Authoritarian Reach

Our latest report, Beijing’s Global Media Influence: Authoritarian Expansion and the Power of Democratic Resilience, offers the most comprehensive assessment to date of Beijing’s global media influence and the ways in which democracies are responding.

More on the research, country selection, and scoring for Freedom House’s BGMI report.

 Governments, media outlets, civil society, and technology firms all have an essential role to play in protecting freedom of expression and access to information in the face of increasingly aggressive Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence efforts, while ensuring adherence to democratic norms and international human rights standards. Read more on Freedom House's global policy recommendations from the Beijing's Global Media Influence report.

Dozens of governments around the world systemically employ violence against exiles and diasporas, reaching beyond national borders to silence dissent. Read more about transnational repression in our newest report, Defending Democracy in Exile: Policy Responses to Transnational Repression. 

By studying transnational repression at a global scale, Freedom House aims to explain the repercussions of these campaigns, and to help policymakers and civil society think about how they can respond to protect exiles and diasporas. Read all of our reports on transnational repression. 

The recommendations listed below are intended to constrain the ability of states to commit acts of transnational repression and to increase accountability for perpetrators of transnational repression.