Blog Post Dec 16, 2021 HRF Launches New Tool to Raise Awareness About Brands Linked to Uyghur Forced Labor NEW YORK (December 15, 2021) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is excited to announce the launch of the “Uyghur Forced Labor Checker,” a Google Chrome extension plug-in that informs consumers on whether the apparel brands they are buying from might be relying on Uyghur forced labor.
Blog Post Jan 4, 2021 Challenges & Triumphs of 2020: Women-Led Protest Movements Advance The past year has brought remarkable changes in the way we live our everyday lives.
Blog Post Dec 31, 2020 Challenges & Triumphs of 2020: Challenging Tyranny Through Creativity The past year has brought remarkable changes in the way we live our everyday lives.
Blog Post Dec 31, 2020 Challenges & Triumphs of 2020: Whitewashing Enables Dictators, Fans Fight Back The past year has brought remarkable changes in the way we live our everyday lives.
Blog Post Dec 29, 2020 Challenges & Triumphs of 2020: Technology Emerges As A Tool for Tyrants (and Dissidents) The past year has brought remarkable changes in the way we live our everyday lives. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Blog Post Dec 28, 2020 Challenges & Triumphs of 2020: Authoritarians Weaponize COVID-19 The past year has brought remarkable changes in the way we live our everyday lives.
Publication Feb 6, 2018 Air strikes pound Syria’s last rebel strongholds, gas chokes civilians (Reuters) – Warplanes launched heavy attacks on the two last major rebel-held areas in Syria, killing at least 29 people in the Ghouta suburb near the capital and choking people…
Publication Feb 5, 2018 Azerbaijan Schedules Snap Presidential Election In April (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty) – Long-ruling President Ilham Aliyev has brought the date of Azerbaijan’s presidential election forward by more than six months, to April 11, in a move…
Media Jan 18, 2018 Zimbabwe president promises ‘free and fair’ election in five months Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that elections will be held within “four to five months”, the first since the end of Robert Mugabe’s 37-year rule last year. Mnangagwa, who…
News Jan 9, 2018 Turkmenistan dictator bans black cars because he likes white ones (Times of Malta) – Gurbanguly Berdimukhamedow, the dictator of the oppressive central Asian nation, has decided to ban black cars from the capital city Ashgabat.
News Jan 8, 2018 Egypt to hold presidential election March 26-28 (The Washington Post) – The chairman of Egypt’s election commission said Monday that the presidential election will be held March 26-28, with a runoff in April.
News Jan 5, 2018 Kyrgyz Opposition Politician Jailed For Corruption (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) – A court in Bishkek has sentenced Kyrgyz opposition politician Kanatbek Isaev to 12 years in prison on corruption charges.
News Dec 28, 2017 Liberia Election Could Mark First Peaceful Transfer of Power Since 1944 MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberia has not witnessed a peaceful transition of power since 1944, and the fate of past presidents — since 1971, four of them have either died in office or been sent into exile — is so grim that many Liberians consider the presidential palace to be haunted.
News Dec 19, 2017 Uzbekistan Forces State Workers to Subscribe to State-Run Newspapers (Radio Free Europe) – In Uzbekistan, where media has remained tightly controlled by the government even decades after the breakup of the Soviet Union, public-sector workers say they still don’t have the freedom to choose whether to subscribe to state-run newspapers.
News Nov 29, 2017 Remembering women killed fighting for human rights in 2017 More than half of the women cited in AWID’s 2017 tribute to female activists were murdered for defending their rights. Among the women killed are those who fought to protect their land from the state and multinational companies, or called out injustices or corruption, or stood up for the rights of lesbian, gay and transexual people.
News Nov 20, 2017 Kenya Court Upholds President’s Election Win (The New York Times) – Kenya’s Supreme Court on Monday dismissed two petitions seeking to overturn last month’s presidential vote, paving the way for the inauguration of President Uhuru Kenyatta for a second term.
News Nov 17, 2017 Russia vetoes UN resolution on chemical weapons probe in Syria (CNN) – Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Thursday that would have renewed a mandate for the independent group investigating chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
News Nov 16, 2017 Cambodia’s Top Court Dissolves Main Opposition Party (The New York Times) – Cambodia’s highest court on Thursday dissolved the main opposition party, eliminating the most popular and viable challenger to the country’s authoritarian leader before elections next year.
Press Release Nov 15, 2017 HRF to Zimbabwean Military: Call for Free and Fair Elections After Four Decades of Mugabe NEW YORK (November 15, 2017) — Amid what appears to be a bloodless military coup d’état against Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) urges the Zimbabwe Defense Forces to refrain from violence and to hold free and fair elections that comply with international standards, which would include allowing full participation by opposition groups and international election monitors.
News Oct 31, 2017 Putin Critic Who Fought Pro-Russia Rebels Shot Dead in Ukraine KIEV, Ukraine — A prominent couple who were fierce critics of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and who narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in June was attacked again on Monday.
