Report Aug 28, 2025 Financial Freedom Report #87 In Russia, Vladimir Putin signed a new law allowing police to freeze citizens’ bank accounts for up to 10 days without a court order. While framed as an anti-fraud measure, the law gives police a fast and…
Report Aug 21, 2025 Financial Freedom Report #86 In Cuba, the peso’s parallel market rate increased to 400 pesos per US dollar, a record low reflecting a 94% devaluation in just a few years. High inflation, stagnant wages
Report Aug 14, 2025 Youthquake: Youth-led Movements Shaking Up East and Southeast Asia In recent years, youth across East and Southeast Asia, and around the world, have spearheaded the demand for democracy, justice, and freedom.
Report Jul 23, 2025 2025 OFF Recap Report This year’s theme, Imagine, sought to take another step toward seeing the world as it should be — not as it is. In authoritarian regimes, even the simple act of imagining a better future…
Report Jul 9, 2025 Rwanda UPR NGO Submission This submission was prepared by HRF, for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Rwanda.
Report Jul 9, 2025 Georgia UPR NGO Submission This submission was prepared by HRF for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Georgia.
Report Mar 21, 2025 CISA Research Paper In 2024, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) launched a research fellowship to explore the implications of Cross-Input Signature Aggregation (CISA), a proposed Bitcoin upgrade that would significantly lower the cost of private transactions.
Report Feb 13, 2025 HRF pens open letter to John Legend The Human Rights Foundation has learned of your plans to perform in Kigali, Rwanda, on Feb. 21, 2025, as part of Move Afrika — a collaboration between the Rwandan government, Global Citizen, and pgLang.
Report Feb 1, 2025 2024 Annual Report Authoritarian regimes continued stealing elections and attempting to silence pro-democracy activists and human rights defenders in the countries they control with an iron fist.
Report Oct 1, 2024 Media Highlights 2024 Q3 The Human Rights Foundation’s (HRF) work is covered by top global media outlets, reaching millions of people worldwide.
Report Jul 1, 2024 Media Highlights Q2 Booklet 2024 The Human Rights Foundation’s (HRF) work is covered by top global media outlets, reaching millions of people worldwide.
Report Jun 5, 2024 2024 OFF Recap Report The 2024 OFF theme, Reclaim Democracy, emphasized the pivotal role every individual — speaker and participant alike — plays within the global movement for freedom and democracy.
Report Apr 11, 2024 VKM – Statement of Facts and Levinson Analysis Analysis of the Eleven (11) 2020 Robert Levinson Act Factors and Why Vladimir Kara-Murza Must Be Treated as a U.S. National and Immediately Designated as Wrongfully Detained by the U.S. Department of State.
Report Apr 1, 2024 Media Highlights 2024 Q1 The Human Rights Foundation’s (HRF) work is covered by top global media outlets, reaching millions of people worldwide.
Report Mar 1, 2024 HRF Authoritarianism Partnerships Report Modern slavery, also known as “human trafficking” and “trafficking in persons” exists everywhere, and is on the rise.
Report Feb 6, 2024 New HRF Report: Sex Trafficking in Cuba Today, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) published a new report, “Sex Trafficking in Cuba: A Form of Gender-Based Violence and Human Trafficking,” as part of its ongoing series exploring the links between human trafficking and authoritarianism.
Report Feb 1, 2024 Infiltrating America: How the United Arab Emirates Launched an Unprecedented Political Interference Campaign in the United States For years, one foreign dictatorship has overseen an unprecedented interference effort aimed at the heart of the U.S. political process, unleashing squadrons of lobbyists while launching illicit campaigns that reached directly into the highest ranks of the American government.
Report Jan 1, 2024 HRF Report: Sex Trafficking in Cuba For years, the Cuban regime has failed to comply with its international law obligations aimed at protecting victims of human trafficking.
Report Dec 31, 2023 2023 Annual Report In 2023, as you will read in our report, we used international legal avenues, sound research methods, artistic and cultural platforms, and new technologies to expose the world’s worst tyrants, shift public attitudes, and directly support those on the frontlines of the struggle for freedom and democracy.
