ...

Democratic governments should not be fooled by Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s recent attempts to curry favor with the United States.

On 5 September 2025, Freedom House, HRHF and several INGOs wrote to member and observer states of the UN Human Rights Council urging their support for the renewal of the mandate of the Special ...

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. Gerardo Berthin and Annie Boyajian Selected as New ...

Saudi Arabia’s absolute monarchy restricts almost all political rights and civil liberties. No officials at the national level are elected. The regime relies on pervasive surveillance, the ...

Democracies, as a matter of their own survival, must demonstrate basic solidarity and prevent the outright conquest of other free societies by authoritarian powers. With each year of global decline in ...

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 ...

The Freedom on the Net index measures each country’s level of internet freedom based on a set of methodology questions. The methodology is developed in consultation with international experts to ...

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