HRC Co-Hosts Historic Breakfast at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Today, HRC co-hosted a historic breakfast alongside Credit Suisse, The Huffington Post, Microsoft, the Paul E. Singer Foundation, the Third Point Foundation, and TimeWarner at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The panels highlighted the global fight for LGBT equality and marked the first time in World Economic Forum history that LGBT rights were up for discussion. UN High Commissioner Navi Pillay gave opening remarks and highlighted the 2011 UN resolution classifying LGBT rights as human rights and their two recent UN studies on violence and discrimination against individuals around the world based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.
“Discussions like this (at Davos) feed into important decisions that will be made during the March session [at the United Nations],” Pillay remarked to a packed audience.
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Singer, who runs a hedge fund called Elliott Management, and Daniel S. Loeb, who runs another called Third Point LLC. They’re both conservatives and huge donors to the Republican Party. Singer underwrote last year’s GOP National Convention with $1 million of largesse. One operative called him “the big power broker in the Republican financial world.”
