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Freedom in the World 2025: The Uphill Battle to Safeguard Rights
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2025), 29 pp.
Freedom on the Net 2024: The Struggle for Trust Online
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2024), 43 pp.
Visible and Invisible Bars: Political Imprisonment, Civil Death, and the Consequences of Democratic Erosion
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2024), 32 pp.
A Light That Cannot Be Extinguished: Exiled Journalism and Transnational Repression
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2023), 18 pp.
"1. Increasing attacks on independent media globally are forcing journalists to flee their home countries. Working from abroad, these reporters remain crucial sources of information about some of the world’s most authoritarian countries. But safety in exile is not guaranteed.
2. At least 26 govern
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Reviving News Media in an Embattled Europe
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2023), 33 pp.
"La Evaluación de Necesidades de Información (INA) de la población migrante venezolana en el Área Metropolitana de Bucaramanga, Santander, se realizó entre noviembre de 2021 y marzo de 2022 bajo la metodología propia de Internews, en el marco del Programa Conectando Caminos por los Derechos de
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Defending Democracy in Exile: Policy Responses to Transnational Repression
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2022), 42 pp.
"Transnational repression is strategically employed by autocrats, enabled by underprepared host governments, and spreading rapidly around the world. This report aims to assess the strengths and weaknesses in the global understanding of and responses to transnational repression, so that governments,
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Freedom on the Net 2022: Countering an Authoritarian Overhaul of the Internet
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2022), 46 pp.
"1. Global internet freedom declined for the 12th consecutive year. The sharpest downgrades were documented in Russia, Myanmar, Sudan, and Libya. Following the Russian military’s illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin dramatically intensified its ongoing efforts to suppress domest
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Beijing's Global Media Influence: Authoritarian Expansion and the Power of Democratic Resilience
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2022), 79 pp.
"This report offers the most comprehensive assessment to date of Beijing’s global media influence and the ways in which democracies are responding. Drawing on media investigations, interviews, scholarly publications, Chinese government sources, and on-the-ground research by local analysts, it cove
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Out of Sight, Not Out of Reach: The Global Scale and Scope of Transnational Repression
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2021), 74 pp.
"This report is the product of an effort to understand the scale and scope of “transnational repression,” in which governments reach across national borders to silence dissent among their diaspora and exile communities. Freedom House assembled cases of transnational repression from public source
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Report on Media Freedom in Moldova
Freedom House; USAID (2021), 11 pp.
"The media sector in Moldova is diverse. Dogged investigative reporting plays a vital role in public life. However, the legal framework governing the sector is unstable and underdeveloped. In 2020, much of the country’s political class treated the independent press with hostility, viewing journali
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Freedom on the Net 2021: The Global Drive to Control Big Tech
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2021), 41 pp.
"1. Global internet freedom declined for the 11th consecutive year. The greatest deteriorations were documented in Myanmar, Belarus, and Uganda, where state forces cracked down amid electoral and constitutional crises. Myanmar’s 14-point score decline is the largest registered since the Freedom on
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Freedom on the Net 2020: The Pandemic's Digital Shadow
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2020), 33 pp.
"Three notable trends punctuated an especially dismal year for internet freedom. First, political leaders used the pandemic as a pretext to limit access to information. Authorities often blocked independent news sites and arrested individuals on spurious charges of spreading false news. In many plac
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Beijing’s Global Megaphone: The Expansion of Chinese Communist Party Media Influence Since 2017
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2020), 29 pp.
Media Policy in a Pandemic: Lessons from Moldova, Ukraine and Latvia
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2020), 8 pp.
Advocacy in restricted spaces: A toolkit for civil society organizations
Key Guides
Lifeline Fund for Embattled CSOs; Freedom House (2020), 46 pp.
"There are many valuable resources on how to conduct advocacy that provide a detailed, step-by-step approach. These approaches include best practices for identifying stakeholders, developing a message, or planning a timeline. We will not go deeply into these topics, but we do want to provide an intr
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Investigative Journalism and its Role in Ukraine’s Democracy
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2020), 5 pp.
"Chinese authorities influence news media content around the world through three primary strategies: promoting the CCP’s narratives, suppressing critical viewpoints, and managing content delivery systems. These efforts have already undercut key features of democratic governance and best practices
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