Report Aug 11, 2026 Toolkit to Counter the Chinese Communist Party’s Transnational Repression The Human Rights Foundation’s Toolkit to Counter the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Transnational Repression (TNR) is a direct outcome of HRF’s 2026 Beyond Borders workshop, which brought together young activists from Uyghur, Hong Konger, Tibetan, Chinese, and Southern Mongolian diasporas and Taiwan.
Report Jul 23, 2026 Universal Periodic Review Submission for the Syrian Arab Republic The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies.
Report Jul 23, 2026 Universal Periodic Review Submission for Sudan The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies.
Report Jun 24, 2026 Football in Equatorial Guinea’s dynastic family dictatorship Equatorial Guinea, a tiny central African nation which gained its independence from Spain in 1968, has been under the rule of a dynastic family dictatorship for nearly six decades.
Report Jun 23, 2026 How the Regime in Equatorial Guinea Exploits Football Equatorial Guinea’s regime has strategically exploited the global appeal of football as a political tool.
Report Jun 16, 2026 Open Letter to Will Smith Dear Will Smith, The Human Rights Foundation has taken note of your active efforts to promote Angola as a tourist destination in the film and sports industries, including through endorsement of the government-backed “Visit Angola” campaign, via your E1 team, Westbrook Racing.
Report May 19, 2026 Bitcoin for Nonprofits: A Guide To Help Your Movement Achieve Financial Freedom In the winter of 2018, Anna Chekhovich was sitting in the Moscow offices of the Anti-Corruption Foundation when the call came. Their bank accounts had been frozen. All of them, overnight, on orders from the Kremlin. For most organizations, this would be a death sentence: no salaries, no legal fees, no operational budget, no oxygen. But years earlier, when the political climate was already darkening and Chekhovich could feel the walls closing in, the foundation had quietly begun accepting Bitcoin donations. It was a precaution, almost an afterthought at the time, but it became one of the key things keeping them alive.
Report May 12, 2026 Dictators and Diplomas: Why Foreign Autocracies Funding American Universities Threatens Democracy, Destroys Academic Freedom, and Entrenches Anti-Democratic Regimes For years, foreign dictatorships and their proxies have searched out any number of ways to influence policy and discourse in the United States. From hiring fleets of lobbyists to setting up dark money networks, from bankrolling sports leagues to launching disinformation campaigns on American social media platforms, from backing strategic investments to hiring consulting firms and white-shoe law firms, the list of targets is lengthy.
Report Mar 13, 2026 Doja Cat Rwanda Concert Letter The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has learned of your plans to perform in Kigali, Rwanda, on March 17, 2026, as part of the Move Afrika tour.
Report Mar 9, 2026 Written Observations to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Advisory Opinion on Democracy HRF submits that democracy constitutes a legally binding human right under the Inter-American system.
Report Feb 27, 2026 HRF’s Tyranny Tracker Launch Booklet When HRF was founded in 2005, it focused predominantly on calling attention to the abuses of authoritarian regimes in Latin America.
Report Dec 23, 2025 2025 Financial Freedom Impact Report 2025 was a milestone year for HRF’s Financial Freedom program. It was defined by growth, collaboration, and real progress.
Report Dec 2, 2025 HRF urges Katy Perry to cancel Abu Dhabi concert over UAE role in Sudan conflict Dear Katy Perry: The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) respectfully urges you to cancel your post-race concert at the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on December 7, 2025, to protest the United Arab Emirate’s (UAE) role in fueling the mass atrocities and violence taking place during the conflict in Sudan and the world’s largest humanitarian catastrophe in the country.
Report Oct 31, 2025 The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin Bitcoin is a financial lifeline for dissidents resisting authoritarian regimes. The rise of cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs) with the ability to crack Bitcoin’s underlying cryptography could threaten the network’s security foundations.
Report Oct 22, 2025 Singapore UPR NGO Submission This submission was prepared by HRF for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Republic of Singapore (“Singapore”).
