After stealing Belarus’s 2020 presidential election, Alyaksandr Lukashenka forced many independent media organizations into exile. Among them was Nasha Niva, Belarus’s oldest newspaper and a protector ...

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 t ...

A 27 percent year-on-year increase in dissent events. CDM logged 937 dissent events in the third quarter of 2024, a 27 percent increase over the same period in 2023. The majority of these protests are ...

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. Around the world, voters have been forced to make major ...

Join us for a Twitter Space focused on uncovering Belarus’s role in Russia’s efforts to displace, indoctrinate, and militarize children from occupied Ukraine. Freedom House's Ukraine Program Director ...