Guatemala: International organizations demand freedom for Jose Rubén Zamora and urgent guarantees of due process ...

Courageous rights defenders are jailed all over the world for speaking truth to power. Freedom House documents their cases ...

Global freedom statuses are calculated on a weighted scale. See the methodology. * Indicates a territory as opposed to an independent country. The full Freedom in the World 2025 narrative report for ...

Democracies, as a matter of their own survival, must demonstrate basic solidarity and prevent the outright conquest of other free societies by authoritarian powers. With each year of global decline in ...

The 52nd edition of Freedom in the World finds that 60 countries experienced declines in their political rights and civil liberties, while only 34 registered improvements. WASHINGTON—Political ...

Conditions in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine were assessed in a single report for the first time in the 2025 edition of Freedom in the World. While previous editions assessed Crimea and ...

Vladimir Putin and his enablers must be held accountable for violations of international law and national sovereignty. WASHINGTON—On the third anniversary of the Russian military’s full-scale invasion ...

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