The yearslong effort to sow doubt about America’s generally free and fair elections poses real risks for the 2024 balloting.

The arrest of a former top aide to New York’s governor reinforces the need for vigilance and strong enforcement, but a successful response will also depend on legal reforms and community trust. On ...

Repression abroad does not stay abroad. A freedom-focused foreign policy can protect fundamental rights and make Americans more secure.

HRHF and several INGOs wrote to member and observer states of the UN Human Rights Council urging their support for the renewal of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights ...

Ahead of hosting the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Freedom House joined partners in calling on Saudi Arabia to free all individuals arbitrarily detained ...

Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 210 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in the World report. Individual freedoms—ranging from the right ...

What was once a liberating technology has become a conduit for surveillance and electoral manipulation. Internet freedom is increasingly imperiled by the tools and tactics of digital authoritarianism, ...

Protecting and Promoting Internet Freedom For Policymakers Protect privacy and security Strictly regulate the use of surveillance tools and personal-data collection by government and law enforcement ...

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 ...

This report examines what helps and hurts civic mobilizations in authoritarian countries and provides insight on how these mobilizations grow. How Civic Mobilizations Grow in Authoritarian Contexts is ...

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 ...