Grant Program International Human Rights

To seek an end to US authorities’ use of torture and other cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.

To seek the end of the US military’s use of torture, establish new legal protections against its use, hold perpetrators accountable, and end medical complicity in practicing torture.

To assist threatened human rights advocates around the world.

To participate in a pooled grantmaking fund to support domestic human rights projects and develop new donor partners to provide informed and strategic support to domestic human rights work.

To assist Latin American human rights organizations in accessing documents relating to human rights violations using freedom of information mechanisms.

To promote human rights in Venezuela through investigation, documentation and education.

To reverse discrimination in constitutionally mandated access to public education in the provinces of Buenos Aires and Tucumn, Argentina.

To promote human rights in Peru through litigation, training, documentation and education.

To provide legal expertise to human rights organizations in Colombia working to insure the Peace and Justice Law complies with international laws requiring gender equity in judicial proceedings and the right to redress for gender crimes.

To assist countries pursuing accountability for mass atrocity or human rights abuse.