2009
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 A.C. / CEDEHM 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 A.C. / Victoria Diez (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 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 A.C. / 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 de Tehuacán / Tehuacan Labor Commission (Human and Labor Rights Commission of the Tehuacán Valley)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting abuses committed against young, indigenous workers in the state of Puebla.
Elige, Red de Jovenes 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. / Maderas 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 Center / Red de Defensores Comunitarios por los Derechos Humanos - CCDN
$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 (Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Project)
$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.
Proyecto de Derechos Economicos, Sociales y Culturas / PRODESC (Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Project)
$28,500 For Prodesc's project to defend, promote, and empower the economic, social, and cultural rights of Mexicans in the post-NAFTA era.
Red de Comunicadores Boca de Polen / Boca de Polen (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" ("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 - Colectivo Oaxaqueño
$20,000 For SerMixe's project, in collaboration with Colectivo Oaxaqueño to provide legal and strategic support to a coalition of indigenous land rights groups in southern Mexico.
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
Tlachinollan Human Rights Center / THRC
$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
2008
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.
2007
Asociación Jaliscience de Apoyo a Grupos Indígenas /AJAGI(Jalisco Indigenous Support Association)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting the land rights of indigenous Huichol communities in southwestern Mexico by pressing for the establishment of an indigenous-controlled protected nature reserve.
Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Polítcas de Acción Comunitaria/ CIEPAC (Center for Economic and Political Research and Community Action)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing information and organizing tools to poor, indigenous communities in Chiapas whose basic rights to subsistence and use of natural resources are threatened by corporate-led globalization and development projects promoted by international financial institutions.
Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan (Tlachinollan Human Rights Center)
$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.
Centro de los Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres (Center for Women’s Rights)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting women’s rights in the northern state of Chihuahua by providing legal aid to female victims of violence and campaigning for state policies that increase women’s access to justice.
Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Fray Bartolomé Human Rights Center)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documentation, education and legal aid to address past and current human rights abuses in Chiapas, as well as research for and promotion of public policies that respect indigenous rights.
Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Matías de Córdova (Fray Matías de Córdova Human Rights Center)
$10,000 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.
Colectivo Integral para la Atención de la Familia /CIFAM (Collective for Family Health)
$15,000 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.
Centro de 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 Mujeres (Women’s Center)
$25,000 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 promote reproductive and sexual rights.
Comisión de Derechos Humanos y Laborales del Valle de Tehuacán (Human and Labor Rights Commission of the Tehuacán Valley)
$10,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting labor rights by documenting abuses committed against young, indigenous workers in the state of Puebla.
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 Sustenable (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 Cívico Sinaloense (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 (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 del 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 la 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 (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 (Southeastern People’s Land Association)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting indigenous rights by 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 Mexico Solidarity Network’s project to support Red de Defensores Comunitarios de Chiapas (Chiapas Community Defenders Network), a human rights organization based in Chiapas, Mexico that provides legal training to community-based, indigenous human rights defenders who work to facilitate access to justice for their communities and challenge discriminatory judicial practices.
Promedios (Community Communication Media)
$20,000 For Promedios’ project to provide training to indigenous communities in Chiapas to use video to document human rights abuses and to bring national and international attention to their struggles.
Proyecto de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales /PRODESC (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Program)
$15,000 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 Guerrerense de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos (Guerrero Human Rights Network)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include challenging gender-based violence, forced disappearance and violations of indigenous rights in the state of Guerrero.
Red de Comunicadores Boca de Polen (Boca de Polén Communicators Network)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include educating indigenous communities about threats to their lands posed by infrastructure development projects and promoting women’s rights by pressing traditional leaders to hold perpetrators of violence against women accountable.
Red de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos “Todos los Derechos para Todos y Todas” (All Rights for All Humans Rights Network)
$20,000 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.
2006
All Rights for All Human Rights Network (Red de Organizaciones de Derechos Humanos “Todos los Derechos para Todas y Todos”)
$30,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include providing technical assistance to increase the effectiveness of its fifty-two member organizations based throughout the country and feeding the local concerns and proposals of its members into the national policymaking debate to improve the human rights situation.
Association against Torture (ACAT)
$23,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include pressing for policies that prevent torture within the judicial system and for better conditions for women in detention.
Border Justice (Frontera con Justicia)
$15,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting human rights abuses committed by the police and providing legal aid to migrants in the northern state of Coahuila on the U.S. – Mexico border.
Center for Economic and Political Research and Community Action (CIEPAC)
$30,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include providing information and organizing tools to poor, indigenous communities in Chiapas whose basic rights to subsistence and use of natural resources are threatened by corporate-led globalization and by development projects promoted by international financial institutions.
Chiapas Community Defenders Network (CCDN)
$30,000 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.
Choose (Elige)
$30,000 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.
Collective for Family Health (CIFAM)
$23,000 for CIFAM’s project to promote youth leadership and participation in the defense of their sexual and reproductive rights, including access to information and health care services, in marginalized urban and rural communities in Chiapas.
Community Communication Media (Promedios)
$30,000 for Promedios’ project to provide training to indigenous communities to use video to document human rights abuses and to bring national and international attention to their struggles.
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Program (PRODESC)
$15,000 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.
Forum for Sustainable Development (Foro para el Desarrollo Sustenable)
$23,000 for the Forum’s project to promote indigenous peoples’ land and enviromental rights in Chiapas by strengthening local control of natural resources and helping communities to challenge land privatization programs that threaten their ability to earn their livelihoods through the sustainable use of natural resources.
Fray Bartolomé Human Rights Center
$30,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include documentation, education and legal aid to address past and current human rights abuses in Chiapas, as well as research for and promotion of public policies that respect indigenous rights.
Fray Matías de Córdova Human Rights Center
$8,000 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.
Guerrero Human Rights Network
$30,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting human rights in the state of Guerrero by coordinating the campaigns and activities of its members and providing technical assistance to small human rights organizations that operate with minimal funding.
Human and Labor Rights Commission of the Tehuacán Valley
$8,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting labor rights by documenting abuses committed against young, indigenous workers in the state of Puebla.
Indigenous People’s Human Rights and Assistance Center (CEDHAPI)
$23,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting access to justice for indigenous communities by providing legal aid to victims of human rights abuses and coordinating a network of indigenous lawyers in Oaxaca.
Institute for Environmental Law (IDEA)
$30,000 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.
Institute for Security and Democracy (INSyDE)
$38,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include convening human rights organizations, government officials and public security experts to share best practices on police reform, and building civil society capacity to monitor, analyze and develop concrete proposals for public security reform.
Jalisco Indigenous Support Association (AJAGI)
$15,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting the land rights of indigenous Huichol communities in southwestern Mexico by pressing for the establishment of an indigenous-controlled protected reserve.
Justice for Our Daughters (Justicia para Nuestras Hijas)
$23,000 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.
Mexican Environmental Law Center (CEMDA)
$30,000 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.
Prodh Human Rights Center (PRODH -- Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez)
$15,000 for support of the Prodh Center’s Monitoring and Advocacy project, which documents and reports human rights abuses and develops policy proposals for reform.
Promoting Women’s Economic and Social Rights (PROCADESC)
$15,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include educating women from poor urban and rural areas in Coahuila about their economic rights and helping them to press for government policies that promote those rights.
Sinaloa Civic Front (Frente Cívico Sinaloense)
$15,000 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.
Southeastern People’s Land Association (Maderas del Pueblo del Sureste)
$15,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting the rights of indigenous and farming communities to control and manage the land and natural resources on which they depend for their livelihoods by providing them with legal and technical support.
Tlachinollan Human Rights Center (Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña "Tlachinollan")
$30,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting the human rights of indigenous peoples in the state of Guerrero by providing legal aid to victims of abuse, promoting state policies that respect and defend human rights, mobilizing international support for the rights of indigenous peoples, and conducting human rights education with indigenous communities and organizations.
Women’s Center (Centro Mujeres)
$38,000 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 advocating for government policies that protect and promote reproductive and sexual rights.
Workers Support Center (CAT-- Centro de Apoyo al Trabajador)
$30,000 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.
2005
Workers Support Center (CAT—Centro de Apoyo al Trabajador)
$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.
Mexican Environmental Law Center (CEMDA-- Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental)
$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.
Women’s Center (Centro Mujeres)
$25,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include mentoring young community leaders, providing training on health rights for service providers and government representatives, and advocating for government policies that protect and promote reproductive and sexual rights at the local, state and national levels.
Center for Economic and Political Research and Community Action (CIEPAC --Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Políticas de Acción Comunitaria)
$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include providing information and organizing tools to poor, indigenous communities in Chiapas whose basic rights to subsistence and use of natural resources are threatened by corporate-led globalization and development projects promoted by international financial institutions.
Chiapas Community Human Rights Defenders Network (Red de Defensores Comunitarios por los Derechos Humanos en Chiapas)
$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.
Choice (Elige)
$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.
Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de las Casas)
$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include documentation, education and legal aid to address past and current human rights abuses in Chiapas, as well as research for and promotion of public policies that respect indigenous rights.
Institute for Environmental Law (IDEA—Instituto de Derecho Ambiental)
$20,000 for IDEA’s project to promote the right to a healthy environment by providing legal assistance to communities affected by the of pollution the Lerma - Chapala - Santiago – Pacífico Valley.
Security and Democracy Institute (INSYDE—Instituto para la Seguridad y la Democracia)
$25,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include convening human rights organizations, government officials, journalists, academics and public security experts to share best practices on democratic police reform, and building civil society capacity to monitor, analyze and develop concrete proposals for public security reform.
Prodh Human Rights Center (Prodh—Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez)
$25,000 for support of the Prodh Center’s Monitoring and Advocacy project, which seeks to ensure respect for human rights by identifying and taking advantage of opportunities to promote justice reform, the rule of law and economic, social and cultural rights.
Chiapas Media Project (Promedios—Promedios de Comunicación Comunitaria)
$20,000 for Promedios’ project to provide training to indigenous communities in Chiapas and Guerrero to use video to document human rights abuses and to use the Internet to access national and international news media and to communicate with international human rights organizations.
Tlachinollan Human Rights Center (Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan)
$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include the promotion and defense of the rights of indigenous peoples in the state of Guerrero through legal defense, policy advocacy, conflict resolution and human rights education with indigenous organizations and communities.
Guerrero Human Rights Network (Red Guerrerense de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos)
$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include coordinating a campaign to end forced disappearance in Guerrero and providing technical assistance to small human rights organizations with minimal funding.
Justice for Our Daughters (Justicia para Nuestras Hijas)
$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 the hundreds of unsolved murders of young women in northern Mexico.
All Rights for All Human Rights Network (Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos “Todos los Derechos para Todos”)
$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include providing technical assistance to increase the effectiveness of its fifty-two member organizations based throughout the country and feeding the local concerns and proposals of its members into the national policymaking debate.
Human and Labor Rights Commission of the Tehuacán Valley (Comisión de Derechos Humanos y Laborales del Valle de Tehuacán)
$5,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting labor rights violations committed against young, indigenous workers and advocating for the full implementation of labor rights protections.
2004
Center for Economic and Political Research and Community Action
(CIEPAC—Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Políticas de Acción Comunitaria)
$18,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include providing information and organizing tools to poor, indigenous communities in Chiapas whose basic rights to subsistence and use of natural resources are threatened by corporate-led globalization and development projects promoted by international financial institutions.
Workers Support Center
(CAT—Centro de Apoyo al Trabajador )
$20,000 for its project to educate workers in the maquila sector about their labor rights, train them in how to secure those rights, and document violations and abusive corporate practices to present as evidence before national and international courts.
Mexican Environmental Law Center
(CEMDA—Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental)
$10,000 for CEMDA’s project to complete and disseminate a manual on case law and legal mechanisms for using national and international laws to promote the right to a healthy environment.
Women’s Center (Centro Mujeres)
$20,000 for its project to mentor young women community leaders, provide training on health rights for service providers and government representatives, and disseminate documentation and policy analysis on reproductive and sexual rights.
Human and Labor Rights Commission of the Tehuacán Valley
(Comisión de Derechos Humanos y Laborales del Valle de Tehuacán)
$5,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting labor rights violations committed against young, indigenous workers and advocating for the full implementation of labor rights protections.
Choice (Elige)
$20,000 to support Elige’s project to train youth organizations in Tlaxcala, Guanajuato and Mexico City on youth sexual and reproductive rights, including how to document systemic violations and advocate for government policies that protect and promote these rights.
Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center
(Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de las Casas)
$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include documentation, education, and legal aid regarding past and current human rights abuses in Chiapas, as well as research and advocacy for legislative reform and public policy in support of indigenous rights.
Institute for Environmental Law
(IDEA—Instituto de Derecho Ambiental)
$15,000 to support IDEA’s project to promote the right to a healthy environment by pursuing a test case at the international level to press for the enforcement of existing environmental laws.
Security and Democracy Institute
(INSYDE—Instituto para la Seguridad y la Democracia)
$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include convening human rights organizations, government officials and public security experts to share best practices on police reform, and $15,000 for its project to build civil society capacity to monitor, analyze and develop concrete proposals for public security reform.
Justice for our Daughters
(Justicia para Nuestras Hijas)
$10,000 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.
Prodh Human Rights Center
(Prodh—Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez)
$25,000 to support the Prodh’s Monitoring and Advocacy project, which seeks to ensure respect for human rights by identifying and taking advantage of opportunities such as the release of a government human rights agenda in response to recommendations in the UN Human Rights Assessment.
Chiapas Media Project
(Promedios—Promedios de Comunicación Comunitaria)
$20,000 to support Promedios’ project to construct and equip two media centers in Chiapas to significantly enhance the ability of indigenous communities to document human rights abuses and to access national and international news media.
Chiapas Community Human Rights Defenders Network
(Red de Defensores Comunitarios por los Derechos Humanos en Chiapas)
$20,000 for its project to provide legal training to community-based, indigenous legal promoters who work to defend human rights and challenge discriminatory judicial practices.
All Rights for All Human Rights Network
(Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos
“Todos los Derechos para Todos”)
$15,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include coordinating the human rights advocacy work of fifty-two member organizations based throughout the country and feeding the local concerns and proposals of its members into national policymaking debates.
Guerrero Human Rights Network
(Red Guerrerense de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos)
$20,000 for its project to provide capacity building workshops to its six member organizations, most of which are very small groups with minimal funding, with the ultimate goal of creating an effective and sustainable statewide human rights movement.
Tlachinollan Human Rights Center
(Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan)
$20,000 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.
2003
Workers Support Center
(CAT—Centro de Apoyo al Trabajador )
$15,000 in general support of CAT’s work to promote workers’ rights. CAT educates and trains workers on labor rights, helps workers develop the skills to secure their rights, and investigates and documents human rights abuses in the Mexico’s export processing zone factories or maquiladoras.
Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center
(Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de las Casas)
$20,000 in general support of CDHFBC, whose activities include documentation, education, and legal aid regarding past and current human rights abuses in Chiapas. CDHFBC advocates for legislative reform and public policy in support of indigenous rights.
Mexican Environmental Law Center
(CEMDA-- Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental)
$25,000 in support of CEMDA’s project to build a formal human rights and environment program. CEMDA will develop a comprehensive manual on case law and legal mechanisms regarding human rights and the environment, conduct training of judges on these issues and pursue legal cases in defense of human rights and the environment.
Women’s Center (Centro Mujeres)
$20,000 in general support of Centro Mujeres, whose activities include training on women’s rights for public defenders, prosecutors and health professionals; delivery of health services; capacity building for young community leaders; and documentation and policy analysis regarding reproductive and sexual rights and violence against women.
Chiapas Community Human Rights Defenders Network
(Red de Defensores Comunitarios por los Derechos Humanos en Chiapas)
$20,000 in general support of the Red, which provides legal training and services on human rights issues to indigenous communities in Chiapas and coordinates a network of twenty-four community-based defenders—who represent twelve regions in the state and as many as thirty thousand people—in responding to human rights violations.
Center for Economic and Political Research and Community Action
(CIEPAC --Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Políticas de Acción Comunitaria)
$17,400 in general support of CIEPAC’s activities, which include education and capacity building for indigenous communities regarding land and resource rights and provision of information on the impact of globalization, free trade agreements, and Plan Puebla Panama on indigenous communities in Mexico.
Choice (Elige)
$25,000 to support Elige’s project to provide documentation and policy analysis on young peoples’ reproductive and sexual rights and related human rights violations in rural areas around Tlaxcala, Guanajuato and Mexico City, and to build the capacity of young community leaders on documenting, monitoring and advocating for these rights.
Institute for Environmental Law
(IDEA—Instituto de Derecho Ambiental)
$20,000 in support of IDEA’s project to pursue research, litigation and advocacy in defense of the rights of indigenous and other communities at risk due to environmental degradation.
Security and Democracy Institute
(INSYDE—Instituto para la Seguridad y la Democracia)
$30,000 in in support of an INSyDe project to analyze the level of accountability in cases of documented police abuse.
Prodh Human Rights Center
(Prodh—Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez)
$30,000 in support of Centro Prodh’s project to train indigenous lawyers on human rights issues in Oaxaca and Guerrero where there is widespread repression of indigenous people’s rights.
Chiapas Media Project
(Promedios—Promedios de Comunicación Comunitaria)
$20,000 in support of Promedios’ project to construct and equip media centers in Chiapas and Guerrero to enhance the capacity of indigenous communities to document human rights abuses.
Tlachinollan Human Rights Center
(Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan)
$20,000 in general support of THRC, whose activities include documentation, monitoring and pursuit of legal cases on human rights violations against indigenous people in two of seven regions in the state of Guerrero; training on land rights, human rights and conflict resolution; and dialogue within civil society on indigenous rights in Guerrero.
