The Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance
United Kingdom

Goals and Purposes

Goals

To provide easy-to-understand human rights education to adults and children so that they are able to grasp what fundamental human rights are as aligned with the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

To effectively combat violations of human rights, focusing on the issues of children and religious freedom.

Purposes

To effectively carry out projects that address and help restore human rights and freedoms.

To create an expanding base of support by uniting like-minded people and groups of good faith and goodwill, so that they may stand as one to defend the rights of all.

The Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance United Kingdom
is a non-profit, association, established to increase awareness of the vital importance of human rights and to promote human rights internationally. It carries out projects to defend and restore rights and freedoms by uniting like-minded people and groups of faith and goodwill.

The Foundation is non-political
and does not take part in litigation, but works peacefully with those concerned to restore basic rights. Its members are ethical persons who share a determination to establish or restore basic human rights in every country in the world.

The Foundation is supported
solely through memberships and donations. Its members volunteer their time and efforts. Foundation members include people of many faiths and political persuasions -- like-minded individuals, groups, and organizations who support human rights and freedoms.

The Foundation holds
that each of us shares an individual responsibility to ensure that others are able to pursue their lives in peace, free from racial, religious, economic, social, or political repression of any kind.

The Foundation strongly believes
that duly elected governments share the profound responsibility to set examples of human rights and tolerance in their own countries, and to speak out effectively to redress human rights abuses wherever they occur. The Foundation holds that it is unnacceptable for any government to ostracize individuals because of their race, religion, creed, or color, or to foster suspicion, mistrust and conflict among its citizens. Inciting hatred of one citizen for another violates the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights, which states: 

"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance."

For a summary of our activities, see History and background of the Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance United Kingdom.