Repression abroad does not stay abroad. A freedom-focused foreign policy can protect fundamental rights and make Americans more secure.

HRHF and several INGOs wrote to member and observer states of the UN Human Rights Council urging their support for the renewal of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights ...

Authoritarian states increasingly seek to maintain control over diasporas and exiles. The range of tactics is broad, and the consequences for affected communities are severe. “Transnational repression ...

David L. Fogel is a nonresident senior fellow in the Forward Defense practice of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a member of Forward Defense’s Gray Zone Task ...

Tom Kahn is a distinguished faculty fellow at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University and a senior consultant at the Cormac Group, a Washington, DC public affairs ...

Colleen Scribner (she/her) is Senior Program Manager for Asia Programs, managing human rights and democratic resilience programming across the region. She is also a 2023-2024 Penn Kemble Democracy ...