Laura Schroeder is Deputy Director, Policy and Advocacy focusing on countering transnational repression. In this role, she engages with democratic governments around the world to bolster their ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

El 14 de enero del año en curso, un día después de la decisión de la CSJ, el Tribunal Noveno de Sentencia resolvió mantener la medida de arresto domiciliario dictada a favor de Zamora en sintonía con ...

The Freedom on the Net index measures each country’s level of internet freedom based on a set of methodology questions. The methodology is developed in consultation with international experts to ...

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. In what was a consequential year for freedom and ...

Freedom House is led by Interim Copresidents Annie Wilcox Boyajian and Gerardo Berthin. The daily work of the organization is conducted by its approximately 300 staff members in Washington, New York, ...

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 ...

A growing number of leaders in Central and Eastern Europe have dropped even the pretense of playing by the rules of democracy. As the democratic consensus of the post–Cold War order has given way to ...

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