Press Release Jan 10, 2025 HRF condemns Nicol├бs MaduroтАЩs coup in Venezuela; asks Trump admin to rescind OFAC licenses held by Chevron and others The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) strongly condemns the sham inauguration of dictator Nicol├бs Maduro as VenezuelaтАЩs reelected president following his regimeтАЩs blatant electoral fraud on July 28, 2024, and calls on the U.S. government to rescind Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) licenses granted to companies doing business with the Venezuelan regime.
Blog Post Dec 18, 2024 A Stolen Election and the Ongoing Struggle for Democracy In the days leading up to VenezuelaтАЩs July 28 elections, Venezuelans around the world were largely overcome by a sense of renewed, although fragile, faith in liberation.
Press Release Nov 5, 2024 HRF protests Gustavo Dudamel, MaduroтАЩs unofficial ambassador On Oct. 25-27 and Nov. 1-3, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) held peaceful protests in front of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Calif., where Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel was leading a concert series.
Press Release Sep 5, 2024 HRF interviews Venezuelan opposition leader Mar├нa Corina Machado on financial repression and freedom On Thursday, Bitcoin Magazine published a video of the Human Rights FoundationтАЩs (HRF) chief strategy officer, Alex Gladstein, interviewing Mar├нa Corina Machado, leader of VenezuelaтАЩs democratic opposition, about the destruction the Chavismo have caused to VenezuelaтАЩs monetary system and how many Venezuelans use Bitcoin to escape or find their financial freedom.
Blog Post Aug 19, 2024 The Role of Freedom Tech in Venezuela Venezuela grapples with fraudulent presidential elections, economic and financial collapse, widespread repression, and severe human rights abuses under dictator Nicol├бs Maduro, its brave activists continue searching for uncensorable solutions to combat systemic repression.
Press Release Jul 31, 2024 Ongoing Electoral Fraud in Venezuela The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) reiterates its strong condemnation of dictator Nicol├бs MaduroтАЩs fraudulent proclamation as VenezuelaтАЩs reelected president.
Press Release Jul 29, 2024 HRF condena el resultado fraudulento de las elecciones en Venezuela y exige la salida de Nicol├бs Maduro Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condena categ├│ricamente el recientemente anunciado y claramente fraudulento resultado de la elecci├│n por parte del r├йgimen autoritario venezolano, otorgando al dictador Nicol├бs Maduro una victoria con el 51.20% del voto nacional.
Press Release Jul 29, 2024 HRF Condemns Fraudulent Election Results in Venezuela The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) strongly condemns the Venezuelan authoritarian regimeтАЩs recently announced and patently fraudulent election results, giving dictator Nicol├бs Maduro a victory with 51.20% of the national vote.
Blog Post Mar 11, 2024 Venezuela expelled the UN: Why it matters By the end of this year, three of Latin AmericaтАЩs worst authoritarian regimes will undergo mandatory reviews of their countryтАЩs human rights record.
Blog Post Nov 7, 2022 The Cost of Defending the Environment in Latin America On July 5, 2022, Venezuelan indigenous leader and environmentalist Virgilio Trujillo Arana was murdered in broad daylight.
Press Release Oct 12, 2022 HRF Applauds Rejection of VenezuelaтАЩs Regime from UN Human Rights Council Yesterday, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) rejected VenezuelaтАЩs government in its election to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
Press Release Apr 4, 2022 U.S. Government Should Maintain Targeted Sanctions Against Venezuelan Dictator Nicol├бs Maduro and His Cronies NEW YORK (April 22, 2022) тАУ The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) urges the democratic world and the United States, in particular, to maintain the pressure of targeted sanctions against the dictatorship of Nicol├бs Maduro in Venezuela as he is being investigated for crimes against humanity and his dictatorship continues to usurp the state to use it as a transnational criminal enterprise.
Press Release Mar 9, 2022 HRF Urges the United States to Stand for Democracy and Not Betray the People of Venezuela NEW YORK (March 9, 2022) тАФ The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) expresses grave concern regarding the recent meeting between United States (U.S.) officials and Nicol├бs Maduro in Venezuela.
Press Release Jul 15, 2021 HRF Brings UN Attention to Rights Abuses in Venezuala, Uganda, and Zimbabwe NEW YORK (July 15, 2021) тАФ Yesterday, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) submitted contributions to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights CouncilтАЩs Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Venezuela, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
Press Release Mar 9, 2021 MaduroтАЩs Responsibility for Venezuelan Crisis Needs to Be Unequivocally Acknowledged, Not Whitewashed, by UN Special Rapporteur NEW YORK (March 9, 2021) тАУ The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) urges Alena Douhan, UN Special Rapporteur on the Negative Impact of the Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights
Press Release Feb 3, 2021 HRF to Biden Administration: Focus on Worst Human Rights Offenders NEW YORK (February 3, 2021) тАУ Following the inauguration of President Joseph Biden in the United States on January 20, 2021
Press Release Dec 17, 2020 ICC Releases New Report Regarding Maduro Regime’s Crimes Against Humanity NEW YORK (December 17, 2020) тАУ The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) welcomes the report by the Office of the International Criminal CourtтАЩs Prosecutor released on Monday, December 14
Press Release Nov 12, 2020 HRF Submits Joint Petition to UN on MaduroтАЩs Persecution of Judge Afiuni NEW YORK (November 12, 2020) тАУ Today, the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (RWCHR), the International Bar AssociationтАЩs Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI)
