Financial Freedom Reports

A weekly newsletter focusing on the role currency and banking play in the civil liberties and human rights struggles of those living under authoritarian regimes.

Financial Freedom Reports

A weekly newsletter focusing on the role currency and banking play in the civil liberties and human rights struggles of those living under authoritarian regimes.

The Financial Freedom Report is a weekly newsletter that exposes how authoritarian regimes weaponize money against activists and citizens alike.

It also highlights how open-source technologies help people resist financial repression. Each edition features timely news, updates on censorship-resistant tools, and recommended content.

Mar 7, 2024

HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #14

This week’s news focuses on the growing interest in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) from governments. Turkey concluded its initial research phase, while Ghana revealed ambitious plans to launch its own CBDC.

Feb 23, 2024

HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #12

Over the last week, we mourned the murder of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny by Vladimir Putin’s regime.

Feb 16, 2024

HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #11

In the past week, we’ve seen Kosovo’s ban on the Serbian currency, a cross-border CBDC transaction between regimes in the United Arab Emirates and China, Bitcoin claim all-time highs against a variety of different fiat currencies, and a long-awaited breakthrough in the Lightning Network that promises to significantly boost user privacy.

Feb 1, 2024

HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #9

This past week, Egyptians were told to put up with soaring inflation, while we saw Kazakhstan’s financial suppression of journalists and Pakistan’s continued rise in Bitcoin adoption.

Jan 25, 2024

HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #8

Today we bring you news of Chinese citizens trading cryptocurrency despite a state-imposed ban, Russia’s recent blockage of VPN services and privacy protocols ahead of next month’s presidential elections, and Venezuela’s attempt to pass legislation that takes aim at the funding of civil society organizations and human rights defenders.

Jan 18, 2024

HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #7

This week, we delve into censorship on the Indian app stores, protests in Papua New Guinea triggered by pay cuts to the police, Ghana borrowing another $600 million from the IMF, and a new Bitcoin circular economy in Zambia.

Jan 11, 2024

HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #6

This week, we brief you on China’s censorship of economic indicators, the freezing of bank accounts of indigenous activists in the Philippines, and the record inflation rate in Pakistan.

Jan 4, 2024

HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #5

We start 2024 with an exciting announcement: HRF granted $500,000 to 18 projects worldwide. Our Q4 gifts focused on global education, Bitcoin Core, mining decentralization, and projects that support freedom tech developers in closed societies.

Dec 21, 2023

HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #4

For this week’s Financial Freedom report, we cover currency devaluation in Argentina, Hong Kong’s National Police arresting individuals for donating to pro-democracy activists, and recent product launches helping make Bitcoin easy to send worldwide.

Dec 14, 2023

HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #3

This week’s Financial Freedom report covers everything from extreme inflation under regimes in Zimbabwe and Iran to a newly exposed vulnerability allowing tyrants to track mobile phone usage of their citizens to Bitcoin software updates putting more power in the hands of users worldwide.

Nov 30, 2023

HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #2

From Singapore pioneering the use of central bank digital currencies to staggering currency debasement in Cuba and Egypt, it is evident that governments worldwide continue to abuse their digital power.

Nov 22, 2023

HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #1

In this newsletter, HRF will provide useful stories and information to help us better understand the global impact of growing worldwide Bitcoin adoption.

Nov 21, 2023

Introducing HRF’s Financial Freedom Newsletter

I’m Ayelen Osorio, and I recently joined the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) as a Financial Freedom specialist. With HRF, I look forward to exploring the various ways people living under authoritarian regimes are reclaiming their financial freedom with new technology.

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