The Daily Caller

The Daily Caller

Dictators score major victory at UN Human Rights Council

| Thor Halvorssen

Seven countries with appalling human rights records were just elected to the UN body charged with promoting human rights.

Open letter to Urban Outfitters: Nothing 'cool' about murderer Che Guevara

| Thor Halvorssen

The clothing chain sells T-shirts emblazoned with the communist thug’s image.

How dictators triumph: With a little help from their friends

| Thor Halvorssen & Tutu Alicante

American PR firms and celebrities are propping up Equatorial Guinea’s brutal dictator, Teodoro Obiang Nguema.

Cuba, Russia and China shut down UN human rights discussion about Venezuela

| Thor Halvorssen

At the UN Human Rights Council, criticizing human rights abusers is frowned upon.

An open letter to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore

| Thor Halvorssen

Why Singapore’s government should allow opposition leader Chee Soon Juan to attend the 2012 Oslo Freedom Forum.

Amidst the carnage, Syria finds a loyal ally in Hugo Chavez

| Thor Halvorssen & Alex Gladstein

The Venezuelan strongman is helping prop up Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Stopping genocide: the Responsibility to Protect

| Thor Halvorssen

Should democratic governments step into the sovereign affairs of other states in order to prevent genocide or mass killings?

Uganda: A brutal reality obscured

| Thor Halvorssen

Uganda’s global PR machinery whitewashes a thuggish president’s record.