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 ...
Amid rising authoritarianism and a wavering international commitment to human rights, the latest wave of protests in Iran is ...
A recent attack on two Venezuelan activists in Bogotá underscores the vulnerability of President Nicolás Maduro’s critics who have been driven into exile. Strengthening Responses: Colombia and other ...
Masha Donnelly is a Senior Program Officer working on Europe and Eurasia at Freedom House, where she manages programs focused on Russia and Belarus, supporting human rights defenders, countering ...
This piece was first published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In March, officials at the US State Department revealed that they would use artificial intelligence to revoke the visas of “foreign ...
Around the world, autocrats are detaining, prosecuting, and imprisoning legal and judicial professionals as part of a larger assault on the rule of law. In January 2025, a Russian court sentenced ...
The 52nd edition of Freedom in the World finds that 60 countries experienced declines in their political rights and civil liberties, while only 34 registered improvements. WASHINGTON—Political ...
To Freedom House’s friends and supporters: With roughly half the world’s population voting in elections in 2024, we knew it would be a consequential year for democracy and freedom. The polls took ...
Freedom House and partners found that Azerbaijani authorities waged a deliberate campaign to empty Nagorno-Karabakh of its ethnic Armenian population. WASHINGTON—The Azerbaijani regime engaged in ...
Authoritarian regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean have long used political imprisonment to silence opposition and dissent. The world’s democracies must come together to help combat such ...
Though the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has raised questions about the political future of the country’s regime, little is likely to change. President Raisi’s death comes against a ...
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