Freedom House is piloting a new research initiative to investigate the interplay between digital platforms and election integrity. Recent events have confirmed that the internet can be used to disrupt ...

CDM tracks and organizes information that is critical for anyone with an interest in understanding China’s economy, society, ...

Research and advocacy by an expanding network of civil society organizations have spurred democracies to combat transnational repression. Laying the foundation: In recent years, the Group of Seven (G7 ...

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 ...

This article was first published on Just Security. As Sudan marks two years since the eruption of war between rival military factions—the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ...

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 ...

Transnational repression threatens security and human rights. The more we know about who is committing it and how, the better we can fight to end it. Transnational repression—the tactics used by ...

Freedom House recorded more than 1,200 incidents of physical transnational repression during the last decade. WASHINGTON—In 2024, 23 governments reached across borders to silence exiled political ...

The yearslong effort to sow doubt about America’s generally free and fair elections poses real risks for the 2024 balloting. But a growing network of trust-builders aims to restore public confidence ...

Authoritarian governments use a variety of restrictions on travel to make life harder for those living under their rule and for exiled dissidents. Democratic countries that host exiles can do more to ...

Last week, Paris kicked off the 2024 Summer Olympics with a rain-soaked but dazzling opening ceremony. Since their inception more than a century ago, the modern Olympic Games have become one of the ...