Hanging Out with Human Rights Heroes at the Oslo Freedom Forum The Oslo Freedom Forum is an important event to help encourage, teach and publicize human rights activists from around the world. These kinds of connections are necessary to continue the peaceful struggle against oppression that so many people are engaged in.
Autocrats step in as the west’s money runs out The Oslo Freedom Forum is a Davos for revolutionaries. Activists who have overthrown dictatorships meet activists who want to overthrow dictatorships. Even if they need translators, everyone speaks the same language. They agree on the radical potential of new technologies.
A crowded field The Oslo shindig — launched in 2009, and on its way to becoming a human-rights equivalent of the Davos economic forum.