WASHINGTON —In response to the recent passing of former Freedom House trustee Morton Abramowitz, the organization’s interim president, Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, issued the following statement: ...

After stealing Belarus’s 2020 presidential election, Alyaksandr Lukashenka forced many independent media organizations into ...

To access the internet, users in unfree countries rely on circumvention tools that are increasingly targeted by repressive ...

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A 27 percent year-on-year increase in dissent events. CDM logged 937 dissent events in the third quarter of 2024, a 27 percent increase over the same period in 2023. The majority of these protests are ...

Turkey’s government is improperly using its leverage over media to limit public debate about government actions and punish journalists and media owners who dispute government claims, deepening the ...

Join us for a Twitter Space focused on uncovering Belarus’s role in Russia’s efforts to displace, indoctrinate, and militarize children from occupied Ukraine. Freedom House's Ukraine Program Director ...

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. Around the world, voters have been forced to make major ...

We, the undersigned free expression and human rights organizations, write to you in response to the recent news that jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi is in urgent need of ...