Blog Post Oct 28, 2020 Protecting and Advancing LGBTQI Rights Globally At the 2020 Oslo Freedom Forum, the Human Rights Foundation turned a focus on protecting and advancing LGBTQI rights globally in a panel discussion sponsored by The Friedrich Naumann Foundation…
Blog Post Aug 10, 2020 Vietnam’s COVID Success Belies Escalating Crackdown on Rights Recently, Vietnam’s government has received praise in the media for the country’s low reported COVID-19 infection numbers and death rates. However, international media outlets should not be so quick to…
Blog Post Jul 30, 2020 Uncovering The Links Between Authoritarianism and Human Trafficking Today, July 30, is the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. Trafficking is a problem that touches all corners of the world, entrapping thousands of men, women, and children each…
Blog Post Jun 13, 2020 Activism In A Time of Pandemic The most important part of activism has always been connecting citizens and building support.
Blog Post Apr 27, 2020 Repression and Persecution Under Tajikistan’s Authoritarian Regime By HRF’s Center for Law & Democracy Last month, voters in Tajikistan took to the polls to elect their new Assembly of Representatives.
Blog Post Apr 20, 2020 Hong Kong Government Targets Pro-Democracy Activists Amid COVID-19 Over the weekend, news that the Hong Kong government conducted a mass arrest of 15 pro-democracy politicians and activists swept across social media.
Blog Post Mar 12, 2020 Using fashion as silent protest in North Korea From wearing lipstick to putting on a pair of jeans, fashion has become a political statement for North Koreans.
Blog Post Feb 13, 2020 Authoritarian regimes are ill-equipped for public health emergencies When the Wuhan coronavirus rose to international attention in mid-January, we saw many well-reported articles detailing the ways that Chinese authorities suppressed information about the epidemic in its early stages.
Blog Post Dec 30, 2019 Street protests vs. authoritarianism: from 2019 to the decade ahead Is 2019 the year of the street protester?
Blog Post Jun 25, 2019 How Bitcoin Can Help In The Fight For Human Rights (Forbes) Your financial transactions say a lot about where you’ve been, what you were doing, and what you intended to do — making them a perfect way to surveil you.
Blog Post Apr 25, 2019 Manal al-Sharif Responds to Invitation from Saudi Embassy On Wednesday April 17, the spokesperson of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia to the United States posted this message on Twitter.
Blog Post Jan 16, 2019 Enes Kanter: Anyone who speaks out against Erdogan is a target. That includes me. “Keep calm and play ball.” That’s what some people tell me when I use my National Basketball Association platform to speak out against Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, the place I grew up and where my family still lives. The advice I prefer comes from Colin Kaepernick’s Nike ad campaign: “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.”
Blog Post Jul 2, 2018 The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown In December 2015, thousands of tech entrepreneurs and analysts, along with a few international heads of state, gathered in Wuzhen, in southern China, for the country’s second World Internet Conference. At…
Blog Post Jun 22, 2018 Iran Human Rights Monitor Monthly Report – May 2018 This includes at least 16 executions, five flogging sentences, 17 cases of state sponsored killings, increased pressure on prisoners, beating street vendors and destroying people’s houses by the municipality agents,…
Blog Post Apr 23, 2018 HRF Congratulates Shawkan For Winning UNESCO’s Press Freedom Prize HRF congratulates Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid, commonly known as Shawkan, for winning UNESCO’s Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize for his fearless reporting during anti-regime protests, and in recognition of…
Blog Post Oct 18, 2025 Today CCP opened its 19th Party Congress. We call for the release of Gao Zhisheng on this occasion. October 18th marks the beginning of China’s dictatorial Communist Party’s 19th Party Congress. On this occasion, HRF calls for the release of Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
Blog Post Oct 13, 2017 The Russia Download // Special issue on elections and disinformation Last week, Facebook’s disclosure that an estimated 10 million people in the United States saw political ads bought by accounts connected to the Russian government rekindled the conversation about Russia’s interference in the U.S. elections.
Blog Post Jul 18, 2017 UN Condemns Cuba for Arbitrary Detention of El Sexto In a ruling published today , the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) explained that Maldonado was denied due process, and recommended the Cuban State to provide him with compensation for his nearly two months of wrongful imprisonment.
Blog Post Jul 18, 2017 ONU condena a Cuba por detención arbitraria de El Sexto En una opinión publicada hoy, el Grupo de Trabajo sobre la Detención Arbitraria de la ONU (GTDA) determinó que el Estado cubano privó arbitrariamente a Maldonado de su derecho a un debido proceso legal, y recomendó una indemnización por los casi dos meses de prisión que el artista estuvo detenido.
Blog Post Jul 7, 2017 Russia tried to stop us from protesting On June 12, when I arrived to St. Petersburg’s Marsovo field, it wasn’t clear who came to participate in a protest and who was there just to celebrate Russia Day.
