{"id":17598,"date":"2010-09-08T07:02:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T11:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=17598"},"modified":"2010-09-08T07:05:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T11:05:14","slug":"hedge-fund-magnate-donates-100-million-to-human-rights-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2010\/hedge-fund-magnate-donates-100-million-to-human-rights-watch.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Magnate Donates $100 Million To Human Rights Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/en-390-16-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17600\" title=\"George Soros\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/en-390-16-11-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/en-390-16-11-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/en-390-16-11.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Billionaire hedge fund magnate\u00a0George Soros is giving $100 million to the NY based Human Rights Watch (HRW), according to UK newspaper The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>The donation is the largest in HRW&#8217;s history, and the charity plans to expand it&#8217;s reach in developing countries like Brazil, South Africa and India,\u00a0through the donation. \u00a0HRW was started in 1978 as Helsinki Watch, and is as a watchdog on governmental abuses around the world, the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Human rights underpin our greatest aspirations: they&#8217;re at the heart of open societies,&#8221; Soros said. &#8220;Human Rights Watch must be present in capitals around the globe, addressing local issues, allied with local rights groups and engaging with local government officials.&#8221; (Quote taken from The Guardian)<\/p>\n<p>George Soros is also working with the NAACP as they launch a website designed to track racism in the Tea Party Movement.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Billionaire hedge fund magnate\u00a0George Soros is giving $100 million to the NY based Human Rights Watch (HRW), according to UK newspaper The Guardian. The donation is the largest in HRW&#8217;s history, and the charity plans to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news","category-philanthropy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17602,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17598\/revisions\/17602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}