Blog Post Jan 8, 2025 Corruption Trails CBDC Projects in China, Nigeria, and Lebanon Central bankers have a corruption problem. Recently, Yao Qian, the former head of the PeopleтАЩs Bank of ChinaтАЩs research into central bank digital currency (CBDC), was removed from office and expelled from the Chinese Communist Party for engaging in corruption.
Blog Post Dec 8, 2020 Data Collection & Censorship in the Coronavirus Outbreak At the 2020 Oslo Freedom Forum, the Human Rights Foundation hosted a panel discussion about data collection and censorship as it relates to governmental responses to the coronavirus.
Press Release Nov 4, 2024 HRF calls on the Chinese government to immediately release artist Gao Zhen The Human Rights Foundation (HRF), along with our Chinese partners dedicated to artistic freedom, expresses deep concern over the arrest and arbitrary detention of Gao Zhen, a prominent contemporary Chinese artist and a member of the well-known Gao Brothers, a collaborative artist duo.
Blog Post Jul 22, 2024 Undermined: ChinaтАЩs Growing Presence in Tibetan Mining For decades, China has exploited ethnic minorities in the name of economic growth. To become a global leader in mass-producing and exporting inexpensive goods, it relies on a steady supply of cheap labor. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has found this labor supply in its occupied territories, such as the Uyghur Region.1
Publication Jul 10, 2024 26 million tons of clothing end up in ChinaтАЩs landfills each year, propelled by fast fashion At a factory in Zhejiang province on ChinaтАЩs eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a workroom floor.
Blog Post Apr 22, 2024 Beyond Borders: ChinaтАЩs Attempts to Censor Global Academia The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is dedicated to perfecting its global narrative, employing a combination of coercion and co-optation tactics to shape public discourse both within China and abroad.
Blog Post Mar 27, 2024 Beyond Borders: ChinaтАЩs Grip on Global Media Controlling the public narrative is the Chinese Communist PartyтАЩs (CCP) modus operandi. It relies on narrative and revisionist storytelling to coerce its subjects into ideological adherence.
Announcement Mar 1, 2024 HRF Workshop Recap: Uyghur Youth Mobilization Last month, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) hosted the online workshop тАЬUyghur Youth MobilizationтАЭ to provide the next generation of activists with the skills necessary to strengthen their advocacy.
Blog Post Jan 15, 2024 Beyond Borders: ChinaтАЩs Transnational Repression of Uyghurs In March, Turkish police raided a bookstore in Istanbul, accusing it of selling copies of Uyghur books banned by the Chinese regime without proper copyright.
Blog Post Nov 17, 2023 Worldconned: How China Co-Opted Sci-FiтАЩs Crown Jewel Amidst the Uyghur Genocide Last month, Chengdu, China hosted the 81st World Science Fiction Convention. Known as Worldcon, this annual convention is the site of the prestigious Hugo AwardsтАФsci-fiтАЩs equivalent to the Oscars.
Press Release Oct 13, 2023 The Governments of South Korea and the US Must Demand Xi Jinping to Stop Forcibly Repatriating North Korean Defectors On the evening of Oct. 9, Chinese officials swiftly repatriated North Korean defectors back to North Korea through Hunchun, Tumen, Changbai, Nanping, and Dandong.
Press Release Oct 9, 2023 HRF to UN: Do Not Elect Dictatorships to Human Rights Council On Oct. 10, 193 member states of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) face the crucial task of filling 15 of the 47 seats of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
News Sep 21, 2023 21st-Century Gulag тАУ HRF x The Signal As the United Nations General Assembly convened its annual meeting in New York City this week, a small event on the sidelines provoked anger from ChinaтАЩs UN mission.
Blog Post Jul 13, 2023 All Fabricated: SheinтАЩs Influencer Trip to a Guangzhou Factory In June, the global fast-fashion retailer Shein treated a group of social media influencers to an all-expenses paid trip to Guangzhou, a city in southeast China. Glamorous at the onset, Shein took these тАЬbrand ambassadorsтАЭ тАФ individuals paid to endorse the companyтАЩs products тАФ on tours of the companyтАЩs тАЬaboveboardтАЭ factories. Soon after, the individuals shared raving reviews of the working conditions, suggesting no signs of maltreatment or forced labor.
Blog Post Apr 13, 2023 WhatтАЩs Happening In ChinaтАЩs Concentration Camps? Q&A with Uyghur Camp Survivors As Muslims globally celebrate the holy month of Ramadan with their families, the Uyghur people тАФ many of whom practice Islam тАФ are suffering genocide at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party in ChinaтАЩs Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (тАЬUyghur RegionтАЭ).
Announcement Feb 8, 2023 Meet HRF Freedom Fellow Pema Doma Human Rights Foundation Freedom Fellow Pema Doma is a Tibetan human rights and climate campaigner who was a key organizer in #NoBeijing2022, a global campaign against ChinaтАЩs hosting of the Winter Olympic Games.
Op-Ed Dec 8, 2022 Hollywood Should Stand with Protesters against ChinaтАЩs Oppression For too long, AmericaтАЩs film industry has complied with the Chinese governmentтАЩs censorship demands. Now is the time to fight back.
Announcement Apr 27, 2022 HRF Wins Two Webby Awards The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce that the organizationтАЩs Uyghur Forced Labor Checker has won The Webby PeopleтАЩs Voice Award in the Public Service & Activism: Advertising, Media & PR category and The Webby Award in the Web Services & Applications: Websites and Mobile Sites category in the 26th annual Webby Awards.
Publication Apr 15, 2022 Who Burned Down the Sculpture of Xi Jinping at a California Park? Federal prosecutors say Weiming ChenтАЩs тАШCCP VirusтАЩ was destroyed by men working for China.
