Press Releases

04/11/2013
Venezuela: HRF Calls for Dismissal of Case Against Auto Mechanic Who Wore “Anti-Revolutionary” T-shirt

03/15/2013
OAS: HRF calls on Secretary General Insulza to Promote an Electoral Observation Mission in Venezuela

02/06/2013
Human Rights Foundation Calls On Goldman Sachs To Cancel Russia Consulting Deal 

01/17/2013
Venezuela: HRF calls on Venezuelan authorities to release Judge María Lourdes Afiuni, publishes legal report on her case  

12/28/2012
Best wishes for the New Year! 

12/27/2012
2012 at HRF: A Year of Hard Impact 

12/18/2012
One Year After His Passing, HRF Remembers Václav Havel 

12/15/2012
Juilliard Composer Announces Requiem for Victims of Kazakhstan Massacre to premiere in 2013  

12/14/2012
Kazakhstan: HRF calls on President Nazarbayev to investigate torture, release opposition leader, and cease assault on independent media 

12/04/2012
134 Nobel Laureates Urge Incoming Chinese President Xi Jinping to Release Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and Wife Liu Xia 

11/13/2012
HRF in Forbes: DC Henchman of Kazakh Dictator Threatens HRF with Lawsuit 

11/12/2012
Chavez and Nazarbayev Celebrate Tyrannical Victory at U.N. Human Rights Council 

11/12/2012
HRF in New York Times: Voting for U.N. Rights Council Puts Focus on Records of Panel’s Member States 

11/07/2012
EVENT: HRF and UN Watch to Oppose Bids by Kazakhstan, Pakistan, and Venezuela to Join Top UN Human Rights Body  

11/6/2012
HRF in Foreign Policy: Nightmare Squared

10/17/2012
Kazakhstan: HRF Publishes An Open Letter to U.S. Leaders and Civil Society  

10/14/2012
Cuba Video: “Ladies in White” One Year after the Death of Laura Pollán  

10/12/2012
China: Joint Statement by International Support Committee to Liu Xiaobo 

10/03/2012
Venezuela: HRF Asks UN to Investigate Confessions of Former Supreme Court Justice; Publishes Report on Subordination of Judiciary to the Executive 

09/25/2012
Pakistan: HRF Submits Petition and Report to UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women in Mukhtar Mai Case  

09/18/2012
HRF Expands Focus to Include Equatorial Guinea, Kazakhstan, and Singapore 

09/10/2012
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in San Francisco to receive Václav Havel Prize; Top Innovators and Dissidents Unite at San Francisco Freedom Forum  

08/23/2012
Update on HRF’s Equatorial Guinea Campaign 

08/17/2012
Russia: HRF Condemns Sentencing of Pussy Riot to 2 Years in Prison; Conviction Violates the European Convention on Human Rights 

08/17/2012
RUSSIA: Garry Kasparov Beaten, Arrested in Moscow Outside Pussy Riot Trial 

08/16/2012
Russia: HRF legal report on the Pussy Riot case concludes: Punk rock band should be acquitted 

08/07/2012
Sullivan Foundation on the Defense: Responds to Criticism with Praise of Equatoguinean Dictator 

08/03/12
HRF Urges Washington Charity to Cancel Human Rights Summit Sponsored by Equatorial Guinea’s Dictator

08/02/12
RUSSIA: Kasparov on Olympic Corruption in the London Times

05/04/2012
HRF Elects Garry Kasparov as New Chairman

05/02/2012
Inaugural Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent Awarded to Ai Weiwei, Manal al-Sharif, and Aung San Suu Kyi

04/19/2012 
Human Rights Without Borders

04/11/2012
The Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent

04/06/2012
Leaders Unite at the 2012 Oslo Freedom Forum; Stand Against Dictatorship, Censorship, and Slavery

03/14/2012
The Brin Wojcicki Foundation to Sponsor 2012 Oslo Freedom Forum

03/06/2012
HRF Mourns the Loss of James Q. Wilson (1931 – 2012)

02/25/2012
And the Nominees for Outstanding Performance in the Service of Human Rights Are...

01/23/2012
HRF Submits Pakistan Report to UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women

01/05/2012
Ecuador: High Court Confirms Three Years of Prison and $40M Fine for Journalist Critical of the President

12/18/2011
Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011 HRF in Mourning for its Departed Chairman—"Truth and love must prevail over lies and hate"

09/12/2011

HRF announces its membership in the International Committee to Support Liu Xiaobo

29/11/2011

HRF Mourns The Passing of Charles Hoeflich

04/11/2011

HRF Co-Sponsors Oxford University Press Book on “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P)

31/10/2011

Ecuador: HRF to High Court: Overturn $40 Million Verdict Against Emilio Palacio and El Universo

17/10/2011

Cuba: HRF mourns the passing of Laura Pollán, leader of the Ladies in White

10/13/2011

Hilary Swank apologizes—Pleads Ignorance; But Will She Keep Chechen Warlord’s Money?

10/07/11

Celebrities attend festivities of Chechnya’s human rights violator-in-chief; President Ramzan Kadyrov celebrated by Hilary Swank and Jean-Claude Van Damme

10/07/11
HRF congratulates Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Liberia's Leymah Gbowee

09/21/11

HRF’s Response to Durban III: Partnership with “We Have A Dream” Global Summit

09/19/11

HRF Welcomes IACourtHR Ruling on Case of López Mendoza, Asks Venezuela to Comply

07/15/11

Venezuela: HRF Condemns Two-Year Sentence against Oswaldo Álvarez Paz

07/13/11

Honduras: HRF Finds Truth Commission Report Conclusive and Balanced; Criticizes Recommended Reform of the Constitution

05/04/11

Cuban Blogger Yoani Sánchez Awarded CEPOS Freedom Prize in Denmark; Forbidden to Leave Cuba—Ceremony To Take Place May 5 in Copenhagen

04/06/11

Panama Expels Journalists for Exercising Freedom of the Press; HRF: President Martinelli Must Allow Spanish Journalists Back Into the Country

03/14/11

Cuba’s Black Spring: HRF demands amnesty for Oscar Elías Biscet and all paroled prisoners of conscience

03/01/11

HRF Files Amicus Brief with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Court’s Decision Could Set Precedent for Protecting Political Rights

02/16/11

HRF Partners with the Lech Walesa Institute and NYU Wagner to Present “Eye on Sudan”

01/21/11

HRF Declares Venezuelan Union Leader Rubén González a Prisoner of Conscience; Labor Organization Joins HRF in Demanding His Immediate Release

11/16/10

Yoani Sánchez Wins CEPOS Freedom Award

11/11/10

Video: “Ladies in White” Continue Peaceful Protest as Cuban Government Breaks Promise to Release Prisoners

10/8/10

Human Rights is Big Winner in Today's Nobel Peace Prize Selection

9/1/10

Cuba Video: The “Ladies in White” Steadfast Until Every Political Prisoner is Free

7/16/10

HRF in The Washington Times: Venezuelans charged for statements on Twitter

7/8/10

Ecuador: Video Presentation of Former Political Prisoner Guadalupe Llori

7/6/10

HRF and Activist María Conchita Alonso to Discuss Oliver Stone's Documentary on Fox Business News Tonight

5/27/10

Video on Venezuela: HRF Marks Third Anniversary of RCTV Shutdown

5/21/10

HRF Honors Global Cuba Solidarity Day

5/20/10

HRF's Oslo Freedom Forum Interview with Imprisoned Monk Thich Quang Do to Screen in California’s Vesak Festival

5/18/10

Venezuela: Political Prisoner Oswaldo Álvarez Paz Conditionally Released, HRF Calls for Dismissal of Case

5/11/10

HRF's Oslo Freedom Forum Screens Rare Interview with Imprisoned Monk for Vietnam Human Rights Day on Capitol Hill

4/29/10

Presidential Medal to Oslo Freedom Forum; Romania’s First Democratic Leader Celebrates Human Rights Conference

3/5/10

Venezuela: HRF declares Oswaldo Álvarez Paz a prisoner of conscience of the Chávez government; Warns about the “chilling effect” of his imprisonment

3/24/10

Insulza Dot No!

3/23/10

HRF to Appear on CNN en Español Tonight with Patricia Janiot

3/18/10

HRF on the Anniversary of “Black Spring:” Cuban Regime Must Release all Political Prisoners

3/17/10

OAS: HRF Launches www.Insulza.no, Urges Action

3/09/10

OAS: HRF Calls on Insulza to Resign as Secretary General; Report Reveals Mishandling of Honduran Crisis

2/2/10

Venezuela: HRF condemns media crackdown and relaunches its campaign for press freedom in Venezuela 

1/27/10

Angie Harmon, Patricia Heaton, David Hunt, Jason Sehorn, and Gary Sinise join HRF’s Haiti Relief Program

1/21/10

HRF Invites You to Join Haiti Relief for Children; Kelsey Grammer Provides Matching Grant

1/13/10

From a TV Set to Prison: Gustavo Azócar is "Caracas Nine" Dissident #6

11/12/09

Trustee Tries to Cancel The Sugar Babies Screening at the University of Miami

11/10/09

Cuban Bloggers Kidnapped, Assaulted by State Security on their Way to Peace March

11/06/09

HRF's The Sugar Babies at the University of Miami

9/09/09

HRF to Appear Tonight with Robert Morgenthau on Fox Business News with David Asman

08/26/09

HRF Mourns the Loss of Eduardo Mendoza

08/17/09

VIDEO: Voices for Democracy and Human Rights, from the Mayor of Oslo to the Former President of Venezuela

08/07/09

Video: Voices from The Economist to Amnesty International

08/02/09

Video: Human Rights Defenders from North Korea to Uzbekistan, from China to Bolivia

07/30/09

Norway Tells Cuba to Stop Attacking Human Rights Defender; Foreign Ministry Reprimands Cuban Ambassador

07/17/08

Video: From Three Cups of Tea to Protecting Uyghur Rights -- Testimonies from Activists Around the World

07/08/09

Video: Human Rights Voices from Turkey, Chad, Sweden, Chechnya, and the United States

06/26/09

HRF calls on the OAS to suspend Honduras' antidemocratic government

06/26/09

Video: Human Rights Heroes from Tibet, Russia, Cuba, and the United States

06/19/09

Video: Human Rights Heroes from the Czech Republic, Iran, China, and Venezuela

06/12/09

VIDEO: Elie Wiesel Opens Oslo Freedom Forum

06/11/09

HRF: OAS Perpetuates Injustice with Resolution in Favor of Cuban Government

06/05/09

WSJ on HRF's Oslo Freedom Forum: "Human Rights Beyond Ideology

04/22/09

HRF asks OAS head to cease promoting violations of the Democratic Charter

03/17/09

HRF Co-Sponsors Venezuelan Liberty Film Festival

02/26/09

HRF Urges OAS Action on Violations of Legislative Independence in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela

01/27/09

Washington Times Front Page: The new Che movie, HRF, and the Historical Record

01/16/2009

Tortured and Convicted in a Kangaroo Court for Capturing a Terrorist Leader: Humberto Quintero is “Caracas Nine” Dissident #5

12/18/2008

Sean Penn's Hypocrisy Prompts Media Exposure of Human Rights Violations in Cuba and Venezuela

12/11/2008

Cuba: Rights Activists Assaulted, Beaten, and Detained by Castro Government

11/26/2008

HRF Denounces Violations of Freedom of the Press and Asks OAS Secretary General--for the Third Time—to Activate the Democratic Clause

11/07/2008

HRF to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe: Respect the Work of Human Rights Defenders

10/23/2008

Bolivia: HRF Will Investigate Arbitrary Detentions and Rights Violations

10/15/2008

HRF Urges the OAS to Activate the Democratic Clause: Second Letter in “The Inter-American Democratic Charter and Mr. Insulza” Project

08/10/2008

Bolivia: HRF Releases Report On Political Violence

09/24/2008

Ecuador: Guadalupe Llori Freed from Prison

09/19/2008

HRW Director José Miguel Vivanco Detained and Expelled for Denouncing Violations in Venezuela

09/17/2008

HRF Opens Chapter in Ecuador

09/04/2008

HRF presents Guadalupe Llori's case to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

08/26/2008

Venezuelan Journalist a Target of Violence and Threats: Marta Colomina is “Caracas Nine” Dissident #4

08/20/2008

OAS Head Insulza Faulted for Inaction on Human Rights

08/07/2008

HRF Sends Letter Denouncing Ecuador's Treatment of Prisoner of Conscience Guadalupe Llori; Correa's Government Responds

07/18/2008

HRF Launches “Tell Chávez” Campaign for Venezuela’s Political Prisoners

07/02/2008

Hostages Rescued in Colombia; Colombian Government Offers the FARC a “Dignified Peace”

06/18/2008

Human Rights Foundation responds to President Correa’s accusations and declares Guadalupe Llori a political prisoner of Ecuador’s government

05/27/2008

Venezuela: HRF Commemorates Freedom of Expression on the Anniversary of the Shutdown of RCTV

05/12/2008
Ecuador: Constituent Assembly Laws Violate Numerous Human Rights Treaties

05/05/2008

Bolivia: HRF Announces Preliminary Findings as Election Observers

04/30/2008

Dissident from Caracas Nine Awarded Cato Liberty Prize

04/18/2008

HRF on Cuba in today's Wall Street Journal

03/17/2008

Ecuador Denies Opposition Politician Her Freedom; Government Dealings with FARC Reveal Double Standard

03/05/2008
Lynching, Communal Justice, and Bolivia’s New Constitution

02/07/2008

HRF in today's Washington Times: Colombia's FARC and Venezuela

01/17/2008

Venezuelan government continues attack on independent media; Alberto Federico Ravell is “Caracas Nine” dissident #3

01/15/2008
Enshrining Mob Rule in Bolivia: Communal Justice and the New Constitution

01/07/2008

HRF Researcher Shot in Venezuela

12/25/2007
HRF’s First Prisoner of Conscience Free on Conditional Release; Francisco Usón Joined His Family on Christmas Eve

11/30/2007
New Video on Human Rights Violations in Venezuela; Thor Halvorssen on Fox Business Tonight with David Asman

11/29/2007

HRF Seeks Protection for Leader of Student Movement in Venezuela; Yon Goicoechea is “Caracas Nine” Dissident #2

10/25/2007
Artists Reunite for Human Rights in Latin America; Concert Tour in New York to Stress the Plight of the Caracas Nine

06/29/2007
Dominican Government Calls for Censorship of HRF Film on Human Trafficking

06/06/2007
NEW YORK POST: Hugo & the Media Kings

05/30/2007
Protests in Venezuela; One Hundred High School Students Arrested; Attacks on Media Continue; Bolivian and Ecuadorian Governments Announce Media Crackdown

05/25/2007
RCTV Shutdown Condemned By European Parliament; Senators Clinton, Obama, Kennedy

05/23/2007
HRF to OAS’s Insulza: “Do Your Job”

05/16/2007
Cuban-Venezuelan Actress and Singer María Conchita Alonso Defends RCTV's Right to Dissent; Joins HRF Campaign for Prisoners of Conscience

05/07/2007
Human Rights Foundation Condemns Venezuelan Government Shutdown of TV Station;
Launches Website and Brings Case to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

03/05/2007
HRF Chairman Writes About Castro's Gulag in Today's Wall Street Journal

02/28/2007
Dissident Expelled from Bolivia Granted Asylum in Norway; Norway becomes a safe haven for Amauris Samartino after illegal detention

02/02/2007
HRF Victory: Expelling Dissident from Bolivia Ruled Unconstitutional; Bolivian Court Admits Human Rights Foundation Brief and Decides for Freedom

01/10/2007
Amauris Samartino: Bolivian Resident Expelled for Criticizing Fidel Castro and Evo Morales

12/12/2006
Francisco Usón: Venezuelan Convicted for Televised Remark, Nearly Killed