North Korea: Freedom in the World 2024 Country Report
North Korea is a one-party state led by a dynastic totalitarian dictatorship that regularly engages in grave human rights abuses. Surveillance is pervasive, arbitrary arrests and detention are common, and punishments for political offenses are severe.
United States: Freedom in the World 2024 Country Report
Investigations into the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election continued throughout the year, leading to hundreds of new convictions linked to the January 2021 attack on the Capitol, in which supporters of then president Donald Trump violently disrupted congressional certification of Joseph Biden’s victory.
Cuba: Freedom in the World 2024 Country Report | Freedom House
The constitution identifies the PCC as the “superior driving force of society and the state.” All other political parties are illegal. Political dissent is a punishable offense, and dissidents are systematically harassed, detained, physically assaulted, and imprisoned for minor infractions.
Russia: Freedom in the World 2024 Country Report | Freedom House
Power in Russia’s authoritarian political system is concentrated in the hands of President Vladimir Putin. With subservient courts and security forces, a controlled media environment, and a legislature consisting of a ruling party and pliable opposition factions, the Kremlin manipulates elections and suppresses genuine opposition.
Venezuela: Freedom in the World 2024 Country Report | Freedom …
Venezuela’s democratic institutions have been deteriorating since 1999, but conditions have grown sharply worse in recent years due to harsher government crackdowns on the opposition and the ruling party’s use of thoroughly flawed elections to seize full control of state institutions.
Philippines: Freedom in the World 2024 Country Report | Freedom …
The president is both head of state and head of government and is directly elected to a single six-year term. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. won the May 2022 presidential election with 58 percent of the vote, defeating outgoing vice president Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo, a progressive candidate and democracy activist.
Honduras: Freedom in the World 2024 Country Report | Freedom …
In February, legislators selected 15 Supreme Court justices who will serve until 2030. A nominating body had offered a merit-based list of candidates to the National Congress in January, but legislators selected justices from that list on a partisan basis.
Canada: Freedom in the World 2024 Country Report | Freedom …
The Canadian Parliament consists of an elected 338-member House of Commons and an appointed 105-member Senate. Lower-house elections are held every four years on fixed dates; though early elections may be called by the governor general if the government loses a no-confidence vote, or on the advice of the prime minister.
Democracy in the United States: What We’ll Be Watching in 2025
Oct 29, 2024 · With the United States facing closely contested general elections, Freedom House has been highlighting potential democratic risks surrounding the process—from harassment of poll workers, to postelection efforts to impede certification of the vote, to political violence—and promoting important ways to mitigate those risks.. But as an organization that has been assessing political rights and ...
Ethiopia: Freedom in the World 2024 Country Report | Freedom …
The transition beginning in 2018 initially brought progressive political reforms, but crackdowns in 2020—first after the assassination of Oromo musician Hachalu Hundessa and then after the beginning of the conflict in Tigray later that year—harmed political pluralism.