Expanding Freedom and Democracy

Despite increasingly repressive rule under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), dissent in China occurs regularly and is geographically widespread, according to new analysis by Freedom House. The first edition of the China Dissent Monitor recorded 668 instances of dissent in China from June to September 2022, as people spoke out against stalled housing projects, labor rights violations, fraud, COVID-19 policies, and state violence, among other grievances. 

Nigeria will host one of its most high-stakes elections in decades on February 25, 2023. Freedom House's Election Watch team previews the unique threats facing this election, the biggest among them the violent activities of several non-state armed groups who have publicly expressed a wish to scupper the country’s vulnerable democracy.

Global internet freedom declined for the 12th consecutive year in 2022, and governments are on a campaign to divide the open internet into a patchwork of repressive enclaves. Explore Freedom on the Net 2022: Countering an Authoritarian Overhaul of the Internet.