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The two countries should build on recent progress by coordinating cross-agency efforts and strengthening resilience among targeted diaspora communities.
US Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Roger F. Wicker (R-MS) each received Freedom House’s Leadership Award, which recognizes outstanding dedication to principled US leadership on the world stage and ...
Freedom House recognized a distinguished slate of advocates for democracy and freedom around the globe at its Annual Awards in Washington, DC. Award recipients included Venezuelan democratic movement ...
The national security arrests and subsequent closure of the Apple Daily newspaper in Hong Kong in June 2021 marked the lowest point for press freedom in the territory in recent memory. Under the new ...
Each scorecard below features a country’s Freedom in the World rating and score, Freedom on the Net rating and score (where applicable), and areas of concern in political rights and civil liberties ...
In this issue: Chinese social media platforms flooded with antisemitism, banned photos from the Asian Games, a rollback on data export rules, and life sentence for a Uyghur scholar. Meanwhile, police ...
Global internet freedom declined for the 13th consecutive year as conditions deteriorated in 29 countries and improved in 20 others. The report finds that while innovations in AI contributed to the ...
The 51st edition of Freedom in the World finds that only 21 countries recorded improvements in 2023, while 52 suffered declines. WASHINGTON—Global freedom declined for an 18th consecutive year in 2023 ...
Freedom House and partners found that Azerbaijani authorities waged a deliberate campaign to empty Nagorno-Karabakh of its ethnic Armenian population. WASHINGTON—The Azerbaijani regime engaged in ...
Freedom in the World 2021 finds that the annual gap between losses and gains widened in 2020, and fewer than a fifth of the world’s people now live in fully Free countries. Washington - March 3, 2021 ...