Grant Program International Human Rights

To build the capacity of African descendants in Latin America to combat racial discrimination.

To support lawyers working on post-September 11 cases by assisting their legal research and strategic planning and by preparing and submitting friend of the court briefs that raise human rights principles.

To enable human rights defenders to flee the Indonesian military major offensive in Aceh for other parts of Indonesia or other countries.

To enable Maitre Honore Musoko, the director of Congolese human rights organization Justice Plus, to resettle temporarily in Kampala during the crisis in Ituri.

To mobilize the medical and scientific communities to investigate human rights abuses and to promote and protect human rights around the world.

To research and prepare an annual report on human rights in Chile, which will be used to promote human rights standards within the country.

To promote human rights around the world by assisting human rights defenders, protecting refugees in flight from persecution and repression, creating safeguards for workers’ rights, supporting the International Criminal Court, and responding to US government measures that impinge on basic…

To protect and promote indigenous human rights in the state of Chiapas, Mexico through the network’s coordinating office, and to provide basic, understandable legal education to indigenous peoples.

To promote and protect human rights in Peru, with an emphasis on monitoring compliance with recommendations made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

To send a legal observer to monitor a politically motivated defamation suit against a high-profile Singaporean opposition leader.