HRF to Appear on CNN en Español Tonight with Patricia Janiot

NEW YORK (March 23, 2010) – Human Rights Foundation General Counsel Javier El-Hage will appear tonight on CNN en Español’s Panorama Mundial with Patricia Janiot. They will discuss the reasons behind HRF’s launch of www.Insulza.no – focusing specifically on how Jose Miguel Insulza has failed to protect human rights and democracy in the American continent during his tenure as secretary general of the Organization of American States. HRF has called for Insulza’s resignation and opposes his re-election as secretary general. The show airs tonight at 9:00 PM EDT.

HRF is an international nonpartisan organization devoted to defending human rights in the Americas. It centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries; HRF’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. HRF does not support nor condone violence. HRF’s International Council includes former prisoners of conscience Vladimir Bukovsky, Palden Gyatso, Václav Havel,Mutabar Tadjibaeva, Ramón J. Velásquez, Elie Wiesel, and Harry Wu.

Contact: Sarah Wasserman, Human Rights Foundation, (212) 246.8486, info@thehrf.org

José Miguel Insulza, Organization of American States, (202) 458.6836, jinsulza@oas.org.

Watch the video here.

Visit www.Insulza.no.

Read HRF’s press release calling for Insulza’s resignation here.