Through his actions, President Donald J. Trump has violated his oath of office and betrayed the public trust.

China said it will sanction 11 Americans in retaliation for similar measures imposed by the U.S. on Friday, but the list doesn’t include any members of the Trump administration.

Early Warning Project has consistently ranked Ethiopia as one of the highest-risk countries in the world for a new onset of mass killing.

An internal U.S. government report found that people in Tigray are being driven from their homes in a war begun by Ethiopia, an American ally — posing President Biden’s first major test in Africa.

New witness accounts allege that thousands of ethnic Tigrayans have been forcibly expelled, detained or killed in one of the most inaccessible areas of Ethiopia’s yearlong war in the latest wave of...

They should explain why it is acceptable to deprive 705,000 citizens of their rights to full representation in their government.

In response to President Trump’s briefing this evening, the bipartisan National Council on Election Integrity — a group of more than 40 former elected officials, former Cabinet secretaries, retired...

The pre-Christmas wave of 20 pardons and commutations are not likely to be the last before Mr. Trump leaves office on Jan. 20.

On Armenian Remembrance Day, President Biden issued a statement formally recognizing the genocide of Armenians that began on April 24, 1915. 

As a lethal pandemic, economic and physical insecurity, and violent conflict ravaged the world, democracy’s defenders sustained heavy new losses in their struggle against authoritarian foes, shifting...

Christopher Krebs led election security efforts and debunked ballot fraud claims.

Beijing’s campaign of repression is already shaping what we can say, where we can travel, what products we buy, and even the news we read.

The sweeping changes are the latest efforts by Beijing to step up its influence in Hong Kong.

Following a grim tradition, a brave Russian human-rights advocate speaks out before being sent to prison.

Biden shouldn't fall into the trap of treating Russia like a normal country with a normal government. Under Putin, it's a mafia dictatorship.

The Law and Justice party captured the Polish state. Can democracy survive?

The unfounded, politically motivated prison sentence is a travesty of justice and yet another sign of the Kremlin’s return to Stalinist-style repression.

As President Trump and his administration insist he didn’t lose, the rest of the world has increasingly moved to accept Joe Biden’s victory.

Freedom House presented its 2023 Freedom Award to Vladimir Kara-Murza. Kara-Murza, a Russian democratic opposition leader, Washington Post contributor, and h...

Rights campaigners voice concerns as Cuba and Pakistan also expected to be elected

The democratic recession is so severe that autocrats now openly stage coups, steal elections, and invade other countries.

Golden State Warriors owner Chamath Palihapitiya suggested recently that “nobody cares” about China’s human rights abuses against the Uyghur community in Xinjiang.

The president is expected to describe as genocide the deportation, starvation and massacres of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks beginning in 1915, a step that would further inflame ties...

In the age of interconnected technology, living abroad is no guarantee of freedom to dissent.

Myanmar’s military has not used the death penalty in more than 30 years, but amid a violent — and so far unsuccessful — campaign to stamp out resistance, officials are turning to new forms of...

Vladimir Putin staged an elaborate charade—so why did some Western media outlets play along?

President Joe Biden signed a bill protecting same-sex and interracial marriage in a ceremony at the White House. “We must stop the hate and violence,” said Biden.

Authorities will have the power to ban films deemed to violate China's national security interests.

Belarus’s democracy movement is the awakening of a generation. The world must support it.

Open letter condemning the detention of the human rights activist, who won the 2022 prize, signed by more than 100 laureates including Kazuo Ishiguro and JM Coetzee

Democracy and economic recovery are works in progress.

Seventy-six people have died as their boat capsized while they tried to flee dangerously high floodwaters that have inundated swathes of southern Nigeria.

The landslide victory of pro-democracy politicians in local elections in 2019 was a stunning rebuke of Beijing. Now, fear of retaliation has driven them to quit.

See the Freedom on the Net 2021 score and learn about democracy and freedom in China.

Jim Kolbe, remembered as a "political powerhouse," was a GOP member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 until 2007.

All charges should be dropped and Kara-Murza should be immediately released.

Beijing’s campaign of repression is already shaping what we can say, where we can travel, what products we buy, and even the news we read.

The people won’t accept another military takeover. Neither should we.

In the high-stakes battle between states and technology companies, the rights of internet users have become the main casualties.

How the Biden administration can avert its total collapse.

The violent disruption of a congressional session is unlawful. These are among the most shameful images in our nation’s history.

From Russia to Venezuela, the strongmen who have destroyed democratic institutions won high office at the ballot box.

I'm determined to exercise my right to vote — even from prison.

President Alexander Lukashenko sees the technology sector as an enemy, but it had been the bright spot of the economy.

The Russian opposition leader is enlisting allies on Capitol Hill to strike back at the Kremlin.

Belarus Olympic track sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is alleging that her Olympic team tried to send her home against her will, The Associated Press reported Sunday. In a video circulat…

The committee isn’t acting like a normal congressional committee. Thank goodness.

We mark 25 years since the handover at a time when China’s grip has become a stranglehold.

The world’s democracies must address internal weaknesses even as they work together to counter the global rise of authoritarian rule.