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Grants for 2008

Mexico

Asociacion Jalisciense de Apoyo a Grupos Indigenas A.C./ AJAGI (Jalisco Indigenous Support Association)
$25,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include pressing for the establishment of an indigenous-controlled protected nature reserve to protect the land rights of the Huichol people.


Centro Apoyo al Trabajador/ CAT (Workers Support Center)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include educating workers in the maquila sector about their labor rights, training them in how to secure those rights, and documenting government violations and abusive corporate practices to present as evidence before national and international courts.


Centro de Derechos de la Mujer de Chiapas, A.C./ CDMCH (Chiapas Women’s Rights Center)

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include pressing indigenous leaders and municipal authorities to respect and protect women's right to inherit, own and control the use of land.


Centro de Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres AC/ CEDHEM (Women’s Human Rights Center)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal aid to female victims of violence and campaigning for state policies that increase women's access to justice.


Centro de Derechos Humanos Victoria Diez AC (Victoria Diez Human Rights Center)           

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include pressing for public policies that prevent and punish gender-based violence in the state of Guanajuato.


Centro Derechos Humanos Fray Matias de Cordova (Fray Matias Human Rights Center)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting human rights abuses and providing legal aid to Central American migrants in the Mexico - Guatemala border region.


Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental/ CEMDA (Mexican Environmental Law Center)
$20,000 For CEMDA's project to bring national and international legal cases to promote the right to a healthy environment, and to provide human rights organizations and local communities with training in how to use environmental law to defend human rights.


Centro Mujeres (Women’s Center)
$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include mentoring young female community leaders, providing training on health rights for service providers and government representatives, and pressing for government policies that protect and promote reproductive and sexual rights.


Colectivo de Atencion para la Salud Integral de la Familia/ CIFAM (Collective for Family Health)
$20,000 For CIFAM's project to promote youth sexual and reproductive rights, including access to information and health care services, for marginalized urban and rural communities in Chiapas.



Comisión de Derechos Humanos y Laborales del Valle de Tehuacán/ Tehuacán (Human and Labor Rights Commission of the Tehuacán Valley)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting abuses committed against young, indigenous workers in the state of Puebla.


Elige Red de Jóvenes por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivas/ Elige (Choose) 
$20,000 For Elige's project to promote youth sexual and reproductive rights in Mexico City by educating young people about their rights and pressing city agencies and government to guarantee access to sexual and reproductive health services.


Foro para el Desarrollo Sustentable, A.C./ FORO (Forum for Sustainable Development)
$20,000 For the Forum's project to promote land and enviromental rights in Chiapas by helping indigenous communities to challenge land privatization and development projects that threaten their ability to earn their livelihoods through the sustainable use of natural resources.


Frente Civico Sinaloense, A.C. / Frente Civico (Sinaloa Civic Front)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include monitoring prison conditions, documenting human rights abuses committed by the police, and pressing for public policies that would prevent the use of torture in the violence-ridden state of Sinaloa.


Humanidad Sin Fronteras A.C./ Humanidad (Humanity without Borders)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting human rights abuses committed by the police and promoting the rights of migrants in the northern state of Coahuila.


Instituto de Derecho Ambiental/ IDEA (Institute for Environmental Law)
$20,000 For IDEA's project to promote the right to a healthy environment by providing legal assistance to communities affected by the pollution of Lake Chapala and to activists targeted for harassment and violence for refusing to be displaced by the construction of hydroelectric dams.


Instituto para Seguridad y la Democracia/ INSYDE (Institute for Security and Democracy)
$25,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include challenging police abuse and corruption by building civil society capacity to monitor, analyze and develop concrete proposals for public security reform.


Justicia para Nuestras Hijas/ Justicia (Justice for Our Daughters)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal aid to the families of victims of gender-based violence in Chihuahua, and working to raise the national and international profile of this human rights crisis.


Maderas del Pueblo del Sureste, A.C./ Madras del Pueblo (Southeastern People’s Land Association)

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include helping communities to challenge development projects that threaten to displace communities and destroy the natural resources on which they depend for their livelihoods.


Mexico Solidarity Network
$20,000 For its project to provide legal training to community-based, indigenous human rights defenders who work to facilitate access to justice for their communities and challenge discriminatory judicial practices.


Otros Mundos, A.C. (Other Worlds)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities including pressing local governments to protect the economic, social and cultural rights of indigenous communities by providing access to drinking water and electricity.


Proyecto de Derechos Economicos, Sociales y Culturas/ PRODESC
$25,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal support to organizations in Puebla to challenge labor rights abuses before national and international courts.


Red de Comunicadores Boca de Polén/ Boca de Polén (Boca de Polén Communication Network)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include educating indigenous communities about threats to their land rights posed by infrastructure development projects and promoting women's rights by pressing traditional leaders to hold perpetrators of violence against women accountable.


Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles, "Todos los Derechos para Todos y Todos"/ Todos (“All Rights for All” Human Rights Network)
$25,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include building the capacity of its fifty-seven member organizations based throughout the country and feeding the local concerns and proposals of its members into the national policymaking debate.


Servicios del Pueblo Mixe A.C./ SerMixe (Service to the Mixe People) 

$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include protecting indigenous land rights by challenging aspects of the government land privatization program that undermine rights and promoting access to safe drinking water.


Tlachinollan Human Rights Center/ Tlachinollan
$25,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting and prosecuting legal cases on human rights violations against indigenous people in the state of Guerrero and conducting workshops for indigenous communities on human rights and conflict resolution.


 

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