《 2021年世界自由度报告》发现，到2020年，衰退与成长之间的年度差距扩大，现在世界上只有不到五分之一的人口生活在完全自由的国家中。 The new law, which is expected to take effect in October, would impose stringent requirements on social media companies and bolster ...

Tsi Conrad, a Cameroonian journalist who has been unjustly imprisoned since December 2016, is hopeful that President Donald Trump will continue to call out the Biya regime’s abuses and push for ...

While the release of prisoners is a step in the right direction, the Cuban regime’s broader human rights abuses remain deeply troubling.

Trump’s pardons and sentence commutations for January 6 attackers aim to excuse a violent assault on a key element of ...

The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system, a strong rule-of-law tradition, robust freedoms of expression and religious belief, and a wide array of ...

The ability to forge broad and diverse coalitions is a signature asset of democratic politics, and it is needed now more than ...

The pandemic is fueling digital repression worldwide. The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a dramatic decline in global internet freedom. For the 10th consecutive year, users have experienced an ...

No inauguration ceremony can legitimize Maduro’s fraudulent claim to have won the July 2024 presidential election.

Democracy and pluralism are under assault. Democracy and pluralism are under assault. Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new ...

Media freedom has been deteriorating around the world over the past decade. In some of the most influential democracies in the world, populist leaders have overseen concerted attempts to throttle the ...

Governments are increasingly purchasing sophisticated technology to monitor their citizens’ behavior on social media. Once the preserve of the world’s foremost intelligence agencies, this form of mass ...

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 ...