“My sincere gratitude to everyone who has supported my human rights work. Your kindness and generosity is treasured. Please continue your financial support so I can sustain my campaigning. Warmest regards and solidarity.”
Peter Tatchell

The Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund supports campaigning, research and educational initiatives which challenge prejudice, discrimination, violence, repression and injustice. To this end, the fund will selectively support Peter Tatchell’s promotion of human rights, both in the UK and globally.

The Trustees of the Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund are:

Richard Kirker, Gill Butler, Alan Wilkinson, Adrian Gillan, Ross Jackson, Simon Woods  

The PTHRF is independent and non-party political. It may choose to be associated with or affiliated to other bodies with similar values and aims. 

Peter Tatchell has no organised funding for his campaigns, apart from financial support from the PTHRF. All donations received go direct to funding human rights work. Peter receives no income from the fund. He remains an unpaid, volunteer human rights activist.

We are committed to raising funds, accepting donations and working in partnership with funders to promote our aims. 

The fund is particularly concerned with the following areas: 

Homophobia
Sexism
Racism
Political Repression
Censorship
Suppression of Religion, Opinion or Belief
Unjust Detention
Restriction of Association
Torture
War Crimes
Crimes Against Humanity 

Funds will be provided for: 

Education
Research
Legal Assistance
Media Monitoring
Publications
Communications
Office Equipment
Travel
Campaign Materials

Peter Tatchell first began campaigning for lesbian and gay rights in September 1969, just three months after the Stonewall Riots. His activism almost mirrors the entire history of the homosexual rights movement.

Throughout more than 30 years of campaigning against homophobia and for civil liberties and social justice he has never received any organised funding.

Although he has achieved a lot, he could have done much more with adequate financial backing.

Given Peter's proven record of effective human rights work, it is time his campaigning was properly resourced to maximise its effectiveness and impact.

The aim of the Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund (PTHRF) is to support Peter's human rights campaigns and the work of other campaigners with which he is associated, both in the UK and internationally.

Peter has always fought to secure the recognition that gay rights ARE human rights.

Having helped win that argument and put gay rights issues in the mainstream, he is committed to promoting homosexual human rights as part of a broader humanitarian initiative, integrating lesbian and gay human rights within a universal human rights agenda.

One of his key new projects is the promotion of public awareness and pressure for the enforcement of international human rights laws.

Laws like the UN Convention Against Torture have been signed and ratified by many countries, but they are not being enforced.

Peter plans to use these laws to seek the arrest and prosecution of human rights abusers, such as President Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and the many other tyrants and torturers who currently violate human rights with impunity.

Through his attempts to arrest dictators like Mugabe, he hopes to create a growing momentum for the enforcement of international human rights laws.

The PTHRF exists to enable Peter to pursue this project and similar important human rights campaigns.

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