Peter Tatchell Foundation

The Peter Tatchell Foundation (PTF) is an independent, non-party political organisation based in the United Kingdom and named after its director, human rights activist Peter Tatchell. It "seeks to promote and protect the human rights of individuals, communities and nations, in the UK and internationally, in accordance with established national and international human rights law" and its stated aims and objectives are "to raise awareness, understanding, protection and implementation of human rights, in the UK and worldwide".[1]

The organisation works with a variety of human rights issues globally, such as homophobia, transphobia, sexism, gender inequality, racism, political freedom, censorship, religious discrimination, unjust detention, freedom of association, capital punishment, asylum and refugees, trade union rights, self-determination of oppressed peoples, torture, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and poverty.[1]

As of December 2014 the organisation is seeking charitable status.[1]

In 2012 the foundation gained funding from The Funding Network for three projects: "Casework & Advice", including adding an "Advice" section to its website; "Equal Love", campaigning on same-sex marriage and opposite-sex civil partnerships; and "Olympic Equality Initiative", working against sexism and homophobia in the Olympic movement.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "About us". Peter Tatchell Foundation. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  2. "Peter Tatchell Foundation". The Funding Network. Retrieved 19 December 2014.

External links

Official website

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