Analysts pointed to 2024 as an unprecedented year in global democracy, with about half the world’s population living in countries that staged elections. But the ubiquity of voting is not the most ...

Global freedom has declined for the nineteenth consecutive year in 2024 with several countries experiencing significant deterioration in their political rights and civil liberties, according to ...

The annual report on “Freedom in the World” from Freedom House ... of civil liberties in each society - and provide a detailed map of how a generation’s democratic advancement is in slow ...