President Noboa was elected to fight spiraling gang violence, but serious abuses are being reported under his crackdown.

Given the Cameroonian government’s ongoing persecution and arbitrary detention of journalists, the country has failed to meet a US statutory requirement on progress toward the rule of law and the ...

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 ...

We, the undersigned organizations, are deeply alarmed by the news that Egyptian academic and U.S. lawful permanent resident Dr. Salah Soltan is enduring a potentially life-threatening medical crisis ...

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

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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 ...

Transnational repression threatens security and human rights. The more we know about who is committing it and how, the better we can fight to end it.

The international spotlight is on Qatar for the 2022 World Cup. It’s not only the football matches that are receiving global attention, but also Qatar’s harrowing human rights record. To fully ...

The continent led the world in both positive and negative changes last year. The 2020 Freedom in the World report documented the 14th year of an alarming global decline in democratic governance and ...

WASHINGTON—While advances in artificial intelligence (AI) offer benefits for society, they have also been used to increase the scale and efficiency of digital repression. According to Freedom House’s ...

More than simple majority rule, democracy is a governing system based on the will and consent of the governed, institutions that are accountable to all citizens, adherence to the rule of law, and ...