Freedom House is seeking nominations for the 2026 Mark Palmer Prize, which recognizes the work of officials who advance democracy and human rights.

The support will help sustain Freedom House’s flagship annual report, which tracks the status of political rights and civil liberties around the world.

Charlie Kirk’s murder in Utah is the latest in a series of attacks that threaten the basic operations of American politics, governance, and civil discourse.

Democratic governments should not be fooled by Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s recent attempts to curry favor with the United States.

On 5 September 2025, Freedom House, HRHF and several INGOs wrote to member and observer states of the UN Human Rights Council urging their support for the renewal of the mandate of the Special ...

It was announced in January that Mubarak Bala, a Nigerian humanist leader, had been released from prison in August 2024 after more than four years of unjust detention for expressing his views on ...

President Noboa was elected to fight spiraling gang violence, but serious abuses are being reported under his crackdown. Noboa’s emergency declaration in 2024 followed a years-long security breakdown ...

On May 20, Freedom House presented its inaugural Alfred Moses Liberty Award to Server Mustafayev, a Crimean Tatar human rights defender who has been unjustly imprisoned by Russian authorities since ...

Around the world, autocrats are detaining, prosecuting, and imprisoning legal and judicial professionals as part of a larger assault on the rule of law. In January 2025, a Russian court sentenced ...

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 ...

The 52nd edition of Freedom in the World finds that 60 countries experienced declines in their political rights and civil liberties, while only 34 registered improvements. WASHINGTON—Political ...