"The Russian Federation actively, without wasting time, destroyed all dissent, activism, journalism, and justice in Crimea. .

The country’s authoritarian regime continues to hold more than 1,100 political prisoners in abusive conditions.

WASHINGTON—The Freedom House Executive Board, chaired by Norman Willox, today announced that it has selected Gerardo Berthin and Annie Boyajian to serve as Freedom House’s new presidents. Berthin and ...

Idris Khattak has been imprisoned for more than five years for his work defending Pakistan’s Pashtun ethnic minority from persecution.

Freedom House research has found that exiles living in more than 100 countries have been targeted with assassinations, abductions, assaults, and other brutal transnational repression tactics.

Governments around the world are increasingly exerting control over the technology that people depend on to access the free ...

State narratives: CCP’s voice on 20th Party Congress, Ukraine, and UN high commissioner’s visit. Xi Jinping propaganda ahead of party congress, amidst lockdown chaos: As China’s COVID-19 outbreak ...

Freedom House was founded in 1941 by a group of concerned citizens led by Eleanor Roosevelt, a Democrat, and Wendell Willkie, a Republican, who believed that America’s survival as a free and ...

Media narratives: Propaganda boost for Xi Jinping during party plenum, Taiwan, patriotic bloggers . State media boosts Xi Jinping during high-level CCP meeting: State propaganda surrounding a major ...

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4. Human rights implications. Data privacy is essential to the protection and enjoyment of human rights. Domestic data storage requirements place users’ data firmly in the legal purview of governments ...

Local Democratic Governance rating declined from 1.75 to 1.50 due to the long-term erosion of local government autonomy, which was demonstrated during the 2023 local elections, as well as the failure ...