Thor Halvorssen (human rights activist)
| Thor Halvorssen Mendoza | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Thor Leonardo Halvorssen Mendoza March 9, 1976 Venezuela |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Organization |
Human Rights Foundation (Founder and CEO) Oslo Freedom Forum (Founder) |
Thor Leonardo Halvorssen Mendoza (born 1976)—commonly known as Thor Halvorssen—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."
Halvorssen is founder of the Oslo Freedom Forum and president of the Human Rights Foundation. He is a 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.
He is currently producing the film adaptation of Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress with Bryan Singer.
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.
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