Freedom House was founded in 1941 by a group of concerned citizens led by Eleanor Roosevelt, a Democrat, and Wendell Willkie, ...

Freedom House is seeking motivated candidates interested in analyzing democracy for the eight-month Freedom in the World 2025-2026 Junior Fellowship program. Freedom House is seeking motivated ...

Governments are using the pandemic as a pretext to crack down on free expression and access to information. Information can be the difference between life and death. The coronavirus pandemic has ...

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 ...

Despite the resignation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev—the country’s only president since its independence in 1991—Kazakhstan remained a consolidated authoritarian state in 2019. Nazarbayev ...

Freedom House works to assist civil society to defend and advance fundamental freedoms and rights enshrined in Turkey’s national and international obligations. Turkey remains one of most challenging ...

Scores are based on a scale of 0 (least free) to 100 (most free). See the research methodology and report acknowledgements. Although the online environment in Armenia remains open, internet freedom ...

Five decades of country-by-country analysis in Freedom in the World has confirmed a remarkable fact: once countries earn the designation of Free, they tend to keep it. Freedom in the World evaluates ...

Amid declining faith in the international system, a different form of protectionism is gaining steam with adverse consequences for billions of internet users. Authorities in a growing number of ...