By WLC Leadership Council member, Bota Jardemalie. You may know Paul Rusesabagina as the man who inspired Hotel Rwanda. He is also the father of Carine Kanimba, my fellow member of the World Liberty Congress. Since 2005, the Rwandan government…
The World Liberty Congress stands in solidarity with Gemma Jones, a Spanish and Equatorial Guinean lawyer and human rights defender, following credible allegations of surveillance, defamation, intimidation, and threats linked to agents of the Equatorial Guinean regime. According to available…
Why freedom can be lost without a single shot, and what the free world owes those who refuse to surrender it. By Félix Maradiaga, President of the WLC Jimmy Lai, a publisher and a devout practising Catholic, has spent more…
Across Sub-Saharan Africa, the space available to pro-democracy activists is narrowing. Governments are coordinating their suppression of dissent with growing sophistication. Civic society organizations are being suspended. Opposition candidates are surveilled, threatened, and in some cases imprisoned. Legislation is being…
The World Liberty Congress (WLC) strongly condemns the escalating political violence and civil unrest currently threatening democratic stability in Bolivia. As a global coalition dedicated to defending freedom and resisting authoritarian overreach, we view the violent clashes, deployment of explosives,…
By Diing Deng Mu, Former WLC Leadership Council member By all indications, the international community is preparing to manage South Sudan’s collapse rather than prevent it. After years of failed peace agreements, corruption scandals, and political stagnation, many foreign governments…
The World Liberty Congress (WLC) expresses its serious concern regarding the ongoing targeted harassment, defamation, and coordinated online attacks against Nilofar Ayoubi, Afghan women’s rights advocate, democracy activist, and member of the WLC Leadership Council. For months, Nilofar Ayoubi has…
By Clara Cheung, Former Hong Kong District Councilor, The Convenor of The UK-EU committee of The Assembly of Citizens’ Representatives, Hong Kong, and a member of World Liberty Congress. For diaspora activists dedicated to freedom and democracy, the fight against…
Source: The Common Sense, By Tendai Biti, WLC Leadership Council member. While the world is preoccupied with the conflict in Iran, Zimbabwe is turning increasingly authoritarian, if that is possible to imagine. In southern and eastern Africa, incumbency is trumping,…