Press Release Aug 31, 2018 HRF pide a la CIDH promover aplicación de la cláusula democrática a Bolivia El 17 de agosto pasado, Human Rights Foundation (HRF) entregó una carta al representante de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) José Eguiguren, y llamó al también relator para Bolivia del organismo a denunciar la alteración del orden democrático en ese país a cargo del gobierno autoritario del presidente Morales.
Press Release Aug 13, 2018 HRF Calls on Ecuador to Reform Draconian Communications Law NEW YORK (August 13, 2018) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has joined efforts to restore press freedom to Ecuador by submitting two legal briefs to Ecuador’s legislative body exposing…
Press Release Aug 9, 2018 Ecuador: HRF envía informes a Relator Especial y Asamblea Nacional NUEVA YORK (9 de agosto de 2018) — La semana pasada, Human Rights Foundation (HRF) envió un informe al Relator Especial para la Libertad de Expresión de la Comisión Interamericana…
Report Jul 27, 2018 Authoritarianism and Trafficking in Persons Though trafficking is present in every country, including democracies, our analysis shows that there is a connection between trafficking and authoritarianism. A possible explanation for this is that…
Press Release Jul 23, 2018 Six Years After Oswaldo Payá’s Death, His Family is Still Waiting for Justice Yesterday marked the sixth anniversary of the death of Cuban pro-democracy dissident Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas. Despite the Castro regime’s perpetual smear campaign against him, Payá is internationally recognized as the…
Press Release Jul 11, 2018 Press Release — Nicaragua: HRF Condemns Killings by Ortega’s Regime NEW YORK (July 11, 2018) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) joins the United Nations in condemning the more than 300 state-sponsored killings in Nicaragua. On April 18, protests broke…
Press Release Jul 7, 2018 Comunicado — Nicaragua: HRF condena asesinatos a cargo del régimen de Ortega NUEVA YORK (7 de julio de 2018) — Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condena las más de doscientas muertes a manos de agentes del Estado y miembros de grupos irregulares afines…
Press Release Jun 29, 2018 HRF a Cuba: Dictadura debe liberar al científico ambientalista Ariel Ruiz NUEVA YORK (2 de julio de 2018) — Human Rights Foundation (HRF) pide la inmediata liberación de Ariel Ruiz Urquiola, científico ambientalista y prisionero de conciencia del régimen del dictador…
Press Release Jun 8, 2018 Evo Morales Loses Bid to Influence Inter-American Court NEW YORK (June 8, 2018) — This week, the Organization of American States (OAS) refrained from electing Nardi Suxo Iturry, a Bolivian former minister and political ally of Evo Morales,…
Media May 18, 2018 Venezuela election: Maduro ‘ready for battle’ as voters vow to flee if he wins His country is plagued by hyperinflation, chronic shortages of food and medicine, soaring murder rates and one of the most severe migration crises in recent Latin American history.
Media May 14, 2018 Violence at protests in Nicaragua leaves 2 more dead (The Washington Post) – Protesters opposed to President Daniel Ortega’s government clashed with riot police and Sandinista Youth groups in cities across Nicaragua Saturday, with demonstrators burning tires and setting…
Media Apr 23, 2018 Protesters demand resignation of Nicaraguan president after unrest (Reuters) – Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in the capital of Nicaragua on Monday to demand the resignation of the country’s president after a violent crackdown by police…
Press Release Apr 19, 2018 Castro Handpicks Successor in Sham Vote NEW YORK (April 19, 2018) — Today, Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power elected Miguel Díaz-Canel, Raúl Castro’s handpicked successor, as the new president of Cuba. The long-predicted appointment of…
Press Release Apr 2, 2018 HRF a la ONU: Danny Glover debe ser despojado de título de embajador de UNICEF
Press Release Mar 29, 2018 HRF to UN: Fire Danny Glover From UNICEF Ambassadorship NEW YORK (March 29, 2018) —The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Danny Glover’s official visit to whitewash the crimes of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, and calls…
Publication Mar 23, 2018 Venezuela’s Maduro Uses Hunger as an Election Weapon (The Wall Street Journal) – Food is an enormously powerful weapon in a country where babies die of malnutrition, store shelves are often bare and three-quarters of the population
Publication Mar 1, 2018 Can Venezuela Be Saved? There’s a page in a book in a stack on the floor at the house of Leopoldo López that I think about sometimes. It’s a page that López revisits often;…
Publication Feb 8, 2018 ICC to open preliminary probes in Philippines, Venezuela Feb 8, 2018 (The Washington Post) – The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced Thursday that she is opening preliminary probes into alleged crimes by police and security forces in the Philippines…
Media Feb 5, 2018 Ecuador’s Correa barred from presidency in national referendum (Miami Herald) – In 2015, with the backing of a compliant congress, [Correa] successfully scrapped presidential term limits. Although the changes wouldn’t take effect until 2021, many worried Correa was…
