Freedom in the World FIW 2026 reports 54 nations experienced deterioration across political rights and civil liberties in 2025. It also states 35 nations had progress. 21% worldwide lives in countries rated Free, lower than 46%. Two decades back it was 46 percent. Freedom in the World warns rising threats and reprisals linked to political speech created repression effect 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.orgunilateral 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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