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 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.
Blog Post Sep 15, 2022 El Creciente Autoritarismo de Bukele en El Salvador En 2019, Nayib Bukele sacudió la escena política de El Salvador, convirtiéndose en el primer presidente democráticamente elegido en décadas en alcanzar la presidencia sin ser miembro de ninguno de los dos principales partidos políticos del país: el Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) en la izquierda, o la Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) en la derecha.
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.
Blog Post Aug 23, 2022 Bukele’s Authoritarian Path in El Salvador In 2019, Nayib Bukele shook El Salvador’s political scene, becoming the first democratically-elected president in decades who was not a member of either of the country’s two major political parties — the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) or the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA).
Blog Post Aug 9, 2022 Why We Must Remember Belarus in 2022 Today marks the 2nd anniversary of the 2020 presidential election in Belarus. During this election, the people of Belarus made it clear that they reject the presidency of Alexander Lukashenko — a brutal dictator who has ruled the country since 1994 — by voting instead for Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and choosing a free and democratic path for their country.
Blog Post Aug 1, 2022 Resident Artist Spotlight: Lilia Kvatsabaya In August 2020, Lilia Kvatsabaya, a Belarusian graphic design student, found herself amid the largest protests in the country’s history.
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.
Blog Post Jul 20, 2022 Belarus’ Lukashenko is Challenging International Norms. We Must Stop Him. Entire cities besieged and razed to the ground, millions of people displaced, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of destruction, and, most tragically, thousands of people killed and grieving lost loved ones — that is a reality for millions of Ukrainians whose country was invaded by Russia’s Vladimir Putin almost five months ago.
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.
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.
Blog Post Mar 12, 2022 Four Years Since the Arbitrary Detention of Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan Today marks the four-year anniversary of the arbitrary detention and forced disappearance of Saudi humanitarian aid worker and online activist Abdulrahman al-Sadhan.
Blog Post Feb 18, 2022 Kazakhstan in Context: Cult of Personality In early January, tens of thousands of people across Kazakhstan protested after a sharp rise in the price of gas.
Blog Post Feb 18, 2022 Kazakhstan in Context: A Repressive State In early January, tens of thousands of people across Kazakhstan protested after a sharp rise in the price of gas.
Blog Post Feb 18, 2022 Kazakhstan in Context: Corrupt to the Core In early January, tens of thousands of people across Kazakhstan protested after a sharp rise in the price of gas.
Blog Post Jan 21, 2022 The Ignorance and Reluctance of the Rich and the Famous In a recent episode of the podcast “All-In,” Chamath Palihapitiya, billionaire venture capitalist, stakeholder of the Golden State Warriors, and Chairman of Virgin Galactic, commented that “nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs… Of all the things that I care about, it is below my line.”
