“Rather than strengthening protections against cybercrime, the UN Convention Against Cybercrime expands government authority ...

Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the detention of prominent Vietnamese journalist, writer and woman human rights defender Pham Doan Trang, an international coalition of non-governmental organisations ...

The Australian government has shown awareness of transnational repression and conducted outreach to diaspora communities, but the country’s legislative and sanctions framework are in need of reform to ...

Saudi Arabia’s absolute monarchy restricts almost all political rights and civil liberties. No officials at the national level are elected. The regime relies on pervasive surveillance, the ...

The Chinese government’s media influence efforts have increased since 2019 in most of the 30 countries under study, but democratic pushback has often curbed their impact. The Chinese government, under ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a federation of seven emirates. Limited elections are held for a federal advisory body, but political parties are banned, and all executive, legislative, and judicial ...

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The mechanism seeks to assess the needs of Afghan human rights defenders and channel support to them, coordinate and share information among those responding to the crisis, and bring together Afghan ...

The Gambia’s political rights rating improved from 7 to 6 due to opposition candidate Adama Barrow’s victory in the December 2016 presidential election, though the incumbent, Yahya Jammeh, was ...

Matthew Barak is a Research Associate at Freedom House, primarily covering the Americas for Freedom in the World and Freedom on the Net. He was the 2021-22 Freedom in the World Junior Fellow for ...

Anne C. Richard joined Freedom House as a Distinguished Fellow in October 2021 and helped launch the Afghanistan Human Rights Coordination Mechanism before stepping down at the end of June 2024.

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