The elimination of key sections and the diminishment of others will deal a heavy blow to US leadership on human rights, serve the interests of authoritarian powers, and leave policymakers and ...

Citizens in China are speaking out when their rights are violated. Freedom House’s China Dissent Monitor analyzes these protest actions—often uncovering broader trends in China’s politics and economy ...

The Henry M. Jackson Foundation’s gift will help Freedom House continue its efforts to inform, mobilize, and support the ...

Two other prominent human rights defenders, Mohammed al-Qahtani – another ACPRA co-founder – and Essa al-Nukheifi, were held arbitrarily for more than two years beyond their prison terms before being ...

Governments around the world are increasingly exerting control over the technology that people depend on to access the free and open internet. Anti-censorship and encrypted tools are lifelines for ...

International attention helped Mubarak Bala survive his incarceration for discussing humanism and religion online.

On July 31, 2025, PEN America and 10 human rights organizations wrote to the Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. Motaz Zahran urging him to raise our concerns about the detention of poet and PEN/Barbey ...

July 29 marks 1,095 days since the beginning of the arbitrary detention of journalist Jose Rubén Zamora, founder of elPeriódico and one of the most prominent voices in journalism in Guatemala and ...

Freedom House worked to assist civil society to defend and advance fundamental freedoms and rights enshrined in Turkey’s national and international obligations.

Freedom House helps citizens defend their rights against government abuses in several countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Voters in the United Kingdom (UK)—which includes the constituent countries of England, Scotland, and Wales along with the territory of Northern Ireland—will head to the polls on July 4, 2024, for the ...