The organization's website describes it as a
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 4:19 am
"limited membership organization and platform for high achievers" that aims to create "social change" driven by venture capital funding. Jared Cohen is an executive member.
Gen Next also supports an NGO launched by Cohen toward the end of his State Department tenure to bring online democracy activists from around the world under the auspices of the U.S. foreign policy network. The organization grew out of the Alliance of Youth Movements, a summit in 2008, with the support of the State Department and a handful of other sponsors, whose logos it bears.
The summit brought together hand-picked social media list of lebanon cell phone numbers activists from "trouble spots" like Venezuela and Cuba to watch speeches from the Obama campaign's new media group and State Department official James Glassman and to network with public relations consultants, "philanthropists" and American media personalities.
In addition, there were two more invitation summits in London and Mexico City, and at the latter, Hillary Clinton even addressed the delegates directly via video link: “You are the vanguard of a rising generation of civil society activists. […] And that makes you the leaders we need.”
In 2011, the Alliance of Youth Movements was renamed Movements.org. In 2012, Movements.org became a division of Advancing Human Rights, a new NGO created by Robert L. Bernstein after he resigned from Human Rights Watch (which he had founded) because he felt that the organization should not address human rights abuses in Israel and the United States.
Advancing Human Rights was meant to correct what Human Rights Watch had done wrong by focusing exclusively on “dictatorships.” Cohen said the merger of his Movements.org and Advancing Human Rights was “inevitable,” calling the latter “an extraordinary organization of cyber activists in the Middle East and North Africa.”
Gen Next also supports an NGO launched by Cohen toward the end of his State Department tenure to bring online democracy activists from around the world under the auspices of the U.S. foreign policy network. The organization grew out of the Alliance of Youth Movements, a summit in 2008, with the support of the State Department and a handful of other sponsors, whose logos it bears.
The summit brought together hand-picked social media list of lebanon cell phone numbers activists from "trouble spots" like Venezuela and Cuba to watch speeches from the Obama campaign's new media group and State Department official James Glassman and to network with public relations consultants, "philanthropists" and American media personalities.
In addition, there were two more invitation summits in London and Mexico City, and at the latter, Hillary Clinton even addressed the delegates directly via video link: “You are the vanguard of a rising generation of civil society activists. […] And that makes you the leaders we need.”
In 2011, the Alliance of Youth Movements was renamed Movements.org. In 2012, Movements.org became a division of Advancing Human Rights, a new NGO created by Robert L. Bernstein after he resigned from Human Rights Watch (which he had founded) because he felt that the organization should not address human rights abuses in Israel and the United States.
Advancing Human Rights was meant to correct what Human Rights Watch had done wrong by focusing exclusively on “dictatorships.” Cohen said the merger of his Movements.org and Advancing Human Rights was “inevitable,” calling the latter “an extraordinary organization of cyber activists in the Middle East and North Africa.”