As Freedom House marks its 85th anniversary, we're asking you to join our Investing in Freedom's Future campaign. Global freedom has been in decline for two decades — and your support will sustain our ...

China is home to one of the largest and most complex media and information systems in the world. It is a system that often suppresses free expression but also provides opportunities for domestic and ...

Dr. Sushma Palmer is the Chair and Director of CECHE, the Center for Communications, Health and the Environment, a non-profit she founded with her late husband, Ambassador Mark Palmer. Formerly, Dr.

A country or territory’s Freedom in the World status depends on its aggregate Political Rights score, on a scale of 0–40, and its aggregate Civil Liberties score, on a scale of 0–60. See the ...

Ethiopia received a downward trend arrow due to the security forces’ disproportionate and often violent response to massive, primarily peaceful antigovernment protests in the Oromia and Amhara regions ...

A country or territory’s Freedom in the World status depends on its aggregate Political Rights score, on a scale of 0–40, and its aggregate Civil Liberties score, on a scale of 0–60. See the ...

Freedom House’s new 85th anniversary campaign, aimed at raising $85 million—will propel the organization’s efforts to ...

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 ...

In a Q&A with Freedom House, Abdulhakim Idris, head of the Center for Uyghur Studies, discusses his work exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s repression and how Chinese authorities have menaced him ...

According to the 2026 edition of Freedom in the World, media freedom, personal expression, and due process registered the most severe deterioration over the last two decades. Freedom declined globally ...

Co-Chairman Smith, Co-Chairman McGovern, and esteemed members of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, thank you for organizing this important hearing. I appreciate the opportunity to testify before ...