Report Aug 1, 2021 HRF Report: CCP 100 Years of Suppression 2021 marks the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the sole ruling party of China.
Press Release Apr 19, 2021 Join HRF’s Event at Harvard: “Genocide in the 21st Century: The Uyghur Crisis” NEW YORK (April 17, 2021) – The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is co-hosting Genocide in the 21st Century: The Uyghur Crisis, on Thursday, April 22, and Tuesday, April 27.
Press Release Apr 15, 2021 Chinese Communist Party: Stop Coercing Family of Uyghur Journalist Gulchehra Hoja NEW YORK (April 15, 2021) – The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) strongly condemns the Chinese government’s forced testimony of the family members of Uyghur-American journalist
Op-Ed Mar 18, 2021 The last blow to Hong Kong’s faltering democracy Two Fridays ago, the annual National People’s Congress convened in Beijing to rubber-stamp the Chinese Communist Party’s policies. Unfortunately for Hong Kong, restructuring the city’s electoral process topped the agenda.
Press Release Feb 3, 2021 HRF to Biden Administration: Focus on Worst Human Rights Offenders NEW YORK (February 3, 2021) – Following the inauguration of President Joseph Biden in the United States on January 20, 2021
Blog Post Jan 29, 2021 What’s Happening in Xinjiang? Q&A With Uyghur Activist Jewher Ilham China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, also known as the Uyghur Region or East Turkestan, is home to millions of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities.
Report Jun 1, 2020 Corporate Intimidation and Censorship in China Since China’s rise as a global trade giant, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has leveraged its position in the global economy to intimidate foreign companies into becoming indirect messengers of its political ideology. Since the 1990s, the Chinese government has exerted pressure…
Announcement Apr 1, 2019 HRF to Exhibit Dissident Art at 2019 Oslo Freedom Forum The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is excited to announce that internationally acclaimed Chinese dissident artists, the Gao Brothers, will be joining the 2019 Oslo Freedom Forum as part of our Art in Protest program.
Press Release Aug 23, 2018 China Denies Visa to Reporter and OFF Speaker Megha Rajagopalan NEW YORK (August 23, 2018) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns the Chinese government’s decision to deny a journalist visa to BuzzFeed reporter and Oslo Freedom Forum speaker Megha Rajagopalan. Rajagopalan, who…
Media Aug 1, 2018 Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest, The…
Press Release Jul 10, 2018 Liu Xia, Detained Widow of Nobel Peace Laureate, Leaves China BEIJING — The ailing widow of Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who died of cancer last year under police guard, left China for Europe…
Blog Post Jul 2, 2018 The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown In December 2015, thousands of tech entrepreneurs and analysts, along with a few international heads of state, gathered in Wuzhen, in southern China, for the country’s second World Internet Conference. At…
Publication Jun 21, 2018 John Oliver, Having Mocked Chinese Censorship, Is Censored in China HONG KONG — In a 20-minute segment about China that aired Sunday on the satirical news show “Last Week Tonight,” the host John Oliver brought up President Xi Jinping’s resemblance…
Media Jun 14, 2018 In China’s Far West, Companies Cash in on Surveillance Program In the far western region of Xinjiang, China has created one of the world’s most sophisticated and intrusive state surveillance systems to target the predominantly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority. Part…
Publication May 2, 2018 ‘Easier to die than live’: Liu Xia, widow of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo By Liao Yiwu, Chinese writer in exile On April 30, 2018, at 4:00 p.m. in Germany, I spoke to Liu Xia at her home in Beijing. She said: “Now, I’ve…
Publication Apr 25, 2018 #MeToo activists in China are turning to the blockchain to dodge censorship Chinese internet users have seen posts referring to the country’s #MeToo movement disappear from WeChat, Weibo, and other popular social networks in recent weeks. In particular, posts about an alleged…
Publication Apr 4, 2018 China human rights: Wife marches for ‘vanished’ husband The wife of a detained Chinese lawyer has begun a march of more than 100km (62 miles) to try to find answers about his fate. Li Wenzu is walking from…
Publication Mar 29, 2018 The Disappeared – China’s Global Kidnapping Campaign Before he disappeared from his luxury apartment at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong on Jan. 27, 2017, Xiao Jianhua, a Chinese-Canadian billionaire, favored female bodyguards. Why, exactly, was…
