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 ...

Overview The slight improvements in political rights and civil liberties that Sri Lanka experienced after the 2015 election of President Maithripala Sirisena were stalled after Gotabaya Rajapaksa ...

Protecting and Promoting Internet Freedom For Policymakers Protect privacy and security Strictly regulate the use of surveillance tools and personal-data collection by government and law enforcement ...

Freedom in the World is an annual global report on political rights and civil liberties, composed of numerical ratings and descriptive texts for each country and a select group of territories. The ...

The United States must develop a revised and improved policy on Iran—one with bipartisan support that will ensure sustained implementation—to reduce the flow of funds to the Iranian regime, thereby ...

The Dominican Republic holds regular elections that are relatively free. Pervasive corruption undermines state institutions and the use of excessive force by police is a problem. Discrimination ...

Recommendations for improving the United States' response to transnational repression at home and abroad Raising awareness about the threat of transnational repression Ensure that law enforcement ...

Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist, author, and women’s rights and political activist who left Iran in 2009 and lives in the United States. In July 2021, the US Department of Justice revealed a ...

With each year of global decline in freedom, it has become more urgent for democracies to work together to halt and roll back the deterioration. The events of this period have demonstrated, again and ...

Nations in Transit 2020: Table of Contents Dropping the Democratic Facade Justice in the Service of Politics Legislature on the Sidelines Fragile Institutions Open the Door for Chinese Communist Party ...

About the Report Since 1973, Freedom House has assessed the condition of political rights and civil liberties around the world. It is used on a regular basis by policymakers, journalists, academics, ...

4. Human rights implications Data privacy is essential to the protection and enjoyment of human rights. Domestic data storage requirements place users’ data firmly in the legal purview of governments, ...