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The fundraising event is organized by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, in cooperation with the Freda Utley Foundation, and will take place on November 30 from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. in the First Amendment Lounge of the National Press Club (14^th and F Streets, NW).

(originally published June 17, 2004)

"Truth and love must prevail over lies and hate"

When the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia begin opening statements on Monday [Nov. 21, 2011] , it will mark the first time the international community has held senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge to account for the system of torture, starvation, forced marriage and execution.

One man's heroic determination to fight tyranny with truth

This year, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation honored Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL18) and Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former President of Latvia.

Anders Hjemdahl of the Stockholm-based Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism talked to RFE/RL correspondent Charles Recknagel about why Western Europeans seem to know so little about the communist past.

The presidential proclamations commemorating National Captive Nations Week-the third week of every July-are a revealing reflection of U.S. foreign policy over the past 50 years and America's sometimes hard, sometimes soft attitude toward those who suppress the basic human rights of peoples and nations.

These men will be taking a cycling tour of over 3,000 miles (10,000 Chinese Miles) across the US. This tour is called "Cycling Tour For Human Rights of China". They will start in New York City, New York and end in San Francisco, California.

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (May 4, 2011) - Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez was denied permission by the Cuban government to travel to Denmark and collect the CEPOS Freedom Award-a $50,000 prize that she was granted by the independent Danish think tank, CEPOS-at the official award ceremony tomorrow night in Copenhagen. Sánchez, author of the world-renowned blog Generación Y and a speaker at the 2010 Oslo Freedom Forum, was nominated for the award by HRF president Thor Halvorssen, who will give the keynote speech at the ceremony in Copenhagen.

Liu Xianbin, a noted Chinese political activist from Sichuan Province, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on March 25, 2011.

Jan Karski [nee Jan Kozielewski in Lódz, Poland] is known to history as the man who tried to stop the Holocaust.

On his recent trip to Estonia, VOCMF Chairman Dr. Lee Edwards met with Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves.

At least 13 people [were] killed and more than 140 injured by the Soviet military in the capital of Lithuania as Moscow continue[d] its crackdown on the Baltic republic and its drive for independence.

Vaclav Havel was a great champion of liberty whose rhetorical blows shattered the Iron Curtain and brought about the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe.