Freedom House marked the 85th anniversary of its founding in 1941, recognizing luminaries in the fight for freedom and launching “Investing in Freedom’s Future,” a major new effort to confront the ...

Note: In remarks at Freedom House’s Annual Awards and 85th Anniversary celebration last night, actor, producer, and human rights advocate Nazanin Boniadi reaffirmed that courage and unity can overcome ...

As the democratic community adapts to the severe funding cuts and operational disruptions of 2025, this year’s Freedom in the World recommendations urge policymakers, practitioners, and partners to ...

Côte d’Ivoire continues to recover from an armed conflict that ended in 2011. Several root causes of that conflict remain, including ethnic and regional tensions, land disputes, corruption, and ...

Scores are based on a scale of 0 (least free) to 100 (most free). See the methodology and report acknowledgements. France registered a minor improvement in internet freedom during the coverage period.

North Korea is a one-party state led by a dynastic totalitarian dictatorship that regularly engages in grave human rights abuses. Surveillance is pervasive, arbitrary arrests and detention are common, ...

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. Freedom House’s new 85th anniversary campaign, aimed at ...

Russia’s political rights rating declined from 6 to 7 due to the heavily flawed 2016 legislative elections, which further excluded opposition forces from the political process. In Russia’s ...

Explore the latest edition of Freedom in the World 2025: The Uphill Battle to Safeguard Rights to learn more about the latest global trends. Around the world, voters have been forced to make major ...

Freedom House is pleased to announce that the 2026 Freedom House Annual Awards will be held on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. As Freedom House marks its 85th anniversary this year, we invite you to join us ...

Sweden is one of the few countries in the world that explicitly recognize, in their national security framework and through criminal law, the threat posed by repressive foreign governments to ...