Thor Halvorssen (human rights activist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Thor Halvorssen (human rights activist)

Venezuelan human rights activist

Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1976

Place of Birth: Venezuela

Profession: human rights activist, film producer

Nationality: Venezuela

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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About Thor Halvorssen (human rights activist)

  • Thor Leonardo Halvorssen Mendoza (born 1976)—commonly known as Thor Halvorssen (Spanish pronunciation: ['to? al.'Ăźo?s.s?~n])—is a Venezuelan human rights advocate and film producer with contributions in the field of public policy, public interest advocacy, individual rights and civil liberties, and pro-democracy advocacy.
  • The New York Times described Halvorssen in an August 2007 profile as a maverick "who champions the underdog and the powerless." In a 2013 profile Buzzfeed publishes that Halvorssen "possesses a burning desire to right the countless injustices of this world and he has committed himself to this task with an intensity to match that of the dictatorship he has placed in his sights.
  • And he does not care if those injustices are being committed by the 'right-wing' or 'left-wing' regimes."Halvorssen is founder of the Oslo Freedom Forum, an annual gathering described by The Economist as a "spectacular human-rights festival ...
  • on its way to becoming a human-rights equivalent of the Davos economic forum".
  • Halvorssen is president of the Human Rights Foundation, an organization devoted to global human rights and freedom.
  • He is the Patron of the Czech-based Children's Peace Movement, On Own Feet, and founder of the Moving Picture Institute.
  • Halvorssen bought the traditionally leftist Norwegian news magazine Ny Tid in May 2010.Halvorssen's opinions have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, Time magazine, The Nation and National Journal, and he has appeared on television outlets such as al-Jazeera, BBC News, Fox News Channel’s The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity & Colmes, MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, CNN, and HBO.
  • Thor Halvorssen was a speaker at TEDx at the University of Pennsylvania in October 2010.Halvorssen testified to Congress that he was the target of a smear campaign by Fusion GPS.
  • Halvorssen provided testimony to the U.S.
  • Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2017.

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