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Dear John,

Freedom House President Michael Abramowitz just returned from a trip to the Indo-Pacific, a region home to some of world’s worst dictatorships and several of its best and brightest democracies. 

In the dispatch below, Abramowitz talks about meeting civil society figures and former government officials in the region who are working to support the civil society groups, movements, and brave individuals who are on the front lines of the struggle for democracy. 
 

COMING SEPT. 8: Beijing’s Global Media Influence Report Launch

The Chinese government is accelerating its efforts to influence media in democracies worldwide. Our newest report breaks down how and why the CCP is engaged in this effort, the countries they are targeting, and how those countries are pushing back.
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Join Sarah Cook, Freedom House's Research Director for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and other experts as they discuss the findings of Freedom House’s newest report – Beijing’s Global Media Influence: Authoritarian Expansion and the Power of Democratic Resilience.

Afghanistan: Human Rights Defenders Continue to Face Immense Danger

Marking the one-year anniversary of the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Freedom House President Michael Abramowitz issued a statement urging governments and international organizations to do more to assist embattled human rights defenders struggling under Taliban rule.

Invasion of Ukraine

Democratic societies everywhere must support the Ukrainian people in their struggle for peace and freedom.
Read more about the human impact
of the war in Ukraine, updated every week. 
 

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