President Noboa was elected to fight spiraling gang violence, but serious abuses are being reported under his crackdown.

Given the Cameroonian government’s ongoing persecution and arbitrary detention of journalists, the country has failed to meet a US statutory requirement on progress toward the rule of law and the ...

Ten years after the Chinese government’s widespread crackdown on human rights lawyers, concerned governments and the United Nations should establish an independent, international investigation into ...

We, the undersigned organizations, are deeply alarmed by the news that Egyptian academic and U.S. lawful permanent resident Dr. Salah Soltan is enduring a potentially life-threatening medical crisis ...

China conducts the most sophisticated, global, and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression in the world.

Transnational repression threatens security and human rights. The more we know about who is committing it and how, the better we can fight to end it.

The international spotlight is on Qatar for the 2022 World Cup. It’s not only the football matches that are receiving global attention, but also Qatar’s harrowing human rights record. To fully ...

Despite mass protests in every region, world suffers 14th consecutive year of deterioration in political rights and civil liberties. Washington - March 4, 2020 — Democracy is under assault around the ...

Authoritarian rulers around the world are leading attacks on women’s rights. Today’s dual phenomena of eroding democracy and resurgent nationalism are creating new incentives for illiberal and ...

WASHINGTON—While advances in artificial intelligence (AI) offer benefits for society, they have also been used to increase the scale and efficiency of digital repression. According to Freedom House’s ...

WASHINGTON—Political violence and manipulation of elections, ongoing armed conflicts, and deepening repression in 2024 resulted in the 19th consecutive year of decline in global freedom, according to ...