《 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 ...

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

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 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 ...

“At the same time, it is also clear that millions of people in the United States use TikTok to express themselves, access ...

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 ...

All parties should adhere to its terms and work toward a future in which both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace, ...

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 ...

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 following countries—and one territory—featured important developments in 2020 that affected their democratic trajectory, and deserve special scrutiny in 2021. The road to an open democratic ...