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Covers:  human rights, freedom, individual rights, democracy, liberty
Doesn't Cover: animal rights, social and economic rights, environmental rights
Int’l Attorney. Banned from Russia 4 life 4 anti-Putin work. Words: NYT, WashPo, Econ., Forbes, othrs. Now leading @PizanoStrat. Formerly Dir. @McCainInstitute.

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Pedro Pizano’s Biography

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Pedro Pizano holds the position of Strategy and Development Associate at the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), and Global Media Liaison for HRF’s annual conference, the Oslo Freedom Forum. HRF is a nonprofit nonpartisan organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with an expertise in the Americas. Its flagship annual event, the Oslo Freedom Forum, has been hailed by The Economist as a “spectacular human-rights festival... on its way to becoming a human-rights equivalent of the D…

Pedro Pizano’s Journalist Portfolio

Nightmare Squared - By Pedro Pizano and Jamie Leigh Hancock

Nightmare Squared - By Pedro Pizano and Jamie Leigh Hancock

On October 22, Fabián Nsue set out to do one of the things that lawyers often do: Pay a visit to one of his c…

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Where Driving Is a Crime and Speaking About It Leads to Death Threats

Where Driving Is a Crime and Speaking About It Leads to Death Threats

Looking over the long list of women's rights abuses still prevalent in the world today, the prohibition again…

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Crooners and Their Dictators

Crooners and Their Dictators

Dictators have a long and storied love affair with the arts. The Medici family, who ruthlessly ruled Florence…

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Russia's Pussy Riot Guilty Verdict Unmasks Putin's Dictatorship - Forbes

Russia's Pussy Riot Guilty Verdict Unmasks Putin's Dictatorship - Forbes

A fiction writer from the Golden Age of Russian literature could never have dreamed up a scenario as absurd a…

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Monsters Rule in Pakistan; Rape is Public Policy

Monsters Rule in Pakistan; Rape is Public Policy

They raped her. Fourteen men raped Mukhtar Mai. And this was not a criminal act; the village council authoriz…

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Articles

The U.S. finally has a tool to deter hostage-taking

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By Pedro Pizano, Sarah Moriarty
| Washington Post Opinions Verified
The U.S. finally has a tool to deter hostage-taking (washingtonpost.com) The U.S. finally has a tool to deter hostage-taking By Pedro Pizano; Sarah Moriarty 2026020411460200 In September 2025, the Trump administration signed an executive order aimed at deterring foreign governments from wrongfully detaining Americans abroad, giving Washington the authority to designate and impose consequences on regimes that arrest Americans for political leverage.
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China must release Pastor Ezra Jin

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By Alexis Mrachek, Pedro Pizano
| Washington Examiner Verified
Ezra Jin, founder and pastor of Zion Church, and more than 30 of his associates and church staff were detained in China on Oct. 10. They have been charged but not yet sentenced for their alleged crimes. Time is running out before sentencing occurs, after which it will be much harder to obtain their releases. Zion Church is a large underground house church with congregations in 40 cities across China.
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Why Vladimir Kara-Murza Gave Up His Freedom

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By Pedro Pizano, Vladimir Putin’s regime, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Vladimir Milov
| journalofdemocracy.org
The Russian dissident journalist and activist knew if he returned to Russia he would be imprisoned or worse. But he was plagued by one question that compelled him to go. By Pedro Pizano April 2024 The day before dissident journalist and activist Vladimir Kara-Murza returned to Russia, his friends pleaded with him not to embark. After all, he had been a legal permanent resident of the United States for ten years, held a British passport, and had three American-born children.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Feetin2Worlds and/or Starting my own radio station and cultural magazine in college

Have you ever used a typewriter?

no

How is social media changing news?

It isn't