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

Freedom House research has found that exiles living in more than 100 countries have been targeted with assassinations, abductions, assaults, and other brutal transnational repression tactics.

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

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

Michael Chertoff is the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of The Chertoff Group, a global advisory firm that provides business strategy, risk management, and mergers and acquisition (M&A) advisory ...

WASHINGTON—Today, Freedom House filed a petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) on behalf of Idris Khattak, a well-known human rights defender in Pakistan.Khattak is serving a ...

WASHINGTON—Ahead of the June 24–25 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in the Netherlands, Freedom House issued the following policy statement: “Freedom House welcomes NATO leaders’ ...

Freedom on the Net is a collaborative effort between Freedom House staff and a network of more than 70 researchers covering 65 countries. These researchers, who come from civil society organizations, ...

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 ...

Based on interviews with media professionals and experts in Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Poland, Reviving News Media in an Embattled Europe examines the playing field for independent ...

In 2023, Ukraine continued to defend its territory and people against a full-scale Russian invasion that brought more damage and atrocities. According to UN figures, as of November there have been ...

Among Ukraine’s broader electoral reform successes, the most recent transitions of power—namely, the parliamentary and presidential elections in 2019 and local elections in 2020—were peaceful, ...