Freedom House experts urge the United States to raise the release of political prisoners, Taiwan, transnational repression, ...

Freedom House experts urge the United States to raise the release of political prisoners, Taiwan, transnational repression, ...

The future of Iran belongs to the Iranian people. Iran’s path forward must reflect the will of the Iranian people, who have ...

The people of Iran should be able to freely determine their country's future.

Freedom House recorded 126 new incidents of physical, direct transnational repression during the year, bringing the total ...

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 ...

After experiencing a gradual decline in respect for political rights and civil liberties over the past decade, the United States is now facing an acute crisis for democracy. The events of the past ...

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 ...

A growing number of leaders in Central and Eastern Europe have dropped even the pretense of playing by the rules of democracy. As the democratic consensus of the post–Cold War order has given way to ...