Freedom in the World assigns a freedom score and status to 210 countries and territories. Click on the countries to learn more.

After stealing Belarus’s 2020 presidential election, Alyaksandr Lukashenka forced many independent media organizations into exile. Among them was Nasha Niva, Belarus’s oldest newspaper and a protector ...

To access the internet, users in unfree countries rely on circumvention tools that are increasingly targeted by repressive ...

A 27 percent year-on-year increase in dissent events. CDM logged 937 dissent events in the third quarter of 2024, a 27 percent increase over the same period in 2023. The majority of these protests are ...

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. Around the world, voters have been forced to make major ...

We, the undersigned free expression and human rights organizations, write to you in response to the recent news that jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi is in urgent need of ...

In today’s world, autocrats appear to offer simple solutions to governance problems. The EU should avoid the temptation to ...

As director of the Fred Hiatt Program, Tronic will lead Freedom House’s efforts to secure the release of political prisoners, support their families, and promote democratic freedoms by raising ...

The pandemic is fueling digital repression worldwide. The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a dramatic decline in global internet freedom. For the 10th consecutive year, users have experienced an ...

Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank entails onerous physical barriers and constraints on movement, demolition of homes and other physical infrastructure, restrictions on political rights and ...

The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system, a strong rule-of-law tradition, robust freedoms of expression and religious belief, and a wide array of ...

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