Blog Post Jan 23, 2023 Bolivia’s Jailing Opposition Leaders on Absurd ‘Terrorism’ Charges A Dec. 28 police operation involving over 40 heavily armed officers — most of them in plain clothes and wearing masks — violently arrested Luis Fernando Camacho, one of Bolivia’s most important opposition leaders and governor of the region with the country’s largest city, and swiftly moved him to La Paz in a military helicopter.
Blog Post Jan 17, 2023 HRF’s Recommended Reads for 2023 Today, in the words of Human Rights Foundation (HRF) Board Chairman Garry Kasparov, we are witnessing “the frontline of the total war between freedom and tyranny.”
Blog Post Jan 11, 2023 Trials in Absentia: Lukashenko’s Latest Act of Repression The anti-government protests in Belarus over the last two years may have died down, but the country remains marred by violent repression and the clamping down on dissidents.
Announcement Dec 10, 2022 At HRF, Every Day is International Human Rights Day Today, December 10, marks International Human Rights Day.
Blog Post Dec 2, 2022 Press Freedom: A Right, Yet Democratic Luxury To write freely and openly is a luxury. Around the world, in authoritarian regimes, the luxury of writing — to report on what you see, hear, and think — is virtually nonexistent. The thirst for truth and knowledge, and to write on it, is there. But dictatorships won’t allow such a luxury.
Publication Nov 29, 2022 ‘Chinese Banksy’ hits Miami streets An artist from China launched a five-part collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Tuesday that use the 2022 Winter Olympics as imagery to protest China’s oppression, lack of transparency regarding COVID-19 and the dismantling of democracy in Hong Kong, according to the dedicated site for the collection.
Blog Post Nov 16, 2022 Enforced Disappearances: The Silenced Truths of Burma The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) explores the topic of enforced disappearances in a series of blog posts to draw much-needed attention to this forgotten crime.
Blog Post Sep 15, 2022 The Time for Democracy is Now On this International Day of Democracy, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) calls on the international community to support peaceful dissidents and human rights defenders working to promote and protect human rights in countries under authoritarian rule.
Blog Post Aug 30, 2022 No Girl Left Behind: A Year of HRF’s Commitment to the People of Afghanistan Around this time last year, amid the waning summer and an otherwise hopeful moment of revival in the post-pandemic year, the world witnessed a cataclysmic event: the United States’ formal military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Blog Post Aug 30, 2022 Enforced Disappearances: A Crime Without a Trace Today, August 30th is the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances.
Press Release Aug 24, 2022 HRF to Saudi Arabia: Let American Mother & Daughter Return Home The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) calls on Saudi Arabia to repeal its oppressive male guardianship laws and to allow women to exercise basic civil rights without the permission of their male guardians.
Blog Post Jul 30, 2022 Authoritarianism Lies at the Heart of Human Trafficking On this World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, there are over 24.9 million people subject to human trafficking, or modern slavery.
Press Release Jul 27, 2022 Carine Kanimba & John Scott-Railton to Testify Before U.S. Congress Today, Oslo Freedom Forum community members Carine Kanimba, daughter of jailed Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina, and John Scott-Railton, a renowned cybersecurity expert and Senior Researcher at The Citizen Lab, will be testifying in an public hearing before the U.S. House Intelligence Committee.
Blog Post Jul 11, 2022 One Year Anniversary of the 2021 Protests: Repression and Hope in Cuba One year ago today, the Cuban people took to the streets in a brave and rare act of defiance of the dictatorship that has ruled the island with an iron fist for over six decades.
Blog Post Jun 24, 2022 Key Takeaways from HRF at the 2022 RightsCon The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) hosted two sessions at the 2022 RightsCon, which took place online from June 6-10.
Publication Jun 7, 2022 Human rights advocates tell Congress bitcoin is essential in countries with ‘collapsing’ currencies A week after prominent technologists publicly slammed crypto for being too risky and unproven in a letter to Congress, human rights advocates from around the world have sent a rebuttal to U.S. lawmakers defending digital assets for the access they provide to people in countries where “local currencies are collapsing, broken, or cut off from the outside world.”
Press Release Jun 1, 2022 Check Out HRF at the 2022 RightsCon Online! The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is excited to announce its participation once again at the 2022 RightsCon Online, which will be held from June 6-10!
Press Release May 13, 2022 Hong Kong: HRF Condemns Arbitrary Arrest of Denise Ho and Colleagues NEW YORK (May 13, 2022) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) strongly condemns the Hong Kong government’s arrest of pro-democracy activist, Cantopop star, and former Oslo Freedom Forum speaker, Denise Ho.
Blog Post Mar 12, 2022 HRF Welcomes Release of Saudi Writer and Activist Raif Badawi NEW YORK (March 11, 2022) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) welcomes the release of Raif Badawi, a Saudi writer and creator of the website Free Saudi Liberals.
Blog Post May 10, 2022 Refugees, Human Trafficking, and Authoritarianism Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, shook the world as the first invasion of a sovereign European nation since World War II.
