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Dec 31, 2015

2015 Annual Report

Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. We are driven by the founding ideals of the human rights movement, those most purely represented in the 1976 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. We seek, in particular, to advance liberty where it’s most under threat.

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