WASHINGTON—Freedom House today announced the appointment of Jamie Fly as its Chief Executive Officer, effective February 2, 2026. A widely respected and experienced leader in the fields of democracy ...

Today, January 24th, marks the International Day of the Endangered Lawyer. In recognition of endangered lawyers around the ...

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 ...

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. Fostering New Dialogue, Innovative Ideas to Energize ...

Meet Y Quynh Bdap, a Christian minority activist suspected of being deported to Vietnam by Thai authorities opens in new tab Know what's happening around the world. Sign up to receive the Freedom ...

This special report documents how ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh were intentionally subjected to regular attacks, intimidation, deprivation of basic rights and adequate living conditions, and ...

The Turkish state’s current campaign of transnational repression is remarkable for its intensity, its geographic reach, and the suddenness with which it escalated. The Turkish state’s current campaign ...

Amid rising authoritarianism and a wavering international commitment to human rights, the latest wave of protests in Iran is ...

Iranians have taken to the streets in rebellion. The vanguard are young women, but they have been joined by men and people of all ages. With breathtaking courage and unarmed, they have kept coming, ...

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 ...

Four legal experts weigh in on two cases at the United States Supreme Court that could alter how the internet functions, how it is governed, and how users engage with it. Former Research Director for ...

Freedom in the World 2021 finds that the annual gap between losses and gains widened in 2020, and fewer than a fifth of the world’s people now live in fully Free countries. Washington - March 3, 2021 ...