Blog Post Jan 16, 2025 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #57 In Burma, the military junta introduced a far-reaching cybersecurity law that criminalizes privacy tools like VPNs and mandates online platforms to store and share user data with state officials.
Blog Post Jan 11, 2025 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #56 Welcome to 2025! As the year begins, authoritarian regimes have swiftly escalated financial repression, intensifying efforts to dismantle civil society, undermine due process, and suppress dissent.
Blog Post Dec 26, 2024 Financial Freedom Report #55 In Russia, the State Duma passed sweeping amendments granting officials the ability to equate тАЬfunding extremist activitiesтАЭ with тАЬfinancing terrorism.тАЭ
Blog Post Dec 19, 2024 Authoritarian incumbents claim most of 2024 elections across Africa More than 15 national elections took place across the African continent (including North Africa) in 2024.
Blog Post Dec 19, 2024 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #54 After 53 years of tyranny, the Syrian regime has been overthrown.
Blog Post Dec 19, 2024 Legitimizing Aggression in Russia’s 2024 Vote Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia entered a period of profound political and economic change.
Blog Post Dec 19, 2024 Elections In Georgia: At the Crossroads between Russia and Europe Countries that once were democratic continued the descent into authoritarianism.
Blog Post Dec 18, 2024 A Stolen Election and the Ongoing Struggle for Democracy In the days leading up to VenezuelaтАЩs July 28 elections, Venezuelans around the world were largely overcome by a sense of renewed, although fragile, faith in liberation.
Blog Post Dec 17, 2024 Elections in MENA: Youth as the Key to Change Sixty-five elections were held around the globe in 2024.
Blog Post Dec 16, 2024 How Elections in Asia Mirror Global Challenges to Democracy Sixty-five elections were held around the globe in 2024. What emerged from these polls was the realization that global democracy is at a critical juncture, especially with the disturbing trend of tyrants manipulating electoral systems to maintain their filthy grip on power.
Blog Post Dec 12, 2024 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #53 This week, governments and financial institutions around the world advanced policies that amplify the divide between state interests and the daily economic realities of citizens.
Blog Post Dec 5, 2024 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #52 In Thailand, the government initiated the second phase of its digital cash handout, targeting four million Thai seniors with 10,000 baht ($290) distributed via their state-controlled тАЬTang RathтАЭ app.
Blog Post Nov 28, 2024 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #51 In Turkey, through years of double-digit inflation, the state has eroded the value of the countryтАЩs largest banknote, the 200-lira bill, whose purchasing power has plummeted from $140 in 2010 to just $5.80 today.
Blog Post Nov 27, 2024 Like, Tweet, & Torment: Maduro Weaponizes Popular Applications to Aid Election Theft Following VenezuelaтАЩs July 28 presidential election in which President Nicol├бs Maduro claimed victory over opposition candidate Edmundo Gonz├бlez despite overwhelming data to the contrary тАФ Gonz├бlez received around 67% of the vote тАФthousands of Venezuelans have protested the results across the country.
Blog Post Nov 8, 2024 Election Watch Tunisia: TunisiaтАЩs Democratic Dismantling Tunisian President Kais Saied won yet another election on Oct. 6, securing an overwhelming 90.7% of the vote, up from 73% since his previous win in 2019. His win, however, is anything but surprising, considering that heтАЩs dismantled nearly all forms of democratic checks to his power.
Blog Post Nov 7, 2024 HRFтАЩs Weekly Financial Freedom Report #48 Indian regulators are contemplating a ban on digital assets like Bitcoin to position their central bank digital currency (CBDC), the Digital Rupee, as the country’s dominant option.
Blog Post Oct 31, 2024 HRFтАЩs Weekly Financial Freedom Report #47 In Nigeria, the state anti-corruption agency dropped money laundering charges against Tigran Gambaryan, a Binance employee detained by the regime since February.
Blog Post Oct 24, 2024 HRFтАЩs Weekly Financial Freedom Report #46 We are excited to share that HRFтАЩs CBDC Tracker is a finalist in this yearтАЩs Anthem Awards, which honor social impact work across various fields.
Blog Post Oct 18, 2024 A History of Sports & Dictators, Part 4: Soviet Sports propaganda When Tsar Peter I тАФ better known as Peter the Great тАФ visited England in 1689, he arranged what has been called the тАЬfirst international boxing matchтАЭ in the garden of the noblemanтАЩs home.
Blog Post Oct 10, 2024 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #44 Last week, HRF hosted the second annual Global Bitcoin Summit, bringing together more than 125 human rights defenders, Bitcoin developers, social entrepreneurs, and UI/UX designers from more than 60 countries at the beautiful Bitcoin Park in Nashville, Tenn.
