Taking on the World's Repressive Regimes: The Ford Foundation's International Human Rights Policies and Practices »

William Korey is a human rights scholar who has taught at various schools, including Columbia University, Brooklyn College, and Yeshiva University.

This is a study of the Ford Foundation's support and of funding of human rights projects and NGOs, illuminating its extraordinary role in helping undermine and destroy major repressive authoritarian and totalitarian regimes during the latter part of the twentieth century.

Origins and Background
• Chile: A Breakthrough in Foundation Policy
• Foundation Policy Across Latin America
• The "Human Rights Lobby"
• U.S. Helsinki Watch: The Foundation in East Europe
• The "Foundation for European Intellectual Cooperation"
• Taking Risks on South Africa
• The Rejection of "Fatalism"
• An Historic Role
• Women's Rights: "A Position of Empowerment"
• From Nairobi to Beijing
• A Stumble, and Strides Forward