Grants for 2011

Babaylanes Incorporated (Babaylanes)

$10,000 For its project to educate university students about LGBT rights and to help students organize LGBT associations to press for university and public policies that respect and protect their rights

Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR)

$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting workers' rights violations, building the capacity of activists to protect and promote labor rights, and advocating for labor rights protections

Gay and Lesbian Activist Network for Gender Equality, Inc (GALANG)

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include educating lesbians in low-income, urban areas about their human rights and organizing campaigns to challenge discrimination against LGBT people that limits their access to education, health care and employment

Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center-Kasama sa Kalikasan (LCR-KsK)

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include legal, policy, and campaign support to indigenous peoples and upland rural communities struggling against threats to their land and resources

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 abuses and advocating for legal and policy reforms to promote the rights of victims of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings

Philippine Human Rights Information Center (PhilRights)

$25,000 - $15,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include researching and documenting human rights violations and helping affected communities challenge large-scale mining practices that threaten their land and resource rights, and $10,000 for its project with Kasibu Intertribal Response for Ecological Development (KIRED) to resist harmful mining operations in Kasibu

Pro-Labor Legal Assistance Center (PLACE)

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include legal aid, impact litigation, education, and legislative advocacy to protect and promote labor rights

Rainbow Rights Project, Inc (R-Rights)

$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal aid to 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 general support this organization, whose activities include documenting human rights violations, training human rights defenders, advocacy on behalf of political prisoners and detainees, and building the capacity of indigenous communities to resist large-scale mining operations threatening their land and resources

TLF Sexuality, Health, and Rights Educators Collective (TLF Share)

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include educating GBT persons about their rights, pressing for public policies that protect GBT rights, and facilitating access to legal and social support for GBT victims of rights abuses

United Youth of the Philippines-Women (UnYPhil-Women)

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include monitoring, documenting, and reporting on women's rights violations in conflict-affected Mindanao

Women's Legal and Human Rights Bureau (WLB)

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include challenging gender based violence and discrimination in their communities and conducting national, regional, and international advocacy to promote women's rights