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  The 2022 World Cup gave us one of the greatest finals in football history. It also exposed the darker side of the tournament: corruption, repression, and thousands of migrant worker deaths.
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  Defending human rights is not a crime. We stand with Anacleto and all prisoners of conscience in Equatorial Guinea. Learn more about his case :
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  Following a favorable opinion from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, HRF urges the regime to immediately release Anacleto, provide compensation and other reparations for his arbitrary detention, and investigate his allegations of torture to hold the perpetrators
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  HRF International Associate Caitlin Triplett recently spoke with Centro para la Apertura y el Desarrollo de América Latina (
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  As a new US indictment names Raúl Castro and five other Cuban officials, González examines why the case still matters and why preserving the historical record is essential for justice and accountability. Read the full op-ed:
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  HRF’s Chief Advocacy Officer Roberto González authored an op-ed in
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  reflecting on the 30th anniversary of the 1996 shoot-down of two unarmed Brothers to the Rescue planes by Cuban MiGs over international waters, killing four humanitarian volunteers.
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  The measure was initially introduced in Rwanda’s RPF-controlled parliament in March by Minister of Local Government Minister Dominique Habimana. This follows a well-worn pattern of power consolidation through legal manipulation. In 2015, the regime orchestrated a constitutional
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  Oda Gasinzigwa, a ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) party member who was appointed by Kagame’s cabinet in 2023 as Chair of Rwanda’s National Election Commission (NEC), declared on June 8 that the change is designed to allow the composition of electoral colleges to be modified
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  The new law gazetted on May 25 transfers the governance of electoral colleges for district councillors and the capital Kigali local government leaders from the statutory electoral legislation to the sole authority of the President. With this power, Kagame alone has the authority
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  HRF condemns Rwanda’s new elections law which hands dictator Paul Kagame sweeping control over the composition of electoral colleges for local government elections. It is the latest legal manipulation to tighten Kagame’s control over local government.
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  HRF urges the international community to see these summits for what they are: authoritarian coordination that strengthens regimes, not people. Any discussion of regional security must keep human rights at the center.
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  For North Korea's Kim, this is not about peace or prosperity. It is about securing economic aid, diplomatic cover, and recognition for a nuclear dictatorship that survives through repression at home and aggression abroad.