The International Day of Political Prisoners originated in the Soviet Union in 1974, when political prisoners collectively held a one-day hunger strike. Soviet prisoners of conscience repeated this ...

However, businesses are increasingly recognizing that they have a role to play in pushing back against authoritarian rule. Since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, more than 1 ...

A Hungarian author, professor, and diplomat, Haraszti has dedicated his career to strengthening human rights and supporting ...

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 ...

Ethiopia has seen dramatic political changes this year, but significant challenges remain. The United States should seize this opportunity to support a genuine democratic transition in a pivotal ...

Five decades of country-by-country analysis in Freedom in the World has confirmed a remarkable fact: once countries earn the designation of Free, they tend to keep it. Freedom in the World evaluates ...

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 ...

A country or territory’s Freedom in the World status depends on its aggregate Political Rights score, on a scale of 0–40, and its aggregate Civil Liberties score, on a scale of 0–60. The total ...

Governments are using the pandemic as a pretext to crack down on free expression and access to information. Information can be the difference between life and death. The coronavirus pandemic has ...

Democracy and pluralism are under assault. Democracy and pluralism are under assault. Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new ...

Nations in Transit evaluated the state of democracy in the region stretching from Central Europe to Central Asia. Nations in Transit 2024 evaluates the state of democracy in the region stretching from ...

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuela’s María Corina Machado for keeping ‘the flame of democracy burning’ opens in new tab Protect the Future of Freedom in the World For over 50 years, Freedom in the ...