Senior government, business, civil society, and philanthropic leaders joined the Global Freedom Summit; a Declaration of ...

(Beirut, November 10, 2025) – The United States government, including Congress, should address Saudi Arabia’s human rights ...

Al-Khalidi has been trapped in a prolonged asylum process in Bulgaria since November 2021 and has faced a deportation order since 2024. On 15 July 2025 Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court rejected ...

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 ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a federation of seven emirates. Limited elections are held for a federal advisory body, but political parties are banned, and all executive, legislative, and judicial ...

Scores are based on a scale of 0 (least free) to 100 (most free). See the methodology and report acknowledgements. France registered a minor improvement in internet freedom during the coverage period.

Conditions in Nagorno-Karabakh were examined in a separate report through the 2024 edition of Freedom in the World, in which the territory’s status declined from Partly Free to Not Free due to an ...

Freedom continued to decline in Africa in 2024, with political rights and civil liberties deteriorating in 21 out of 54 countries, while only 8 registered improvements. Sudan’s score declined by 4 ...

In 2023, Freedom House assisted more than 15,000 human rights activists, organizations, journalists, children and youth, and others at-risk more than 90 countries. Here's how we worked to expand and ...

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