Human Rights Foundation

For similar organizations, see Human Rights Foundation (New Zealand) and Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.
Human Rights Foundation
Founded2005; 19 years ago (2005)
FounderThor Halvorssen Mendoza
Location
Area served
Global
Chairman
Yulia Navalnaya
Websitehrf.org

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 opposition activist Yulia Navalnaya, 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]

  1. ^ a b "Our Mission". hrf.org. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  2. ^ Simmons, Ann (2018-03-20). "Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov warns of a Russia increasingly devoid of freedoms". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  3. ^ "2018 Global Americans New Generation of Public Intellectuals". Global Americans. 14 June 2018. Archived from the original on 24 March 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2019.