Freedom Report FIW 2026 finds 54 nations reported deterioration across political rights and civil liberties in 2025. It also states 35 nations had progress. Just 21% worldwide is in Free-rated countries, from 46%. Over two decades it was 46 percent. The report signals rising threats and reprisals targeting political speech created chill on nonviolent expression.
In the United States, an escalation in both legislative dysfunction and executive dominance, growing pressure on people’s ability to engage in free expression, and efforts by the new administration to undermine anticorruption safeguards all contributed to a 3-point decline, bringing the country’s score to 81 out of 100.
freedomhouse.orgMilitary coups, violence against peaceful protesters, and efforts to weaken constitutional safeguards in 2025 drove the 20th consecutive year of decline in global freedom, according to a new report…
humanrightsdefenders.blogunilateral authority. Separately, a multiyear rise in threats and reprisals for political speech as well as government efforts to punish nonviolent expression by noncitizens produced a chilling effect on personal expression more broadly. The new presidential administration also disregarded conflicts of interest and weakened both anticorruption safeguards
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