WASHINGTON—Freedom House is pleased to announce that journalist Margaret Hoover and former US Ambassador to Hungary David ...

China conducts the most sophisticated, global, and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression in the world. China conducts the most sophisticated, global, and comprehensive campaign of ...

Democracy is in retreat all over the world. More than one-third of the world’s population lives under dictatorships, and political rights and civil liberties have declined every year since 2006.

Tom Kahn is a distinguished faculty fellow at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University and a senior consultant at the Cormac Group, a Washington, DC public affairs ...

Juri Jurkevitš was the Program Director at Freedom House Ukraine, with over two decades of experience in human rights, political advocacy, and international affairs, primarily focusing on Eastern ...

Oman is a hereditary monarchy, and power is concentrated in the hands of Sultan Qaboos bin Said al-Said, who has ruled since 1970. The regime imposes limits on virtually all political rights and civil ...

As Freedom House marks its 85th anniversary, we're asking you to join our Investing in Freedom's Future campaign. Global freedom has been in decline for two decades — and your support will sustain our ...

A native of Afghanistan, Farishta started working for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) more than twenty years ago. She co-founded a women’s rights NGO in Herat in the ...

The cancellation of RightsCon by Zambian authorities—reportedly in response to Chinese government pressure—is not an act of transnational repression (TNR), but it achieves goals of TNR such as ...

As Freedom House marks its 85th anniversary, we're asking you to join our Investing in Freedom's Future campaign. Global freedom has been in decline for two decades — and your support will sustain our ...

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 ...

Governments are increasingly purchasing sophisticated technology to monitor their citizens’ behavior on social media. Once the preserve of the world’s foremost intelligence agencies, this form of mass ...