Announcement Oct 15, 2024 Media Highlights Q3 Booklet 2024 Authoritarian regimes repress, censor, and silence dissent each and every day, which is why the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) calls out tyrants through informative op-eds and press-worthy campaigns earning over 31.8 billion global impressions, 9.02K mentions by media outlets, and coverage in 129 countries.
Announcement Jul 5, 2024 Media Highlights Q2 Booklet 2024 Authoritarian regimes repress, censor, and silence dissent each and every day, which is why the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) calls out tyrants through informative op-eds and press-worthy campaigns.
Blog Post Mar 28, 2024 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #17 In Hong Kong, lawmakers have passed a new national security law aimed at suppressing dissent among citizens. Meanwhile, the ruling Indian government has frozen the bank accounts of the Indian National Congress, the largest political opposition group in the country, further raising concerns over the erosion of freedom and democracy.
Blog Post Mar 11, 2024 Venezuela expelled the UN: Why it matters By the end of this year, three of Latin America’s worst authoritarian regimes will undergo mandatory reviews of their country’s human rights record.
Media Mar 8, 2024 2024 Q1 Top Media Hits Authoritarian regimes repress, censor, and silence dissent each and every day, which is why the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) calls out tyrants through informative op-eds and press-worthy campaigns.
Blog Post Dec 14, 2023 The 2023 Dictators’ Playbook: Stripping Dissidents of Citizenship In 2023, emboldened tyrants from Central America to Eastern Europe engaged in more drastic and crueler forms of repression in order to stamp out any possible challenges to their rule. The dictatorial regimes of Belarus and Nicaragua, for example, have taken their repression across their own borders, stripping exiled dissidents of their citizenship.
Press Release Nov 14, 2023 HRF Launches Central Bank Digital Currency Tracker Today, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) launched the Central Bank Digital Currency Tracker, a pioneering initiative that maps the development and global implementation of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
Announcement Oct 1, 2023 2023 Q3 Media Highlights Booklet Authoritarian regimes repress, censor, and silence dissent each and every day, which is why the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) calls out tyrants through informative op-eds and press-worthy campaigns.
Announcement Sep 27, 2023 HRF Bitcoin Development Fund Grants $505,000 to 15 Projects Worldwide The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce its latest round of gifts from the Bitcoin Development Fund.
Blog Post Aug 24, 2023 The Dictators Toolkit: Disguised Judicial Attacks Independent judges are a nightmare for would-be dictators. They have the immense power to overturn the abusive actions of creeping authoritarian regimes by acquitting dissidents of bogus charges, holding regime officials accountable, or upholding free and fair elections.
Blog Post Jul 31, 2023 Threats Against Journalists in Asia: Online Trolling and Jailing of Reporters A free and independent press is essential to the functioning of a democratic society. It allows citizens to access information and hold their leaders accountable.
Announcement Jul 7, 2023 HRF’s 2023 Q2 Media Highlights Booklet Authoritarian regimes repress, censor, and silence dissent each and every day, which is why the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) calls out tyrants through informative op-eds and press-worthy campaigns.
Publication Jun 13, 2023 The Long Game – HRF x The Signal For 17 years, democracy has been in decline globally. According to Freedom House, a Washington-based research organization founded in 1941, not only has the number of democracies dropped; the democratic health of many countries that remain democracies—including the biggest among them, the United States and India—has deteriorated as well.
Blog Post Dec 21, 2022 Champion of Freedom: The Fearless Women of Iran & Afghanistan The condition of women and girls is a significant indicator of the democratic status of a country and 2022 proved that, in many places around the globe, the diagnosis isn’t good: The systematic assault on women’s rights under authoritarian regimes was illuminated time and again, especially in the Middle East and South Asia.
Blog Post Dec 21, 2022 Champion of the Forgotten: The Overlooked Dictatorships of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos Last month, thousands took to the streets of China in response to the Chinese Communist Party’s severe pandemic lockdowns.
Blog Post Dec 21, 2022 Champion of Courage: How Ukraine is Fighting For its Future Last month, thousands took to the streets of China in response to the Chinese Communist Party’s severe pandemic lockdowns.
Press Release Jul 19, 2022 Angola’s Dos Santos Died, Leaves Legacy of Kleptocracy NEW YORK (July 19, 2022) — José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola’s former dictator, died on July 8 in a Barcelona hospital after a long illness.
Blog Post Dec 17, 2021 Igniting the Truth on Corruption It is no secret that over the past several years, respect for democratic institutions and human rights has deteriorated around the world.
Blog Post Dec 17, 2021 Igniting the Truth on Transnational Repression It is no secret that over the past several years, respect for democratic institutions and human rights has deteriorated around the world.
Announcement Dec 6, 2021 Watch the 2021 Oslo Freedom Forum Speaker Talks On October 4-5, 2021, our community gathered for the 13th annual Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF), which was held for the first time in Miami, Florida.
