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<div attachments="List []" body='"Los Angeles Times writer Patrick Goldstein refers to the organization as "respected",[107] while HRF – along with Human Rights Watch,[108] Freedom House, and other rights groups – has been called a CIA front by Jean Guy Allard writing for Granma, the official organ of the Cuban Communist Party.[109][110]' class="_3058 _ui9 _hh7 _s1- _52mr _3oh-" customcolor="" message="[object Object]" metaranges="" threadcustomcolor="#0084ff" threadid="user:511351586" participants='Map { "fbid:511351586": [object Object] }' data-tooltip-content="12:55pm" data-hover="tooltip" data-tooltip-position="left" id="js_7e" aria-describedby="js_3f">
<div class="_aok">"Los Angeles Times writer Patrick Goldstein refers to the organization as "respected",[107] while HRF – along with Human Rights Watch,[108] Freedom House, and other rights groups – has been called a CIA front by Jean Guy Allard writing for Granma, the official organ of the Cuban Communist Party.[109][110]</div>
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<div attachments="List []" body="San Francisco Freedom ForumIn 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.[93] 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.[94][95][96]" class="_3058 _ui9 _hh7 _s1- _52mr _3oh-" customcolor="" message="[object Object]" metaranges="" threadcustomcolor="#0084ff" threadid="user:511351586" participants='Map { "fbid:511351586": [object Object] }' data-tooltip-content="12:55pm" data-hover="tooltip" data-tooltip-position="left" id="js_5k">
<div class="_aok">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.[93] 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.[94][95][96]</div>
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<div attachments="List []" body="Human Rights Foundation is guided and endorsed by an International Council that includes former political prisoners Vladimir Bukovsky, Mutabar Tadjibaeva, Jacqueline Moudeina, Abdel Nasser Ould Ethmane, Park Sang Hak, Palden Gyatso, Elie Wiesel, and Harry Wu, as well as former Estonian prime minister Mart Laar, former president of Venezuela Ramón José Velásquez, and political commentator Álvaro Vargas Llosa.[2] Jurist and law professor Kenneth Anderson is also on HRF's International Council. Anderson was a founding director of the Human Rights Watch Arms Division and later general counsel to the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundations.[3] HRF's International Council was chaired by Václav Havel until his passing in December 2011. The Council is currently chaired by chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov.[4]" class="_3058 _ui9 _hh7 _s1- _52mr _3oh-" customcolor="" message="[object Object]" metaranges="" threadcustomcolor="#0084ff" threadid="user:511351586" participants='Map { "fbid:511351586": [object Object] }' data-tooltip-content="12:56pm" data-hover="tooltip" data-tooltip-position="left" id="js_3g">
<div class="_aok">Human Rights Foundation is guided and endorsed by an International Council that includes former political prisoners Vladimir Bukovsky, Mutabar Tadjibaeva, Jacqueline Moudeina, Abdel Nasser Ould Ethmane, Park Sang Hak, Palden Gyatso, Elie Wiesel, and Harry Wu, as well as former Estonian prime minister Mart Laar, former president of Venezuela Ramón José Velásquez, and political commentator Álvaro Vargas Llosa.[2] Jurist and law professor Kenneth Anderson is also on HRF's International Council. Anderson was a founding director of the Human Rights Watch Arms Division and later general counsel to the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundations.[3] HRF's International Council was chaired by Václav Havel until his passing in December 2011. The Council is currently chaired by chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov.[4]</div>
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