A CDM analysis of 2,970 Douyin posts about protest in China published from June to December 2025 found that two-thirds had been deleted. The highest rates of censorship are associated with posts about ...

Thanks to the generous support of donors like you, Freedom House relaunched the China Dissent Monitor! But we still need your continued support to keep the project running well into 2026 and beyond.

Freedom in the World 2023 marked the 17th consecutive year of decline in global freedom. See this year's regional trends, status changes, and report data. Freedom in the World rates people’s access to ...

Maurice A. Perkins is the Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at the Transamerica Corporation, overseeing all corporate communications, brand marketing, and global government affairs teams. Prior to ...

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Aimee Wenyue Chen is the Program Manager for Europe & Eurasia Programs at Freedom House. In her role, she focuses on Freedom House's programmatic strategy in Armenia and Ukraine, which has programming ...

A growing number of leaders in Central and Eastern Europe have dropped even the pretense of playing by the rules of democracy. As the democratic consensus of the post–Cold War order has given way to ...

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 ...

Hungary’s political rights rating declined from 2 to 3 due to government practices that curtailed the ability of the opposition to freely and meaningfully participate in the formal political system, ...

This special report details how the Belarusian regime displaces, indoctrinates, reeducates, and militarizes Ukrainian children in the service of the broader Russian state policy of eradicating ...

The Russian government conducts highly aggressive transnational repression activities abroad. The Russian government conducts highly aggressive transnational repression activities abroad. Its campaign ...