President Noboa was elected to fight spiraling gang violence, but serious abuses are being reported under his crackdown.

Given the Cameroonian government’s ongoing persecution and arbitrary detention of journalists, the country has failed to meet a US statutory requirement on progress toward the rule of law and the ...

Ten years after the Chinese government’s widespread crackdown on human rights lawyers, concerned governments and the United Nations should establish an independent, international investigation into ...

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.

Perspectives June 20, 2025 In the Quest for Peace in Ukraine, the World Must Not Forget Those Living in Russian-Occupied Crimea ...

Perspectives May 21, 2025 Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Built on AI Surveillance and Disregard for Due Process ...

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people.

The former Royal Mint in London, where the Chinese government hopes to construct a new "super embassy." Rights advocates fear the new embassy would enable Beijing's campaign of transnational ...

WASHINGTON—Political violence and manipulation of elections, ongoing armed conflicts, and deepening repression in 2024 resulted in the 19th consecutive year of decline in global freedom, according to ...

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.

WASHINGTON—The Azerbaijani regime engaged in ethnic cleansing against the ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, according to a report released today from an international fact-finding ...