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The 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum has come to a close, but the impact of our gathering continues to resonate.
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@HRF’s annual global conference series brings together human rights defenders worldwide to speak truth to power. 🗓️ May 31-June 2, 2027
- During the Freedom Tech track at the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum, Reyna Chicas, Bitcoin training coordinator at My First Bitcoin, explains why reaching people who have never heard of Bitcoin requires starting from scratch — with the history of money, how fiat works, and what
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Does China's leadership change the case for engagement? @joannachiu, Managing Partner of @nuoraglobal, and @isaacstonefish, CEO and Founder of Strategy Risks, debate whether cooperation should depend on who's in power and whether a conflict over Taiwan would change where the
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Former @OsloFF speaker, Cuban professor Enrique Del Risco shares his experience at the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum for independent Cuban outlet @eltoquecom. His takeaway: the bad guys might be gaining ground, but the good ones show no sign of giving up. - Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) repostedAt the 2026 @OsloFF, HRF’s Impact Litigation team hosted an interactive booth highlighting our work providing pro bono international legal representation to dissidents arbitrarily detained by dictatorships.
- For the first time in 18 years, Mohammad Al Abdallah returned to Syria and embraced his father outside the walls of Sednaya prison. At the Oslo Freedom Forum, he reflected on life under the Assad regime and its collapse, the generations shaped by imprisonment and exile, and the
00:00 - Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) repostedShould journalists accept restrictions to report from inside China or does doing so compromise their independence? @joannachiu (@nuoraglobal) and @isaacstonefish debate the tradeoffs between access and ethics, and whether reporting from within China requires compromises that are
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1/ Never thought I’d be on the world's biggest human rights stage. Delivering the first keynote for this year’s @OsloFF was a bit nerve-wracking. I chose to share intimate memories—a fragment of truth that is also a piece of Hong Kong’s collective history.
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The ordeal of unjust detention does not end when a returnee comes home. SPEHA’s Dr. Young Hoang spoke at the @OsloFF Conference about the importance of post-return support for those unjustly detained and how the U.S. helps returnees rebuild their lives after detention.
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My friend @isaacstonefish gave me my first @ForeignPolicy byline, blazed a trail from journalism into consulting, and has shared advice along the way. So it's wildly un-Confucian of me to celebrate that I won the audience vote at our debate @OsloFF. What I was proud of, though, - Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) repostedIs It Ethical to Cooperate with Chinese State Institutions to Secure Incremental Change? As democratic governments, universities, and civil society organizations around the world consider how to work with Chinese state institutions, this debate explores a challenging question:
