The support will help sustain Freedom House’s flagship annual report, which tracks the status of political rights and civil liberties around the world.

Democratic governments should not be fooled by Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s recent attempts to curry favor with the United States.

Charlie Kirk’s murder in Utah is the latest in a series of attacks that threaten the basic operations of American politics, ...

On 5 September 2025, Freedom House, HRHF and several INGOs wrote to member and observer states of the UN Human Rights Council urging their support for the renewal of the mandate of the Special ...

Each scorecard below features a country’s Freedom in the World rating and score, Freedom on the Net rating and score (where applicable), and areas of concern in political rights and civil liberties ...

Measures to address racial injustice, special-interest influence, and partisan polarization should be among the top priorities. Today, Freedom House released a special report, From Crisis to Reform: A ...

It is a mistake to view their drift from democracy through a partisan lens. The coronavirus has revived attention and debate on the steady erosion of democratic practice in Hungary and Poland, where ...

This piece was first published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In March, officials at the US State Department revealed that they would use artificial intelligence to revoke the visas of “foreign ...

The international spotlight is on Qatar for the 2022 World Cup. It’s not only the football matches that are receiving global attention, but also Qatar’s harrowing human rights record. To fully ...

The national security arrests and subsequent closure of the Apple Daily newspaper in Hong Kong in June 2021 marked the lowest point for press freedom in the territory in recent memory. Under the new ...

Transnational repression threatens security and human rights. The more we know about who is committing it and how, the better we can fight to end it. Transnational repression—the tactics used by ...