Trading Newsrooms for Human Rights @humanrightsfdn
Trading Newsrooms for Human Rights  @humanrightsfdn
Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Casey Michel, head of Combating Kleptocracy, and Elisha Maldonado, director of communications, welcome you to the Human Rights Foundation's revamped podcast, Dissidents and Dictators. The two co-hosts discuss the Foundation's vision, which focuses solely on authoritarian regimes, and why they traded newsrooms for the human rights mission field.

Chapters:
00:00:00 - The New and Improved Dissidents and Dictators Podcast
00:02:35 - Dirty Money and Dictatorships
00:04:54 - One Direction reunion concerts and their impact on activism
00:07:27 - Destabilizing Dictatorships
00:10:08 - The Importance of Fighting Against Dictatorship
00:12:40 - Freedom in Kazakhstan
00:15:02 - Celebrating justice in Kazakhstan
00:17:36 - The Importance of Perspective
00:20:12 - The Fight for Democracy
00:22:38 - Risks in Authoritarian Regimes


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