After two years of devastation, the right of Palestinians and Israelis to live in peace and freedom cannot be postponed any ...

Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the detention of prominent Vietnamese journalist, writer and woman human rights defender Pham Doan Trang, an international coalition of non-governmental organisations ...

“Rather than strengthening protections against cybercrime, the UN Convention Against Cybercrime expands government authority in ways that threaten freedom of expression, privacy, and the safety of ...

The Australian government has shown awareness of transnational repression and conducted outreach to diaspora communities, but ...

Citizens in China are speaking out when their rights are violated. Freedom House’s China Dissent Monitor analyzes these protest actions—often uncovering broader trends in China’s politics and economy ...

This piece was first published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In March, officials at the US State Department revealed that they would use artificial intelligence to revoke the visas of “foreign ...

This article was first published on Just Security. As Sudan marks two years since the eruption of war between rival military factions—the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ...

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. Transnational repression—the tactics used by ...

To access the internet, users in unfree countries rely on circumvention tools that are increasingly targeted by repressive rulers. Democratic governments and technology companies can do more to keep ...

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 ...

Press freedom is a core element of democracy, ensuring that independent journalists can hold officials accountable to the public and provide both voters and leaders with the facts they need to make ...

Authoritarian governments use a variety of restrictions on travel to make life harder for those living under their rule and for exiled dissidents. Democratic countries that host exiles can do more to ...