Other Grants (2009)

• American Association for the Advancement of Science

  To mobilise scientists and scientific organisations worldwide to promote and protect human rights through the association’s “Scientists for Human Rights” initiative. The initiative will: organise meetings to educate scientific organisations about human rights; produce guides on collaboration to facilitate partnerships between human rights and scientific organisations; and recruit scientists to do pro bono human rights work. USD 241,229 (Over two years)

• Arab Human Rights Fund

  To build a local, dynamic and sustainable constituency working for human rights in the Middle East and North Africa region. Based in Beirut, the Arab Fund will make two rounds of small grants to NGOs throughout the 22 member countries of the Arab League which will support innovative and grass-roots initiatives with the aim of building support for human rights in the region. The project will also try to stimulate funding for human rights work from philanthropists based in the Arab region or from the Arab diaspora. USD 500,000 (Over two years)

• British Institute of Human Rights

  To establish a broad coalition of UK NGOs that will defend the Human Rights Act in the run-up to the next general election and build a culture of human rights through the convening of meetings, the organisation of briefings and press activities. USD 75,000

• Dabatem (Istanbul Centre for Behaviour Research and Therapy)

  To carry out a feasibility study for a largescale test of control-focused behavioural treatment for survivors of torture, with a view to developing a treatment protocol that would be evidence-based, outcomefocused and affordable; and to develop improved evaluation practices and current torture rehabilitation techniques. USD 19,500

• Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (University of Geneva)

  To contribute to the better understanding of international human rights and humanitarian law among the human rights community, relevant policy makers in government, NGOs and UN organisations in Geneva. The project aims to influence the debates on these issues in intergovernmental, academic and judicial forums; to provide scholarships for students in need; and to strengthen and develop the law applicable during armed conflicts and emergency situations, in particular relating to the war on terrorism. USD 210,000 (Over three years)

• Global Dialogue (Strategic Fund for Turkey)

  To support initiatives in Turkey to achieve accountability for disappearances, torture and killings perpetrated by security forces and armed groups in the South East of Turkey in the 1990s and 2000s, and to reform laws and practices to prevent their future occurrence. Global Dialogue will also support initiatives to prevent torture and ill-treatment in places of detention. The fund will make three rounds of small grants to between 15 and 30 NGOs. USD 630,000 (Over three years)

• International Rehabilitation Council of Torture Victims (IRCT)

  To strengthen the capacity of IRCTaccredited torture rehabilitation centres and increase multilateral funding for torture rehabilitation worldwide. Also, to enable IRCT to provide more re-grants in the global South and to improve and disseminate worldwide treatment protocols. It will also fund efforts to map and evaluate standard rehabilitation techniques, particularly for children, and to develop and support new treatment centres in regions of greatest need. In addition, to support ICRT to advocate globally for the unconditional observance of the complete prohibition of torture and pursue accountability and redress for its violation. USD 2,500,000 (Over two years)

• King Baudouin Foundation

  To design and conduct a survey of immigrants’ views on, and their experiences of, integration policy as practised in at least seven EU member states. The survey will focus on key determinants of effective integration and include analysis of the impact of counter-terrorism measures in the region. The survey’s findings are intended to fuel longer term policy reform advocacy within the framework of the EU Stockholm Programme on justice, policing and migration. USD 106,250

• Network of European Foundations (European Program on Integration and Migration)

  To work on behalf of migrants in Europe through: targeted grant-making to European NGOs to ensure a human rights consistent EU migration and integration policy; capacity-building of NGOs working on behalf of migrants and refugees to improve advocacy, outreach and evaluation; and support of learning exchanges between grantees and donor foundations. USD 187,500 (Over two years)

• Open Society Institute (Human Rights and Governance Grants Programme)

  To fund up to eight advocacy projects by local NGOs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia that seek to reduce torture and violence in prisons through the creation of independent and effective monitoring bodies. In particular, the projects will seek the ratification and implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture by the governments of the region. USD 400,000 (Over two years)

• Oxfam (Australia)

  To expand on the work of the International Detention Coalition (IDC) to prevent and limit the use of detention of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants worldwide; and to advocate for alternatives to detention. Oxfam will also assist in preparing the launch of an international campaign on Children in Detention, while promoting the development and adoption of best practices for the conditions and use of detention. USD 274,967 (Over two years)

• Public Interest Projects, Inc. (US Human Rights Fund)

  To substantially reduce the number of asylum seekers held long-term in immigration detention in the US and to create legally binding standards for conditions of confinement, especially for unaccompanied minors. The fund aims to guarantee the right to individualised hearings and appeals, and to ensure the least restrictive setting possible. Furthermore, it will promote the Campaign for a New Domestic Human Rights Agenda aiming to charter a federal inter-agency working group on human rights and create an independent and non-partisan civil and human rights monitoring body. USD 700,000 (Over two years)

• Television Trust for the Environment

  To fund a feature film looking at the harsh and sometimes illegal treatment of the 3,500 unaccompanied child migrants who arrive in the UK every year. The film will be used as the foundation for a popular campaign aimed at changing public attitudes towards child migrants, with the goal of bringing about specific improvements in the law and in the “culture of disbelief” surrounding the treatment of these children by the UK authorities. USD 225,000 (Over two years)

• Women’s Refugee Commission

  To ensure that asylum-seeking women, children and families in the US are detained only in exceptional and necessary circumstances; to promote alternative solutions for their detention and, in the interim, improve existing conditions of confinement. This will be achieved through monitoring, advocacy, policy and legal review, and research into detention alternatives, including the provision of technical assistance to federal agencies and community organisations for their implementation. USD 600,000 (Over two years)

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