Human Rights Foundation [SEP] inception
Human Rights Foundation
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a non-profit organization that describes itself as promoting and protecting human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. 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 New York City.
Organization.
Toronto (Sep)
- Companions on a Journey and Women's Support Group win Felipa DeSouza award from IGLHRC (May)
- Delhi hosts India's first public gay wedding for Vijay and Naseem (May)
- Milan Project (Naz India) files case with National Human Rights Commission against psychiatric abuse of a homosexual patient subjected to aversion therapy (May)
- Trikone magazine wins South Asian Journalists Association award for "South Asian Queers Out on the Internet" article(Jun)
- Four activists of Naz Foundation International