Blog Post Feb 10, 2025 The Playbook: How Saudi Arabia Uses Tennis to Present a Facade of Women’s Reforms When Saudi Arabia hosted one of the most important events in professional women’s tennis, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Finals, in November, it wasn’t, of course, without controversy. The New York Times put it this way:
Publication Dec 12, 2024 The U.S. Can Support Democracy and Human Rights Through Bitcoin Bitcoin has emerged as a transformative tool in the fight for human rights, financial inclusion, and democracy.
Video Series Dec 5, 2024 The Case of Luis Fernando Camacho On December 28, 2022, Bolivian democratic opposition leader and Governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, was violently arrested on false “terrorism” charges, and has since been locked up and isolated inside the maximum security prison of Chonchocoro, La Paz, located at 4,000 meters above sea level.
Video Series Nov 22, 2022 Gao Zhen: Arbitrarily Detained Just for Creating Art Chinese artist Gao Zhen was arrested for creating art that confronts the dark truths of China’s Cultural Revolution. He remains in jail to this day.
Blog Post Oct 18, 2024 A History of Sports & Dictators, Part 4: Soviet Sports propaganda When Tsar Peter I — better known as Peter the Great — visited England in 1689, he arranged what has been called the “first international boxing match” in the garden of the nobleman’s home.
Blog Post Sep 6, 2024 A History of Sports & Dictators, Part 3: Post-WWII Soft Power Long before the inception of the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece, sports have been used to distract the masses, test foreign policies, thaw diplomatic tensions, and broadcast political and social messaging.
Video Series Sep 6, 2024 The Uyghur Region | The Struggle for Freedom, Explained In this episode of “The Struggle for Freedom, Explained” Jewher Ilham, renowned Uyghur advocate and daughter of Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti, and Peter Irwin, Associate Director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, explain the Chinese regime’s targeted human rights abuses of the Uyghur people, and how China is exploiting Uyghurs for its economic goals. Watch the episode to learn more.
Publication Aug 27, 2024 US senators call out NBA’s relationship with Rwanda dictator Paul Kagame: ‘Putting profit over principle’ Two United States senators have accused the NBA of “putting profit over principle,” which was detailed in a letter sent to commissioner Adam Silver…
Publication Aug 27, 2024 Oregon Sen. Merkley raises concerns over reported NBA ties to Rwandan dictatorship Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley sent a letter to National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver on Tuesday, raising concerns over the organization’s reported ties to dictators.
Publication Aug 27, 2024 NBA under fire: U.S. Senators slam league’s ties to controversial Rwandan leader The NBA finds itself in the hot seat once again, but this time, it’s not over a controversial call or a player feud-it’s a matter of global ethics.
Video Series Aug 26, 2024 The Case of Toomaj Salehi Rapper and human rights activist, Toomaj Salehi was sentenced to death under bogus charges due to his songs, activism and speaking out against the Iranian regime. HRF submitted a petition to the United Nation’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on Toomaj’s behalf asking for his unconditional release.
Blog Post Aug 9, 2024 A History of Sports & Dictators, Part 2: The Rise of Fascism Long before the inception of the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece, sports have been used to distract the masses, test foreign policies, thaw diplomatic tensions, and broadcast political and social messaging.
Press Release Jul 31, 2024 Ongoing Electoral Fraud in Venezuela The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) reiterates its strong condemnation of dictator Nicolás Maduro’s fraudulent proclamation as Venezuela’s reelected president.
Press Release Jul 29, 2024 HRF condena el resultado fraudulento de las elecciones en Venezuela y exige la salida de Nicolás Maduro Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condena categóricamente el recientemente anunciado y claramente fraudulento resultado de la elección por parte del régimen autoritario venezolano, otorgando al dictador Nicolás 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 regime’s recently announced and patently fraudulent election results, giving dictator Nicolás Maduro a victory with 51.20% of the national vote.
Publication Jul 26, 2024 How the NBA got into business with an African dictator In the summer of 2018, inside a national arena that felt more like a small-college gym, the NBA commissioner shot free throws with the president of Rwanda.
Op-Ed Jul 19, 2024 Authoritarian Qatar puts 2,000 cops and armoured cars on the streets of Paris Two weeks before the Olympic Games are set to kick off in Paris, Qatari security forces, equipped with armoured vehicles and urban camouflage livery, arrived in the French capital to help “secure” the global event.
Video Series Jul 12, 2024 The Case of Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Aliou Sané In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential elections in Senegal, concern and uncertainty over whether President Macky Sall would pursue a third, unconstitutional term, along with his regime’s efforts to bar opposition leader Ousmane Sonko from the polls, fueled popular discontent, protests, and a wave of repression on dissent.
Publication Jul 10, 2024 26 million tons of clothing end up in China’s landfills each year, propelled by fast fashion At a factory in Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a workroom floor.
