Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the detention of prominent Vietnamese journalist, writer and woman human rights defender Pham Doan Trang, an international coalition of non-governmental organisations ...

“Rather than strengthening protections against cybercrime, the UN Convention Against Cybercrime expands government authority ...

After two years of devastation, the right of Palestinians and Israelis to live in peace and freedom cannot be postponed any ...

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 ...

Five decades of country-by-country analysis in Freedom in the World has confirmed a remarkable fact: once countries earn the designation of Free, they tend to keep it. Freedom in the World evaluates ...

Far-right extremism represents a threat to the democratic development of Ukrainian society. The brief provides an overview of the activities and influence of the far right, differentiating between ...

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 ...

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“After 2009, everything changed. Now the rule is, if I go to your house, read some Quran, pray together, and the government finds out, you go to jail.” —Barna, Uighur woman from Xinjiang now living in ...

Freedom House, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and the McCain Institute have formed a bipartisan Task Force on US Strategy to Support Democracy and Counter Authoritarianism.

The Saudi Arabian government is perhaps the best known in the world for targeting its nationals abroad. The Saudi Arabian government is perhaps the best known in the world for targeting its nationals ...