Previous Grants

2009

Babaylanes Incorporated

$5,000 for its project to educate university students about LGBT rights and help students organize LGBT associations to press for university and public policies that respect and protect their rights.

Center for Trade Unions and Human Rights, Inc. / CTUHR

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting corporate abuses and building the capacity of activists to protect and promote labor rights.

National Union of People's Lawyers / NUPL

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include coordinating a network of human rights lawyers to provide legal aid to victims of rights violations and foster legal reforms to promote the rights of victims of enforced disappearances and their families.

Philippine Human Rights Information Center / PhilRights

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include helping affected communities challenge destructive mining practices that undermine their land and resource rights.

Rainbow Rights Project, Inc.

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal aid to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people whose rights have been violated, litigating test cases to expand jurisprudence on LGBT rights, and building alliances with mainstream human rights organizations and lawyers to generate additional support for LGBT rights.

Task Force Detainees of the Philippines / TFDP

$10,000 For the general support this organization, whose activities include documenting human rights violations, training human rights defenders, and pressing for government policies to prevent and punish torture.

TLFSexuality, Health and Rights Educators Collective, Inc

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include educating GBT persons about their rights, pressing for public policies that protect LGBT rights, and facilitating access to legal and social support for GBT victims of rights abuses.

Women's Legal Bureau / WLB

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include pursuing test case litigation and building the capacity of women to challenge gender-based violence in their communities.

2008

Philippine Human Rights Information Center/ PhilRights

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include helping affected communities challenge destructive mining practices that undermine their land and resource rights.

Task Force Detainees of the Philippines/ TFDP

$10,000 For the general support this organization, whose activities include documenting human rights violations, training human rights defenders, and pressing for government policies to prevent and punish torture.

Women's Legal Bureau/ WLB

$10,000 For general support of this women's rights organization, whose activities include pursuing test case litigation and building the capacity of women to challenge gender-based violence in their communities.