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Rights Reporter Foundation
The Rights Reporter Foundation (RRF) is a human rights organisation based in Budapest, Hungary. It was founded in 2014 by Hungarian human rights activists to improve the human rights situation of vulnerable populations, such as drug users and sex workers, through education and advocacy. The RRF’s mission is to promote policies that are created as a result of the meaningful involvement of most affected communities, are evidence-informed and based on human rights. It attempts to achieve this through documenting human rights abuses, educating the public about alternatives, consulting with decision makers and giving voice to communities.

One of RRF’s principal areas of work are producing innovative advocacy and educational tools such as online blogs, videos and other multimedia contents. Its drug policy website, Drugreporter, created in 2004, contains hundreds of articles and online videos. RRF has also been training activists and students to use the media and produce videos in a strategic way. It organised several coordinated campaigns, such as Dare to Act and Room for Change, to influence decision makers and opinion leaders in national, regional and international level. The senior staff members of RRF, Peter Sarosi and Istvan Gabor Takacs, were awarded with the International Rolleston Award for their outstanding performance in harm reduction advocacy by Harm Reduction International in 2017.

RRF coordinates a global network of videographers who produce movies about drug policy and harm reduction. It hosts a video blog, DUNEws, on its Drugreporter website. This blog is edited by Russian speaking video makers and activists, Igor Kouzmenko and Alexey Kurmanaevsky, featuring movies about harm reduction in Eastern-Europe and Central-Asia. RRF's work is mainly supported by international donors, such as the Open Society Foundations and the European Commission. The work and financial operation of RRF is overseen by a five members board (kuratórium) and an international advisory board, with members who distinguished themselves in the field of drug policy and/or human rights advocacy.

In 2017 RRF produced a feature long documentary, A Day in the Life: The World of People Who Use Drugs, about 8 individuals in 7 cities of the world, contrasting different experiences and political realities vulnerable people have to face under different circumstances. The movie was produced in cooperation with video activists from 7 countries.