The Henry M. Jackson Foundation’s gift will help Freedom House continue its efforts to inform, mobilize, and support the fight for freedom and democracy.

Two other prominent human rights defenders, Mohammed al-Qahtani – another ACPRA co-founder – and Essa al-Nukheifi, were held arbitrarily for more than two years beyond their prison terms before being ...

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people.

Governments around the world are increasingly exerting control over the technology that people depend on to access the free and open internet. Anti-censorship and encrypted tools are lifelines for ...

On July 31, 2025, PEN America and 10 human rights organizations wrote to the Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. Motaz Zahran urging him to raise our concerns about the detention of poet and PEN/Barbey ...

International attention helped Mubarak Bala survive his incarceration for discussing humanism and religion online.

En el año posterior a la toma de posesión del presidente de Guatemala Bernardo Arévalo—un momento decisivo para la democracia del país—Freedom House se unió con orgullo a una delegación internacional ...

July 29 marks 1,095 days since the beginning of the arbitrary detention of journalist Jose Rubén Zamora, founder of elPeriódico and one of the most prominent voices in journalism in Guatemala and ...

Freedom House helps citizens defend their rights against government abuses in several countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

See the Election Watch 2024 score and learn about democracy and freedom in South Africa.

Voters in the United Kingdom (UK)—which includes the constituent countries of England, Scotland, and Wales along with the territory of Northern Ireland—will head to the polls on July 4, 2024, for the ...