Yu Wensheng and his wife Xu Yan are prominent advocates for rule of law and human rights in China. As a result, they have ...

Freedom of religion or belief is a fundamental human right that protects the practice of any or no religion. It ensures ...

Below, Alagaş discusses the situation for journalists in Turkey, her own persecution by Turkish authorities, and what ...

The ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 7 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 1 the lowest. The Democracy Score is an average of ratings for the categories tracked in a ...

Hamas’s massive terrorist attack on October 7 and Israel’s ensuing military campaign in the Gaza Strip caused catastrophic human suffering. The conflict, which threatened to metastasize into a wider ...

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 ...

Rory MacFarquhar is currently Senior Vice President for International Institutions Engagement at Mastercard. He served for six years in the National Security Council and Treasury Department during the ...

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Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank entails onerous physical barriers and constraints on movement, demolition of homes and other physical infrastructure, restrictions on political rights and ...

Kuwait’s status declined from Partly Free to Not Free because the emir unilaterally dissolved the elected parliament and unconstitutionally suspended any new elections, leaving the country without a ...