Anna Kwok is the executive director of Hong Kong Democracy Council, a nongovernmental organization based in Washington, DC.

Twenty-five governments have agreed to a promising new initiative to combat the irresponsible use of commercial cyber ...

Protecting and Promoting Internet Freedom For Policymakers Protect privacy and security Strictly regulate the use of surveillance tools and personal-data collection by government and law enforcement ...

A country or territory’s Freedom in the World status depends on its aggregate Political Rights score, on a scale of 0–40, and its aggregate Civil Liberties score, on a scale of 0–60. See the ...

Attacks on the rule of law can pave the way for broader abuses of power and the deterioration of fundamental freedoms.

Media freedom has been deteriorating around the world over the past decade. In some of the most influential democracies in the world, populist leaders have overseen concerted attempts to throttle the ...

The Freedom on the Net index measures each country’s level of internet freedom based on a set of methodology questions. The methodology is developed in consultation with international experts to ...

Freedom of the Press provides analytical reports and numerical scores for 199 countries and territories, continuing a process conducted by Freedom House since 1980. Each country and territory is given ...

A growing number of leaders in Central and Eastern Europe have dropped even the pretense of playing by the rules of democracy. As the democratic consensus of the post–Cold War order has given way to ...

Democracy and pluralism are under assault. Democracy and pluralism are under assault. Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new ...

Governments are increasingly purchasing sophisticated technology to monitor their citizens’ behavior on social media. Once the preserve of the world’s foremost intelligence agencies, this form of mass ...

Freedom on the Net 2019 Key Finding: Politicians and hyperpartisans use digital means to manipulate elections. Digital platforms are the new battleground for democracy. Shaping the flow of information ...