Autocrats have taken the helm of the UN Cybercrime Convention and this year’s Internet Governance Forum, part of a much ...

Elections in 2024 presented a mixed picture: largely competitive contests in democracies, sham polls in autocracies, and ...

The Iranian regime’s expansive definition of who constitutes a threat to the Islamic Republic contributes to the breadth and intensity of its transnational repression campaign. The Iranian regime’s ...

The Florida senator has an opportunity to strengthen Donald Trump’s mixed record on holding Beijing accountable for abuses.

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Afghanistan has a progressive constitution marrying its Islamic identity with commitment to a wide range of internationally recognized rights, within the framework of an electoral democracy. In ...

Escalating arrests, raids, and targeted attacks against people exercising their fundamental right to assembly and freedom of ...

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 ...