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…
Press Release Feb 2, 2018 Venezuelan Political Police Arrests 85-Year-Old Intellectual NEW YORK (February 2, 2018) – The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) strongly condemns the violent raid and arbitrary arrest of Venezuelan historian Enrique Aristeguieta Gramcko and calls on the Venezuelan dictatorship to release him immediately. Mr. Aristeguieta is an 85-year-old Venezuelan attorney
Media Feb 1, 2018 Venezuelans Are So Hungry ‘They Have to Loot to Eat’ (Time) – In the first half of January, there were at least 110 incidents of looting, more than five times than in the same period a year earlier, says the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict…
Media Jan 26, 2018 Maduro’s Court Excludes Opposition From Presidential Vote (News24) – Venezuela’s top court on Thursday delayed the process to re-enrol political parties by six months – a move that will exclude the main opposition coalition from the upcoming…
Press Release Jan 17, 2018 Venezuela: HRF condena ejecución extrajudicial de Oscar Pérez Nueva York (17 de enero de 2018) – Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condena el operativo destinado a ejecutar extrajudicialmente a Oscar Pérez, un exinspector de policía que se rebeló y levantó en armas en contra del régimen de Nicolás Maduro…
Press Release Jan 16, 2018 Venezuelan Government Executes Oscar Perez NEW YORK (January 16, 2018) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns the extrajudicial killing of anti-regime uprising leader Oscar Perez by Venezuelan security forces. In the early hours of…
News Jan 10, 2017 HRF Pres. writes on Venezuelan corruption in New York Post Venezuela is no longer a country with a government, institutions and a civil society. It’s a geographic area terrorized by a criminal enterprise that pretends to govern, with a civil society made up of two sets of people: accomplices and victims.
News Jan 9, 2018 Beijing Builds Its Influence in the American Media During China’s 19th Party Congress, held in Beijing from Oct. 18 to 24, the country’s state-controlled domestic media dutifully gave the dry, jargon-filled proceedings wall-to-wall front-page coverage.
News Jan 8, 2018 U.S. Sanctions Four More Venezuela Officials (The New York Times) – The U.S. government imposed sanctions Friday on four Venezuelan officials, accusing them of engaging in political repression and public corruption as part of President Nicolás Maduro’s government.
News Jan 5, 2018 Venezuelan criminals are using food to recruit children into gangs (Miami Herald) – Venezuelan gangs are no longer recruiting youths in some poor areas by offering them easy money to buy clothes or the latest cell phones. Instead, they are offering food baskets.
Events Jan 3, 2018 PutinCon: First 360 View on Vladimir Putin in NYC on Mar. 16 NEW YORK (January 3, 2018) — On March 16, the Human Rights Foundation will host the world’s first Putin Conference (PutinCon) in the Hell’s Kitchen area of New York City just days before the Russian presidential election.
News Dec 15, 2017 Venezuela’s opposition wins EU’s prestigious human rights prize Venezuela’s opposition has won the EU’s prestigious Sakharov prize for freedom of thought and urged the world to keep a close eye on a forthcoming presidential election, where it aspires to end two decades of authoritarian rule.
News Dec 14, 2017 HRF in the News — En El País sobre la crisis democrática en Bolivia El historiador boliviano Alcides Arguedas relata que, tras hacerse redactar una Constitución a medida en 1868, y mientras sus diputados elogiaban sus virtudes de estadista, el presidente Mariano Melgarejo interrumpió la tertulia palaciega y dijo:
News Dec 14, 2017 HRF in the News — En El País sobre la crisis democrática en Bolivia El historiador boliviano Alcides Arguedas relata que, tras hacerse redactar una Constitución a medida en 1868, y mientras sus diputados elogiaban sus virtudes de estadista, el presidente Mariano Melgarejo interrumpió la tertulia palaciega y dijo: “Sepan todos los honorables señores diputados que la Constitución de 1861, que era muy buena, me la metí en este bolsillo (señalando el bolsillo izquierdo de su pantalón); y la de 1868, que es mejor, según estos doctores, ya me la he metido en este otro (señalando el bolsillo derecho); y que nadie gobierna en Bolivia más que yo”.
Press Release Nov 30, 2017 HRF to OAS: Apply Democracy Clause to Authoritarian Bolivia NEW YORK (November 30, 2017) — In an unprecedented move this Tuesday, Bolivia’s highest court issued a decision eliminating presidential term limits, which will allow President Evo Morales to run for reelection indefinitely.
Press Release Nov 28, 2017 On Giving Tuesday, support freedom and democracy And this year has given us much cause for hope. Saudi Arabia finally granted women the right to drive, after years of tireless work by campaigners like Havel Prize laureate Manal al-Sharif.
