Issues Affecting Women Programme Grants (2006)

• Agisra Koln

  To provide psychosocial support, therapy and counselling to migrant and refugee girls and young women in Germany who are facing the problem of forced marriage. (Over three years)

• American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc

  To hold the US government accountable for the enforcement of both US domestic law and international human rights standards on behalf of victims of domestic violence and women who have been trafficked for employment. (Over two years)

• Ashiana Network

  To provide services to South Asian, Turkish and Iranian women in London who have been victims of domestic violence. To assist them with individual counselling and support groups, to raise individual and community awareness about domestic violence among young people. To educate professionals working in other social services agencies on culturally specific issues such as forced marriage, honour crimes and self-harm/suicide. (Over three years)

• CARE USA

  To strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations, specifically grassroots women’s rights advocacy organizations, in regionally and nationally coordinated actions to prevent human trafficking and gender-based violence in the former Yugoslavia. (Over two years)

• Cepia-Citizenship, Study, Research, Information and Action

  To provide training in Brazil to improve implementation of existing legal mechanisms to ensure that women’s human rights are respected. Trainees include governmental officers working in the security, justice, education and health sectors; NGO representatives; and media professionals from Brazil, Angola and Mozambique. (Over two years)

• Global Fund for Women

  To enable the organisation’s full-time presence in New York that will make possible the transformation of current donor interest into financial resources and facilitate work with New York-based development organisations, the U.N. and media representatives. (Over two years)

• Human Rights in Democracy Center

  To promote a positive change within Albanian police institutions towards the protection of women’s human rights.

• Safe Horizon

  To provide a comprehensive array of services, including crisis intervention and safety planning, education and information, advocacy, emotional support, and counselling to meet the needs of women victims of trafficking in New York. (Over two years)

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