Press Release Jan 4, 2022 HRF & Lantos to Democracies: Leave Your Olympic Box Seats Empty in Protest With the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics one month away, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) and the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice (Lantos Foundation) call on democratic governments to commit to a diplomatic boycott of the Games, and refuse to send official representation.
Publication Dec 7, 2021 How China Uses Economic Coercion to Silence Critics and Achieve its Political Aims Globally Chair MERKLEY. Good morning. Today’s hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China entitled ‘‘How China Uses Economic Coercion to Silence Critics and Achieve Its Political Aims Globally’’ will come to order.
Publication Sep 17, 2021 Joint letter: Urging Xi Jinping to immediately release Zhang Zhan, a Chinese journalist who covered the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic On September 17th, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of 44 human rights NGOs urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to exonerate and release Covid-19 reporter Zhang Zhan, who has been on hunger strike since May 2020, for which she was forced-fed.
Press Release Aug 6, 2021 New HRF Report: The CCP’s 100 Years of Suppression NEW YORK (August 6, 2021) — Last month, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) marked its 100-year anniversary with fireworks and extravagant displays to distract the world from its appalling human rights abuses.
Blog Post Aug 4, 2021 Unraveling China’s Attempts to Hinder Academic Freedom: Confucius Institutes As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enters its 100th year, it continues to actively spearhead extensive propaganda, censorship, and repression campaigns within and outside of China’s borders.
Report Aug 1, 2021 100 Years of Suppression 2021 marks the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the sole ruling party of China. In the past several decades, the Chinese government has perpetrated some of the worst human rights abuses the world has ever witnessed.
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.
Op-Ed Jul 1, 2021 Behind China’s grand façade lies deep insecurity July 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) founding. Leading up to this centenary, the CCP hosted lavish celebrations, shimmering firework displays, futuristic light shows and all-star performances. Sites such as the Museum of the Communist Party of China and Shuangqing Villa, where the late Mao Zedong once lived (locations and tour routes aptly referred to it as “red tourism”), have seen a boost in visitors. Flags and banners adorning patriotic messages lined the streets as the country prepared for the highly-anticipated grand ceremony taking place today.
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.
Op-Ed Apr 18, 2021 China’s intimidation and endless pursuit of ideological compliance From H&M to Nike, from global airlines to hotel chains, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long leveraged its burgeoning position in the global economy to pressure foreign companies into becoming messengers of its authoritarian ideology.
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.
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.
Events Sep 4, 2020 HRF and Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Launch Event Series The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is co-hosting The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism: China, AI, & Human Rights
Media Jun 13, 2020 Op-Ed: Corporate America stands against injustices — except those ‘Made in China’ This op-ed was published by The Hill on June 13, 2020. By Jenny Wang, HRF’s Strategic Advisor The killing of George Floyd has ignited a civil society deeply disturbed by…
Press Release Jun 9, 2020 Report: Corporate Intimidation & Censorship in China NEW YORK (June 9, 2020) — On the one-year anniversary of Hong Kong’s million-person march defending the city’s freedom, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has released a report that reveals…
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…
Press Release Apr 24, 2020 Hong Kong’s government must end arbitrary arrests NEW YORK – Rule of law in Hong Kong is under attack, and citizens are being arbitrarily arrested for peacefully protesting, or even just passing by protest sites.