President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), which have ruled Turkey since 2002, have become increasingly authoritarian in recent years, consolidating significant power through constitutional changes and by imprisoning opponents and critics.

Register. Join us for the launch of Freedom in the World 2025, Freedom House's flagship report which has been tracking global trends in political rights and civil liberties annually since 1973.. The event will feature the authors presenting key report findings, including assessing the impact of ongoing armed conflicts and the global year of elections on …

There is no transparency in Taliban governance and decision-making. Transparency around the public contracting process has been ended. The Taliban have severely restricted the volume of public finance information that they publish.

Investigations into the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election continued throughout the year, leading to hundreds of new convictions linked to the January 2021 attack on the Capitol, in which supporters of then president Donald Trump violently disrupted congressional certification of Joseph Biden’s victory.

Singapore has a multiparty political system, and 11 parties contested the 2020 parliamentary elections. However, a variety of factors have helped to ensure the PAP’s dominant position, including an electoral framework that favors incumbents, restrictions on political films and television programs, the threat of defamation suits, the …

In what was a consequential year for freedom and democracy around the globe, Freedom House provided millions of dollars of support to human rights defenders in 132 countries, championed free and independent media, monitored elections …

The numerical scores and status listed above do not reflect conditions in Hong Kong or Tibet, which are examined in separate reports. Freedom in the World reports assess the level of political rights and civil liberties in a given geographical area, regardless of whether they are affected by the state, nonstate actors, or foreign powers. Territories are sometimes assessed separately if …

Mexico has been an electoral democracy since 2000, and alternation in power between parties is routine at both the federal and state levels. However, the country suffers from severe rule of law deficits that limit full citizen enjoyment of political rights and civil liberties.

In February, legislators selected 15 Supreme Court justices who will serve until 2030. A nominating body had offered a merit-based list of candidates to the National Congress in January, but legislators selected justices from that list on a partisan basis.

Brazil is a democracy that holds competitive elections, and the political arena, though polarized, is characterized by vibrant public debate. However, independent journalists and civil society activists risk harassment and violent attack, political violence is high, and the government has struggled to address crime and disproportionate violence against and economic exclusion of minorities.