Freedom House research has found that exiles living in more than 100 countries have been targeted with assassinations, abductions, assaults, and other brutal transnational repression tactics.

"The Russian Federation actively, without wasting time, destroyed all dissent, activism, journalism, and justice in Crimea. .

Governments around the world are increasingly exerting control over the technology that people depend on to access the free and open internet.

Michael Chertoff is the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of The Chertoff Group, a global advisory firm that provides business strategy, risk management, and mergers and acquisition (M&A) advisory ...

Idris Khattak has been imprisoned for more than five years for his work defending Pakistan’s Pashtun ethnic minority from ...

Fostering democratic progress abroad is a cost-effective way to improve regional and global security and reduce the likelihood of future conflicts.

Even as Americans remain committed to the ideals of democracy, a majority see democracy in the United States as weak and getting weaker, according to a national survey jointly commissioned by Freedom ...

Newsrooms across Europe face significant pressure. They are having to find new ways to fund independent reporting and defend journalistic integrity amid a rising tide of disinformation, while powerful ...

The ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 7 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 1 the lowest. The Democracy Score is an average of ratings for the categories tracked in a ...