Peter Tatchell Foundation
About Peter Tatchell Foundation
The Peter Tatchell
Foundation (PTF) 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.
The PTF seeks to raise
awareness, understanding, protection and implementation of human
rights, in the UK and worldwide. This involves research, education,
advice, casework, publicity and advocacy.
The human rights aims and
objectives of the PTF are charitable and with a public benefit.
The PTF is independent and
non-party political.
The PTF works on a
selected range of human
rights issues in selected countries. The issues we work on
include:
- Homophobia, biphobia &
transphobia
- Sexism & gender inequality
- Racial prejudice &
discrimination
- Censorship
- Suppression of religion, opinion or
belief
- Unjust detention
- Restriction of association
- Death penalty
- Ethnic persecution
- Refusal of asylum to refugees
- Violations of civil liberties
- Subjugation of national &
cultural minorities
- Denial of self-determination to
suppressed peoples
- Torture
- Genocide
- War crimes
- Crimes against humanity
- Global poverty & deprivation
What are human
rights?
Human Rights are the
rights and freedoms to which every human being is entitled, regardless of who
they are or where they live.
They were defined by the
United Nations in 1948, in a bid prevent a recurrence of the tyranny and
atrocities committed by the Nazi’s during World War Two.
The Universal Declaration of
Human Rights sets out 30 fundamental human rights that are the
entitlement of every person in the world.
The beginning of Article 1
of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights states:
All human
beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
This is why the Peter
Tatchell Foundation exists. We work to ensure that the human rights of people
in Britain – and all other countries – are respected and protected.
Sadly, over 60 years after
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was first signed in 1948, hundreds of
millions of people are still deprived of dignity and rights, including:
- children who are malnourished and
without clean drinking water;
- women and girls who are subjected
female genital mutilation and who are forced to veil themselves;
- LGBT people who are criminalised by
the state and queer-bashed by homophobic mobs;
- ethnic minorities who suffer
demonisation, displacement and discrimination;
- journalists, lawyers, authors and
human rights defenders who are censored, arrested and even killed;
- citizens in countries worldwide
whose civil liberties have been diminished in the name of the ‘war on
terror’.
The Peter
Tatchell Foundation strives for a world where every human being has human
rights.
We invite you
to join us.