While the Awami League’s 2024 election victory left a cloud of uncertainty, it has also created opportunities to improve democracy in Bangladesh.

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. Visible and Invisible Bars, a report from Free Them All ...

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. Visible and Invisible Bars, a report from Free Them All ...

Nations in Transit 2024 explained whether different kinds of Hybrid Regimes are democratizing or becoming more restrictive, and why. We reviewed new books about three of these important countries: ...

WASHINGTON—Today, the McCain Institute, George W. Bush Institute, and Freedom House called on the United States and European allies to impose restrictions and sanctions on Georgian Dream officials and ...

As director of Africa programs at Freedom House, Pacheco will lead the organization’s activities in and related to Africa, including overseeing the development and implementation of donor-funded ...

Ahead of the sixth anniversary of his arrest, Freedom House is honored to publish a letter authored by Server Mustafayev, a Crimean Tatar human rights defender.

With former president Donald Trump facing criminal charges in four separate federal and state cases, much has been said about the “unprecedented” nature of this moment: never before has a US president ...

Once democratic institutions have been dismantled by rigged elections, coups, or power grabs, it is difficult—though not impossible—to reconstruct them. Global freedom has declined for 18 consecutive ...

The Gambia was ruled for over two decades by former president Yahya Jammeh, who mounted a bloodless coup in 1994 and consistently violated political rights and civil liberties. The 2016 election ...