Dictatorial regimes are retaliating against democratic activists who talk to foreign governments and international bodies.
As the world celebrates the release of hundreds of Belarusian political prisoners, Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime continues ...
People across China persistently express discontent through “lying flat” and public protest. Recent propaganda and censorship efforts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have revealed an urgent ...
WASHINGTON—Freedom House is pleased to announce that journalist Margaret Hoover and former US Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman are joining the Freedom House Board. “On behalf of the entire Freedom ...
Six new governments—those of Afghanistan, Benin, Georgia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe—were identified for the first time as using transnational repression tactics. WASHINGTON—Thirty governments ...
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 ...
The future of internet freedom will depend on how governments regulate and deploy the next wave of artificial intelligence and other rapidly evolving technologies. “Global internet freedom has ...
Starting in the summer of 2024, internet users in Pakistan experienced something mysterious. Messages to friends and family on WhatsApp, the most popular social media platform in the country, often ...
Freedom House has been tracking how governments across the world, over the past two decades, have increasingly used regulations, laws, and discrediting narratives to restrict civic space and the ...
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