International Human Rights Grants (2007)

• American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc

  To end Executive abuses including torture, indefinite detention and unlawful surveillance perpetrated in the context of counter-terrorism by mobilising diverse U.S. constituencies through the press, community activism and reaching across the political aisle, congressional action and litigation. (Over two years)

• Committee for the Administration of Justice

  To contribute, in partnership with British Irish Watch, to continuing truth seeking initiatives addressing the legacy of political conflict in Northern Ireland with a view to ensuring the accountability and reform of State institutions. (Over two years)

• Death Penalty Project Ltd

  To appeal gross miscarriages of justices for individuals on death row in African and Caribbean jurisdictions and to challenge through constitutional provisions and/or international law, systemic flaws in the application of the death penalty including its mandatory imposition and its applicability to juvenile offenders in Uganda and potentially other African jurisdictions. (Over two years)

• Front Line

  To mobilise European Union member states and European media in support of human rights defenders with a view to the improved implementation of the EU Guidelines on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. (Over two years)

• Humanitarian Law Centre

  To ensure that Serbia confronts the legacy of gross human rights abuses including through truth-telling initiatives, the rigorous documentation of political violence, domestic war crimes prosecutions and civil suits by victims against the State. (Over three years)

• Independent Diplomat Ltd

  To provide, on a confidential basis, independent advice on diplomatic strategy to governments, international institutions and NGOs with a view to levelling the playing field for the disadvantaged and marginalised.

• 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 among health professionals for the diagnosis and treatment of torture victims. To develop dedicated rehabilitation centres, and campaign for the total prohibition on torture. To regrant emergency funding to rehabilitation centres in the developing world.

• Kurdish Human Rights Project

  To secure redress for egregious human rights violations perpetrated against Kurdish minorities through strategic litigation at the European Court of Human Rights; to train local advocates to pursue such litigation; and to document and campaign against human rights abuses perpetrated against Kurds in Kurdish territories. (Over two years)

• Martin Ennals Foundation

  To honour two courageous human rights defenders, Akabr Ganji (Iran) and Anrold Tsunga (Zimbabwe) through the annual Martin Ennals Award; to launch an international awareness campaign to highlight their work through press activism and two film portraits.

• Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture

  To mobilise civil society, governments and UN mechanism through the use of Urgent Appeals to secure the release of individuals subjected to torture or unlawfully detained with particular reference to women and children. To provide emergency assistance to victims of torture; to protect human rights defenders and campaign for systemic improvements in human rights protection.

• Reprieve

  To support proactive media, parliamentary and community work on counter-terrorism addressing issues including torture, rendition, 90-day detention and the mooted repeal of the Human Rights Act in the UK. (Over two years)

• Save Darfur Coalition

  To influence African and Arab nations to persuade Khartoum to permit the deployment of a credible peace-keeping force under UN command; permit unfettered access for humanitarian agencies; permit the voluntary and safe return of those displaced to their region of origin; and ensure accountability for those responsible for the worst of the violence.

• 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. (Over two years)

ACTIVE GRANTS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS:

• Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances

  To provide general support to create an effective pan-Asian network to combat enforced disappearances and provide essential humanitarian relief to surviving relatives. (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. (Third year of three-year grant)

• 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. (Second year of two-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. (Third year of three-year grant)

• EarthRights International

  To hold US corporations accountable in US 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. (Second year of two-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. (Third year of three-year grant)

• 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. (Second year of two year grant)

• 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. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Fund for Global Human Rights

  To make funds available to small, local human rights organisations located in the developing world. (Third 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. (Third 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. (Third 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. (Third year of three-year grant)

• Indian Law Resource Center

  To protect the human rights of American Indian, 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; to negotiate international legal instruments to protect indigenous interests. (Second year of four-year grant)

• Interights

  To build human rights capacity among 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. (Second year of two-year grant)

• International Center 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. (Third 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. (Third 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. (Third year of three-year grant)

• International Legal Foundation

  To establish an effective and sustainable legal aid service for indigent criminal detainees across Afghanistan. (Second year of two-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. (Third year of three-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. (Third 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. (Third year of three-year grant)

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