International Human Rights Grants (2005)

To provide general support to improve management of human rights data including statistical analysis of gross human rights abuses to clarify history and promote justice in Burma, Chad and Colombia. (Second year of three-year grant).

• Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances

  To provide general support to create an effective pan-Asian network to combat enforced disappearances. (Over two years)

• Center for Constitutional Rights

  To secure the due process of all detainees held at Guantanamo from point of detention, trial and sentencing. To secure all detainees’ freedom from torture by challenging their rendition abroad for interrogation, torture and indefinite detention. (Over two years)

• EarthRights International

  To hold U.S. corporations accountable in U.S. courts for alleged complicity in egregious human rights abuses committed abroad including summary executions, forced displacement, labour, disappearances and torture; and to develop the international legal framework to enforce corporate social responsibility. (Over two years)

• European Council on Refugees and Exiles

  To campaign for a practicable but effective EU asylum policy consistent with international obligations of protection and non-refoulement.

• European Human Rights Advocacy Centre

  To support the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (London) and Memorial (Moscow), to seek redress for egregious human rights abuses committed by the Russian government, especially in Chechnya, through the European Court of Human Rights and build the capacity of local counsel to bring such cases to a successful conclusion. (Over two years)

• Human Rights Watch

  To support efforts to hold Hissene Habre (Chad) to account for possible crimes against humanity, including through the exercise of universal jurisdiction.

• Indian Law Resource Center

  To protect the human rights of American Indians, Alaskan native tribes and indigenous communities in the Americas through the provision of legal and material assistance to protect native title and stewardship of land; to seek redress for prior unlawful expropriation and pollution of native lands; and to negotiate international legal instruments to protect indigenous interests. (Over four years)

• Interights

• To build human rights capacity amongst legal practitioners in Africa, Eastern Europe and South Asia by developing local and international law to protect civil liberties in the context of counter-terrorism measures; freedom from discrimination (equality); and economic and social rights. (Over two years)

• International Legal Foundation

  To establish an effective and sustainable legal aid service for indigent criminal detainees across Afghanistan. (Over two years)

• International Rehabilitation Council on Torture Victims (IRCT)

• To provide general support for IRCT’s activities, principally in the developing world, to nurture forensic and treatment expertise amongst health professionals for the diagnosis and treatment of torture victims; institutionally develop dedicated rehabilitation centres, including through management and fundraising advice; campaign for the total prohibition on torture; and provide emergency funding to rehabilitation centres in the developing world.

Active Grants From Previous Years

• Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team

  To support forensic investigations into the disappeared in Argentina and similar gross human rights violations internationally; training of forensic professionals in human rights investigations; and use of forensic evidence for eventual prosecutions. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Beneficient Technology Inc. (Benetech)

  To provide general support to improve management of human rights data including statistical analysis of gross human rights abuses to clarify history and promote justice in Burma, Chad and Colombia. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Committee for the Administration of Justice

  To provide free legal advice to individuals ineligible for legal aid but whose cases warrant particular attention given their human rights content; and to advocate for human rights law reform in Northern Ireland including state accountability for collusion in abuses perpetrated by non-state actors. (Third year of three-year grant)

• Doctors of the World

  To provide medical assistance to vulnerable populations, including survivors of human rights abuses, and foster sustainable, locally managed health care services in the developing world. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Echoing Green

  To provide start-up grants and mentorship services to promising social justice initiatives worldwide, especially those focusing on civil and political rights. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Fund for Global Human Rights

  To support small, local human rights organisations located in the developing world. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Human Rights First

  To support advocacy and legal work to ensure the human rights consistency of counter-terrorism measures, accountability for gross human rights violations and protection of human rights defenders, especially in South-East Asia. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Human Rights in China

  To encourage, through the development of networks within and outside China, local, peaceful, human rights activism; to ensure international awareness of human rights abuses in China; and to engage in critical advocacy on behalf of dissidents and other human rights activists. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Human Rights Watch

  To support advocacy with respect to human rights emergencies, counter-terrorism measures, international humanitarian law and the rights of the vulnerable including women, children and refugees worldwide. (Second year of three-year grant)

• International Centre for Transitional Justice

  To support communities emerging from conflict or repression through technical advice with respect to truth-seeking initiatives, reparations, and reform of state institutions responsible for prior abuses. (Second year of three-year grant)

• International Commission of Jurists

  To support advocacy and legal work worldwide to ensure the proper administration of justice, including through an independent judiciary and bar. (Second year of three-year grant)

• International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission

  To support advocacy and legal work to combat the torture, physical abuse, harassment, and detention of sexual minorities in the developing world, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Jesuit Refugee Service

  To promote and protect the human rights of refugees, principally Burmese Karen refugees in Thailand, through the provision of basic medical and educational services. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Norwegian Refugee Council

  To improve the worldwide co-ordination of humanitarian relief for the internally displaced through a publicly accessible and operational database. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Physicians for Human Rights

  To support forensic investigations worldwide with a view to identifying and returning skeletal remains to victims' families, collecting forensic evidence for prosecutions, and diagnosing torture in detention facilities. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Refugees International

  To support advocacy aimed at generating life-saving humanitarian assistance, improved human rights protection for refugees and the internally displaced, and an end to those conditions leading to prolonged displacement. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Witness Inc.

  To empower local human rights defenders to strengthen the impact of their advocacy through the use of video images and other communication technologies. (Second year of two-year grant)

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