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October 15, 2020 | Tzvi Kahn |

UN Elects Worst Violators to Human Rights Council

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday overwhelmingly elected China, Cuba, Gabon, Pakistan, Russia, and Uzbekistan as members of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The election underscores...

September 21, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Fear grows for jailed Qatari royal amid health decline as wife pleads at UN for release

His wife is waging David vs. Goliath struggle against wealthy Qatari monarch

June 17, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Defending America’s defenders

Beginning to stand up to a hostile international organization

March 25, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Globalists gone wild

A transnational prosecutor puts American soldiers in her crosshairs

November 29, 2018 | Jonathan Schanzer |

I’m a Wonk at a Think Tank. Turkish Media Say I’m an International Man of Mystery.

It's amazing what you learn about yourself when you start publishing about Turkey's links to terrorist groups.

March 29, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn |

UN Extends Mandate of Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran

The UN Human Rights Council last week passed a resolution extending the mandate of the special ra...

March 14, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, Trevor Logan FDD Policy Brief

Turkey Abused Western Dual-Use Technology to Inject Spyware

Turkey’s leading internet service provider, Turk Telekom, in which the Turkish government...

July 19, 2017 |

Saudi Arabia’s Troubling Educational Curriculum

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July 11, 2017 | Tzvi Kahn |

The Ideological Battleground of Iran’s Internet

A leading advocate for internet freedom recently began his f...

September 28, 2015 | Claudia Rosett |

The U.N.’s Parade of Dictators

Founded in 1945 to promote global peace, human dignity and freedom, the United Nations is celebrating its 70th anniversary — with a parade of dictators. The ceremonies will peak on Monday,...

September 18, 2015 | |

Isolation at the U.N.

In defending the Iran nuclear deal to Congress, President Obama and his staff argued repeatedly that rejection would leave America in dire isolation at the United Nations. Obama can now relax. Ha...

December 18, 2014 | Claudia Rosett |

Historic Day for Washington, Havana…and Pyongyang’s Hackers

On a day when hackers working for North Korea managed to shut down the release of an American movie, on American soil, by threatening terrorist attacks on American theaters, one might have suppos...

September 12, 2014 | David Andrew Weinberg |

The Gulf Cooperation Council: Deepening Rifts and Emerging Challenges

Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for the opportunity to discuss tensions in...

August 22, 2014 | |

The U.N.’s Grotesque Gaza Inquiry

Bias against Israel is the most glaring problem with the new Gaza inquiry that the United Nations Human Rights Council launched last month. The council has appointed as its chief inv...

May 21, 2014 | |

The Gulf Cooperation Council

Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for the opportunity to discuss tensions in...

May 14, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Hooray for Hollywood

Jay Leno and Ellen DeGeneres brought a smile to my lips last week – and not by saying anything funny. They were out in the not-so-fresh air on Sunset Boulevard demonstrating agains...

March 26, 2014 |

Saudi Arabia is a Human Rights Nightmare

When President Barack Obama touches down in Saudi Arabia this week, he will be stepping into a human rights nightmare. Freedom House considers Saudi Arabia one of the world’s worst countrie...

March 4, 2014 | Sheryl Saperia

The Human Rights Situation in Iran

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to appear before you today and to address a subject that, in my view, deserves more attention than it currently receives in the international debate over I...

January 27, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Obama’s Syria Debacle

Secretary of State John Kerry  helped to jump-start the Geneva II international conference to end the civil...

December 12, 2013 | Clifford D. May

The Disinformation Age

Walter Cronkite, the great CBS anchorman from 1962 to 1981, was called “the most trusted man in America” — and polling supported that claim. He’d conclude his CBS Even...