Blog Post Jun 24, 2021 Cult of Personality in Turkmenistan Cults of personality are some of the most notable features of any dictatorship.
Blog Post May 28, 2021 HRF Calls For the Release of Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan on His Birthday Today is the birthday of Saudi humanitarian aid worker Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan. It is the fourth birthday spent behind bars for his peaceful online activism.
Blog Post Apr 30, 2021 The Real Reformers of Saudi Arabia Seven years ago, human rights lawyer Waleed Abulkhair was arrested in Saudi Arabia.
Blog Post Mar 25, 2021 Is The End Near For Viktor Orbán? For more than 10 years, Viktor Orbán and his cronies have ruled Hungary.
Blog Post Feb 22, 2021 Dictatorship Sows Division in Nagorno-Karabakh From September to November of 2020, Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a bloody war over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and its surroundings.
Blog Post Feb 18, 2021 Protest Runway: The Use of Color & Fashion in Global Pro-Democracy Movements It’s New York Fashion Week — while many people have their eyes on the runway, street protests are giving glamorous fashion shows some serious competition.
Blog Post Feb 3, 2021 After Navalny’s Conviction, It’s Time for the Biden Administration to Act On February 2, following a sham trial in Moscow, Putin critic Alexey Navalny was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison under the pretense of having violated his parole by seeking emergency treatment in Germany, following an assassination attempt by Russia’s secret police, the FSB.
Blog Post Jan 31, 2021 The Last Internet Shutdowns On January 13, 2021, the regime of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni ordered internet service providers to suspend all but essential government communications, plunging the country into a complete internet blackout the day before the presidential elections.
Blog Post Jan 29, 2021 What’s Happening in Xinjiang? Q&A With Uyghur Activist Jewher Ilham China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, also known as the Uyghur Region or East Turkestan, is home to millions of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities.
Blog Post Jan 14, 2021 Is Saudi Arabia’s Kafala System Truly Reformed? In early November 2020, Saudi Arabia’s deputy minister for human resources announced that Saudi Arabia would be easing “foreign workers’ contractual restrictions”
Blog Post Jan 4, 2021 Challenges & Triumphs of 2020: Women-Led Protest Movements Advance The past year has brought remarkable changes in the way we live our everyday lives.
Blog Post Dec 31, 2020 Challenges & Triumphs of 2020: Challenging Tyranny Through Creativity The past year has brought remarkable changes in the way we live our everyday lives.
Blog Post Dec 31, 2020 Challenges & Triumphs of 2020: Whitewashing Enables Dictators, Fans Fight Back The past year has brought remarkable changes in the way we live our everyday lives.
Blog Post Dec 29, 2020 Challenges & Triumphs of 2020: Technology Emerges As A Tool for Tyrants (and Dissidents) The past year has brought remarkable changes in the way we live our everyday lives. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Blog Post Dec 28, 2020 Challenges & Triumphs of 2020: Authoritarians Weaponize COVID-19 The past year has brought remarkable changes in the way we live our everyday lives.
Blog Post Dec 23, 2020 What’s Happening in Hong Kong? Q&A With HK Activist Johnson Yeung 2020 has been an especially difficult year for Hongkongers tirelessly fighting against the authoritarian Chinese regime.
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 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.”
