Blog Post Oct 18, 2025 Today CCP opened its 19th Party Congress. We call for the release of Gao Zhisheng on this occasion. October 18th marks the beginning of China’s dictatorial Communist Party’s 19th Party Congress. On this occasion, HRF calls for the release of Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
Press Release Oct 16, 2017 China: HRF Publishes Report by Missing Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng NEW YORK (October 16, 2017) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has published Gao Zhisheng’s “2016 Human Rights Report for China.” Gao is a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer who was imprisoned in his home in Shaanxi Province in 2014.
Press Release Oct 14, 2017 HRF Awarded D&AD Wood Pencil Prize NEW YORK (October 14, 2017) — The Human Rights Foundation’s Flash Drives for Freedom program has been recognized by D&AD and Advertising Week as a big idea that is making a difference in the world by using creativity for good.
News Oct 13, 2017 World must wake up to crackdown in Cambodia, says exiled opposition politician A senior Cambodian opposition figure has called for the world to wake up to a calculated campaign by long-time prime minister Hun Sen to batter the remnants of its democracy ahead of elections next year.
News Oct 11, 2017 Are North Korea and Cuba Democracies? Watch this excellent defense of common sense by Cuba expert John Suarez who debated a British apologist of the Castro dictatorship, Mr. Robert Miller, regarding the most recent diplomatic crisis between the U.S. and Cuban governments caused by a sonic attack that injured over 15 American diplomats in Havana. In the context of the debate and as he found himself out of arguments in defense of the Castro regime, Mr. Miller was cornered into stating on air that both the Cuban and North Korean totalitarian regimes were, in fact, democracies.
Press Release Oct 10, 2017 Vietnam: HRF Submits Urgent Appeal to UN on Behalf of Blogger Me Nam NEW YORK (October 10, 2017) — On October 6, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations special rapporteur on torture on behalf of blogger and activist Ngọc Như Quỳnh Nguyễn, also known as Me Nam (“Mother Mushroom”).
Press Release Oct 3, 2017 HRF Urges Burma to End Violence Against Rohingya in Rakhine State NEW YORK (October 3, 2017) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) urges the Burmese government to end the violence in Rakhine State and address the gross violations of the Rohingya population’s human rights.
News Sep 26, 2017 A heart-breaking testimony of torture in North Korea Watch the heart-breaking testimony by Otto Warmbier’s parents of the torture his son endured under the world’s most brutal dictatorship.
Press Release Aug 16, 2017 HRF Urges Release of Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Wang Quanzhang The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) urges the Chinese government to release human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang unconditionally after more than two years of incommunicado detention
Press Release Aug 15, 2017 Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng Goes Missing The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) requests that the Chinese government provide proof of life of human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng and release information on his current location.
Publication Jun 28, 2017 Meet the Youthful Face of Resistance to Thailand’s Junta Every year, on the first day of school, thousands of first-year students file onto a field on the campus of Chulalongkorn, Thailand’s oldest and among its most prestigious universities, in the heart of the sweltering capital Bangkok.
Press Release Mar 28, 2017 HRF to launch Free Speech Unlimited at RightsCon Brussels The panel, “Free Speech Unlimited,” features U.N. Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye; Bahraini free speech activist Maryam Al-Khawaja; Eritrean journalist Meron Estefanos; and two members of HRF’s legal team, Joy Park and Celine Assaf Boustani.
News Mar 15, 2017 Reason TV deems HRF the most disruptive at SXSW Reason TV published a video and article featuring HRF’s panel, “The Real Information Revolution,” at this year’s SXSW, an annual interactive festival held in Austin, TX.
Press Release Feb 18, 2017 HRF to Testify Before U.S. Senate Kasparov will offer his expert testimony at 2:45 p.m. It will be broadcast live on the U.S. Senate website.
Events Jan 19, 2017 HRF Tech Panel at SXSW Festival in March 2016 HRF’s session “How to Free North Korea with Technology” will feature North Korean author Yeonmi Park, Yodok concentration camp survivor Jung Kwang-il, Silicon Valley executive Peter Hirshberg, and HRF president Thor Halvorssen.
Press Release Dec 12, 2016 Canada, U.S., Estonia: HRF Supports Legislation to Reject Dictatorship Enablers The Magnitsky Law, if adopted, will allow Canada to sanction foreign officials who commit gross human rights abuses abroad by restricting their entry into the country and freezing their assets.
Press Release Oct 29, 2016 HRF’s Work to Be Featured in London at Mozilla and WIRED Conferences Beginning today, Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is participating in two of Europe’s major technology and media events: MozFest 2016 and WIRED2016.
Press Release Oct 24, 2016 HRF Urges Democratic Countries not to Elect Dictatorships to UN Human Rights Council Governments seeking election to the U.N.’s top human rights body this year include China, Cuba, Egypt, Iraq, Malaysia, Russia, Rwanda, and Saudi Arabia.
Press Release Oct 10, 2016 Join HRF and Flash Drives For Freedom at PubCon Event organizers have donated space to HRF in the heart of their main expo hall to help us recruit new media experts to the human rights movement.
Press Release Oct 5, 2016 HRF to UN: Do Not Elect Dictatorships to the Human Rights Council “This year, five notorious dictatorships are running for reelection at the world’s top human rights body. By gaining these highly coveted seats, which they have consistently used to exercise a heckler’s veto, they seek to shield themselves from any significant exposure of their horrendous human rights records,” said HRF Chief Legal Officer Javier El-Hage.“