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Human Rights Foundation

May 19, 2023

For similar organizations, see Human Rights Foundation (New Zealand) and Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a non-profit organization that focuses on promoting and protecting human rights globally, with an emphasis on closed societies.[1] HRF organizes the Oslo Freedom Forum. The Human Rights Foundation was founded in 2005 by Thor Halvorssen Mendoza, a Venezuelan film producer and human rights advocate. The current chairman is Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, and Javier El-Hage is the current chief legal officer. The foundation's head office is in the Empire State Building in New York City.[1][2][3]

Human Rights Foundation
Founded2005; 18 years ago (2005)
FounderThor Halvorssen Mendoza
Location
Area served
Global
Chairman
Garry Kasparov
Websitehrf.org

Organization

HRF's website states that it adheres to the definition of human rights as put forth in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1976), believing that all individuals are entitled to the right to speak freely, the right to worship in the manner of their choice, the right to freely associate with those of like mind, the right to acquire and dispose of property, the right to leave and enter their country, the right to equal treatment and due process under law, the right to be able to participate in the government of their country, freedom from arbitrary detainment or exile, freedom from slavery and torture, and freedom from interference and coercion in matters of conscience.[citation needed]

According to the New York Times, HRF "has helped smuggle activists out of repressive countries, provided many with broader exposure and connected others with prominent financiers and technologists".[4]

The Council is currently chaired by chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov.[2]

Oslo Freedom Forum

The Oslo Freedom Forum is an annual HRF conference in Oslo, Norway, supported by several grant-giving institutions in Scandinavia and the United States through HRF. Donors include Fritt Ord, the City of Oslo, the Thiel Foundation, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amnesty International Norway, Plan Norway, the Brin Wojcicki Foundation, Human Rights House Foundation, and Ny Tid.[5] The forum is funded in part by the municipality of Oslo, the Norwegian Ministry of affairs, and the Fritt ord Foundation.[6]

In different countries

Belarus

During the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights documented more than 450 cases of torture and ill-treatment of detainees, as well as reports of sexual abuse and rape.[7] At the end of 2020, the Viasna Human Rights Centre documented 1,000 testimonies of torture victims.[8] HRF sent letters to fifteen officers of law enforcement agencies of Belarus and officials of the government of the country, in which it called on them to voluntarily resign and warned them of responsibility for the crimes against humanity.[9][10]

China

In 2011, HRF announced its membership in the International Committee to Support Liu Xiaobo. The committee consists of a "coalition composed of six Nobel Peace Prize winners and 15 non-governmental organizations," formed to defend, and advocate for the release of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia, both detained in China.[11]

Cuba

In September 2012, HRF founder Thor Halvorssen wrote an open letter to Ted Marlow, CEO of Urban Outfitters, urging him to reconsider Urban Outfitters' sale of Che Guevara emblazoned merchandise "for the sake of the thousands who perished in the Cuban revolution, and for the sake of the 11 million Cubans who still endure a totalitarian system".[12][13] It was reported that in October 2012 Urban Outfitters removed the merchandise in response to the outrage.[14]

In May 2013, HRF awarded the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent to The Ladies in White (Las Damas de Blanco). In 2015, the award was given to Danilo Maldonado, El Sexto,[15] a Cuban graffiti artist and activist who was arrested in December 2014 for trying to stage a performance art piece in the center of Havana.[16]

In July 2014, HRF submitted a petition to the UN Special Rapporteur requesting an appeal to the government of Cuba on the assault of Roberto de Jesus Guerra Perez, a Cuban journalist and founder of Centro de Informacion Hablemos Press.[17]

Dominican Republic

The Sugar Babies: The Plight of the Children of Agricultural Workers in the Sugar Industry (2007) is a feature-length documentary film about exploitation in the sugar plantations of the Dominican Republic. The film, narrated by Edwidge Danticat, suggests that the descendants of African slaves, brought over from Haiti, live and work in unfair conditions akin to "modern day slavery". HRF produced and provided the funding for the documentary film The Sugar Babies. It was first screened at Florida International University on June 27, 2007. The documentary about human trafficking of Haitians in the Dominican Republic drew protest from the Fanjul brothers, one of the largest beneficiaries of the human trafficking depicted in the film.[18]

Ecuador

In March 2008 HRF wrote to Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa asking for the release of the imprisoned governor of the province of Orellana, Guadalupe Llori, implying that the charges against her were politically motivated.[19] Later in March Amnesty International declared that governor Llori may be a prisoner of conscience and a political prisoner[20] According to HRF Llori was imprisoned on trumped up terrorism charges by the government.[21] She was sent to El Inca prison where she remained for about ten months. HRF filed a communication with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, pleading that it activate its urgent action procedure and send an appeal to the government of Ecuador for the immediate release of political prisoner Guadalupe Llori.[22] HRF visited her in prison.[23] She was eventually freed after an intense international campaign and credited HRF with her release.[24]

Equatorial Guinea

In August 2012, HRF called for former US President Bill Clinton, who according to tax documents is the "honorary chairman" of the Leon H Sullivan Foundation, to revoke the foundation's decision to allow Teodoro Obiang to host their Sullivan Summit. Of Clinton, Halvorssen said "Mr Clinton's wife is US Secretary of State...It seems perplexing that he would allow himself to be so closely associated with a vile dictator."[25]

Haiti

Following the 2010 earthquake that took place in Haiti, HRF began a fundraising campaign for a food program devoted to the children of the St Clare's community of Port-au-Prince. The program was started in 2000 by American author Margaret Trost and by Gérard Jean-Juste, a former Amnesty International prisoner of conscience who served as the priest of the St. Clare's community. The campaign aimed at providing 160,000 meals for children.[26][27][28]

North Korea

Further information: Balloon campaigns in Korea

In 2015, the Human Rights Foundation has helped to organize and bankroll a balloon drop of 10,000 copies of an edited version of the movie The Interview over North Korea. Previously, the HRF "has financed balloon drops of pamphlets, TV shows, books and movies over a course of several years, though nothing as high-profile and crudely belittling to Kim Jong Un as is The Interview."[29]

According to Wired, HRF's North Korea program is "an initiative that unites activists in Korea with technologists and campaigners in the West."[30] In 2014, HRF hosted the world's first hackathon for North Korea at Code for America's offices in San Francisco. According to the Wall Street Journal, "about 100 hackers, coders and engineers gathered in San Francisco to brainstorm ways to pierce the information divide that separates North Korea from the rest of the world."[31]

In 2016, the HRF smuggled USB flash drives with films and television shows to expose North Koreans to popular culture from overseas.[32][33] The flash drives were called "flash drives for freedom".[32]

Swaziland

In 2014 HRF invited Swazi human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko to speak at the Oslo Freedom Forum. He was later jailed for "defaming the King's justice system".[34]

After a sustained media international campaign, Maseko was eventually freed.[35]

Conferences and events

Hack North Korea

In 2014, HRF hosted Hack North Korea, a gathering of Bay Area technologists, investors, engineers, designers, activists and North Korean defectors that aimed to spark new ideas for getting information into North Korea.[36][37][38]

 
College Freedom Forum 2017 in Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala City

College Freedom Forum

The College Freedom Forum (CFF) is a series of one-day events designed to educate and enlighten students about individual rights and democracy around the world. Each CFF features presentations and an opportunity for students and audience members to interact with the speakers one-on-one and during a question and answer session.[39]

U.N. Human Rights Council Member Elections

In November 2012 and 2013, HRF co-hosted an event at the United Nations headquarters in New York with the Geneva-based organization UN Watch. The events focused on raising awareness of the election of competitive authoritarian and fully authoritarian regimes to the UN Human Rights Council. HRF brought human rights activists from different countries to testify about the abuses committed by their respective governments.[40]

Oslo Freedom Forum

In May 2009, with support from the city of Oslo and the John Templeton Foundation, HRF organized the Oslo Freedom Forum. During the conference, democracy and human rights activist toell their stories and express their views about human rights in the world.[41][42] The forum holds an annual event in Oslo, along with satellite events organized across the world.[43]

San Francisco Freedom Forum

In October 2012 the Human Rights Foundation hosted the first San Francisco Freedom Forum, which was described as "a unique convergence of-pro freedom voices." The event was supported by Peter Thiel's charitable foundation, Sergey Brin's foundation, and Anne Wojcicki. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, on her first trip to the United States since 1971, was presented with a Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent. Suu Kyi discussed the motives behind human rights violations and said that they cannot be addressed unless "we know what can be done to prevent" people from dehumanizing one another.[44] The Forum brought attention to a number of human rights issues, and other attendees included Manal al-Sharif, a Saudi woman who challenged her country's ban on women driving by coordinating a "Women2Drive" protest via YouTube, and the spokesman of jailed Russian punk band Pussy Riot.[45][46][47]

Sime MIA

In November 2014, the Oslo Freedom Forum curated a session at the Sime MIA conference in Miami. The conference featured HRF president Thor Halvorssen, Jordanian cartoonist Suleiman Bakhit, and North Korean refugee Yeonmi Park.[48]

Center for Law and Democracy

Honduran Democracy Crisis

Following the 2009 Honduran coup d'état that deposed President Manuel Zelaya, HRF requested all member states of the Organization of American States to adhere to the Inter-American Democratic Charter. HRF also advocated for the suspension of the government that ousted President Zelaya.[49] HRF chairman Armando Valladares resigned on July 2, 2009, in response to the HRF position on the Honduran coup.[50] The new chairman of the organization was poet and former Czech president Václav Havel.

In November 2009, HRF published a report called "The facts and the law behind the democratic crisis in Honduras 2009",[51][non-primary source needed] in which it concluded that the Organization of American States had acted correctly in activating the Inter-American Democratic Charter, and incorrectly in its diplomatic actions to revert the military coup. The report also concludes that the OAS behaved as an agent of Zelaya prior to the coup d'état and that Zelaya had been eroding Honduran democracy.[52]

Public perception

After the HRF criticized the Bolivian government and specifically government minister Sacha Sergio Llorenti Soliz for alleged human rights violations in a public letter, the minister referred to HRF as "right wing".[53][non-primary source needed] In the same month, eighteen Latin America scholars signed an opinion piece in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten criticizing the Oslo Freedom Forum for focusing criticism only on Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, three countries with leftist governments. The scholars praised the group for putting "the spotlight on key global issues", but also stated that Cuban human rights activist Armando Valladares had defended the 2009 Honduran coup d'état while speaking at the forum.[54]

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External links

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For similar organizations see Human Rights Foundation New Zealand and Human Rights Foundation of Turkey The Human Rights Foundation HRF is a non profit organization that focuses on promoting and protecting human rights globally with an emphasis on closed societies 1 HRF organizes the Oslo Freedom Forum The Human Rights Foundation was founded in 2005 by Thor Halvorssen Mendoza a Venezuelan film producer and human rights advocate The current chairman is Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov and Javier El Hage is the current chief legal officer The foundation s head office is in the Empire State Building in New York City 1 2 3 Human Rights FoundationFounded2005 18 years ago 2005 FounderThor Halvorssen MendozaLocationEmpire State BuildingNew York CityArea servedGlobalChairmanGarry KasparovWebsitehrf org Contents 1 Organization 2 Oslo Freedom Forum 3 In different countries 3 1 Belarus 3 2 China 3 3 Cuba 3 4 Dominican Republic 3 5 Ecuador 3 6 Equatorial Guinea 3 7 Haiti 3 8 North Korea 3 9 Swaziland 4 Conferences and events 4 1 Hack North Korea 4 2 College Freedom Forum 4 3 U N Human Rights Council Member Elections 4 4 Oslo Freedom Forum 4 5 San Francisco Freedom Forum 4 6 Sime MIA 5 Center for Law and Democracy 5 1 Honduran Democracy Crisis 6 Public perception 7 References 8 External linksOrganization EditHRF s website states that it adheres to the definition of human rights as put forth in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1976 believing that all individuals are entitled to the right to speak freely the right to worship in the manner of their choice the right to freely associate with those of like mind the right to acquire and dispose of property the right to leave and enter their country the right to equal treatment and due process under law the right to be able to participate in the government of their country freedom from arbitrary detainment or exile freedom from slavery and torture and freedom from interference and coercion in matters of conscience citation needed According to the New York Times HRF has helped smuggle activists out of repressive countries provided many with broader exposure and connected others with prominent financiers and technologists 4 The Council is currently chaired by chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov 2 Oslo Freedom Forum EditThe Oslo Freedom Forum is an annual HRF conference in Oslo Norway supported by several grant giving institutions in Scandinavia and the United States through HRF Donors include Fritt Ord the City of Oslo the Thiel Foundation the Norwegian Helsinki Committee the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Amnesty International Norway Plan Norway the Brin Wojcicki Foundation Human Rights House Foundation and Ny Tid 5 The forum is funded in part by the municipality of Oslo the Norwegian Ministry of affairs and the Fritt ord Foundation 6 In different countries EditBelarus Edit During the 2020 2021 Belarusian protests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights documented more than 450 cases of torture and ill treatment of detainees as well as reports of sexual abuse and rape 7 At the end of 2020 the Viasna Human Rights Centre documented 1 000 testimonies of torture victims 8 HRF sent letters to fifteen officers of law enforcement agencies of Belarus and officials of the government of the country in which it called on them to voluntarily resign and warned them of responsibility for the crimes against humanity 9 10 China Edit In 2011 HRF announced its membership in the International Committee to Support Liu Xiaobo The committee consists of a coalition composed of six Nobel Peace Prize winners and 15 non governmental organizations formed to defend and advocate for the release of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia both detained in China 11 Cuba Edit In September 2012 HRF founder Thor Halvorssen wrote an open letter to Ted Marlow CEO of Urban Outfitters urging him to reconsider Urban Outfitters sale of Che Guevara emblazoned merchandise for the sake of the thousands who perished in the Cuban revolution and for the sake of the 11 million Cubans who still endure a totalitarian system 12 13 It was reported that in October 2012 Urban Outfitters removed the merchandise in response to the outrage 14 In May 2013 HRF awarded the Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent to The Ladies in White Las Damas de Blanco In 2015 the award was given to Danilo Maldonado El Sexto 15 a Cuban graffiti artist and activist who was arrested in December 2014 for trying to stage a performance art piece in the center of Havana 16 In July 2014 HRF submitted a petition to the UN Special Rapporteur requesting an appeal to the government of Cuba on the assault of Roberto de Jesus Guerra Perez a Cuban journalist and founder of Centro de Informacion Hablemos Press 17 Dominican Republic Edit The Sugar Babies The Plight of the Children of Agricultural Workers in the Sugar Industry 2007 is a feature length documentary film about exploitation in the sugar plantations of the Dominican Republic The film narrated by Edwidge Danticat suggests that the descendants of African slaves brought over from Haiti live and work in unfair conditions akin to modern day slavery HRF produced and provided the funding for the documentary film The Sugar Babies It was first screened at Florida International University on June 27 2007 The documentary about human trafficking of Haitians in the Dominican Republic drew protest from the Fanjul brothers one of the largest beneficiaries of the human trafficking depicted in the film 18 Ecuador Edit In March 2008 HRF wrote to Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa asking for the release of the imprisoned governor of the province of Orellana Guadalupe Llori implying that the charges against her were politically motivated 19 Later in March Amnesty International declared that governor Llori may be a prisoner of conscience and a political prisoner 20 According to HRF Llori was imprisoned on trumped up terrorism charges by the government 21 She was sent to El Inca prison where she remained for about ten months HRF filed a communication with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention pleading that it activate its urgent action procedure and send an appeal to the government of Ecuador for the immediate release of political prisoner Guadalupe Llori 22 HRF visited her in prison 23 She was eventually freed after an intense international campaign and credited HRF with her release 24 Equatorial Guinea Edit In August 2012 HRF called for former US President Bill Clinton who according to tax documents is the honorary chairman of the Leon H Sullivan Foundation to revoke the foundation s decision to allow Teodoro Obiang to host their Sullivan Summit Of Clinton Halvorssen said Mr Clinton s wife is US Secretary of State It seems perplexing that he would allow himself to be so closely associated with a vile dictator 25 Haiti Edit Following the 2010 earthquake that took place in Haiti HRF began a fundraising campaign for a food program devoted to the children of the St Clare s community of Port au Prince The program was started in 2000 by American author Margaret Trost and by Gerard Jean Juste a former Amnesty International prisoner of conscience who served as the priest of the St Clare s community The campaign aimed at providing 160 000 meals for children 26 27 28 North Korea Edit Further information Balloon campaigns in Korea In 2015 the Human Rights Foundation has helped to organize and bankroll a balloon drop of 10 000 copies of an edited version of the movie The Interview over North Korea Previously the HRF has financed balloon drops of pamphlets TV shows books and movies over a course of several years though nothing as high profile and crudely belittling to Kim Jong Un as is The Interview 29 According to Wired HRF s North Korea program is an initiative that unites activists in Korea with technologists and campaigners in the West 30 In 2014 HRF hosted the world s first hackathon for North Korea at Code for America s offices in San Francisco According to the Wall Street Journal about 100 hackers coders and engineers gathered in San Francisco to brainstorm ways to pierce the information divide that separates North Korea from the rest of the world 31 In 2016 the HRF smuggled USB flash drives with films and television shows to expose North Koreans to popular culture from overseas 32 33 The flash drives were called flash drives for freedom 32 Swaziland Edit In 2014 HRF invited Swazi human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko to speak at the Oslo Freedom Forum He was later jailed for defaming the King s justice system 34 After a sustained media international campaign Maseko was eventually freed 35 Conferences and events EditHack North Korea Edit In 2014 HRF hosted Hack North Korea a gathering of Bay Area technologists investors engineers designers activists and North Korean defectors that aimed to spark new ideas for getting information into North Korea 36 37 38 College Freedom Forum 2017 in Universidad Francisco Marroquin Guatemala City College Freedom Forum Edit The College Freedom Forum CFF is a series of one day events designed to educate and enlighten students about individual rights and democracy around the world Each CFF features presentations and an opportunity for students and audience members to interact with the speakers one on one and during a question and answer session 39 U N Human Rights Council Member Elections Edit In November 2012 and 2013 HRF co hosted an event at the United Nations headquarters in New York with the Geneva based organization UN Watch The events focused on raising awareness of the election of competitive authoritarian and fully authoritarian regimes to the UN Human Rights Council HRF brought human rights activists from different countries to testify about the abuses committed by their respective governments 40 Oslo Freedom Forum Edit In May 2009 with support from the city of Oslo and the John Templeton Foundation HRF organized the Oslo Freedom Forum During the conference democracy and human rights activist toell their stories and express their views about human rights in the world 41 42 The forum holds an annual event in Oslo along with satellite events organized across the world 43 San Francisco Freedom Forum Edit In October 2012 the Human Rights Foundation hosted the first San Francisco Freedom Forum which was described as a unique convergence of pro freedom voices The event was supported by Peter Thiel s charitable foundation Sergey Brin s foundation and Anne Wojcicki Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on her first trip to the United States since 1971 was presented with a Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent Suu Kyi discussed the motives behind human rights violations and said that they cannot be addressed unless we know what can be done to prevent people from dehumanizing one another 44 The Forum brought attention to a number of human rights issues and other attendees included Manal al Sharif a Saudi woman who challenged her country s ban on women driving by coordinating a Women2Drive protest via YouTube and the spokesman of jailed Russian punk band Pussy Riot 45 46 47 Sime MIA Edit In November 2014 the Oslo Freedom Forum curated a session at the Sime MIA conference in Miami The conference featured HRF president Thor Halvorssen Jordanian cartoonist Suleiman Bakhit and North Korean refugee Yeonmi Park 48 Center for Law and Democracy EditHonduran Democracy Crisis Edit Following the 2009 Honduran coup d etat that deposed President Manuel Zelaya HRF requested all member states of the Organization of American States to adhere to the Inter American Democratic Charter HRF also advocated for the suspension of the government that ousted President Zelaya 49 HRF chairman Armando Valladares resigned on July 2 2009 in response to the HRF position on the Honduran coup 50 The new chairman of the organization was poet and former Czech president Vaclav Havel In November 2009 HRF published a report called The facts and the law behind the democratic crisis in Honduras 2009 51 non primary source needed in which it concluded that the Organization of American States had acted correctly in activating the Inter American Democratic Charter and incorrectly in its diplomatic actions to revert the military coup The report also concludes that the OAS behaved as an agent of Zelaya prior to the coup d etat and that Zelaya had been eroding Honduran democracy 52 Public perception EditAfter the HRF criticized the Bolivian government and specifically government minister Sacha Sergio Llorenti Soliz for alleged human rights violations in a public letter the minister referred to HRF as right wing 53 non primary source needed In the same month eighteen Latin America scholars signed an opinion piece in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten criticizing the Oslo Freedom Forum for focusing criticism only on Venezuela Bolivia and Ecuador three countries with leftist governments The scholars praised the group for putting the spotlight on key global issues but also stated that Cuban human rights activist Armando Valladares had defended the 2009 Honduran coup d etat while speaking at the forum 54 References Edit a b Our Mission hrf org Retrieved 2022 03 06 a b Simmons Ann 2018 03 20 Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov warns of a Russia increasingly devoid of freedoms Los Angeles Times Retrieved 12 March 2019 2018 Global Americans New Generation of Public Intellectuals Global Americans 14 June 2018 Retrieved 24 March 2019 Kahim Danny Oct 25 2014 The World s Dissidents Have Their Say New York Times NHC partners with Oslo Freedom Forum Norwegian Helsinki Committee 10 May 2011 Retrieved 12 March 2019 Vermes Thomas 23 May 2016 Thor Halvorssen apnet Oslo Freedom Forum 2016 FN blir styrt av diktaturer ABC Nyheter Retrieved 22 March 2019 OHCHR UN human rights experts Belarus must stop torturing protesters and prevent enforced disappearances www ohchr org 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