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Previous Grants

India

2010

Astha/Association of Strong Women Alone (ASTHA/ASWA)

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include social services, legal aid, and grassroots organizing to support the rights of "women alone" in Rajasthan, and supporting the creation and development of "women alone" groups in other states in India.

Center for Promotion of Social Concerns (People's Watch)

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights monitoring, documentation, and reporting; legal aid; media advocacy; human rights education in government schools; and a national campaign to stop torture.

Centre for Rural Studies and Development (CRSD)

$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include grassroots organizing to promote Dalits' rights to land, health, education, and livelihoods and monitoring the Andhra Pradesh state government's implementation of policies intended to promote economic and social rights.

Centre for Workers' Management (CWM)

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include labor rights education, research and documentation, and policy campaigns to promote the right to association and collective bargaining rights.

Community Awareness and Research Education Trust (CARE-T)

$10,000 For general support of this organization whose activities include organizing fisherfolk in Tamil Nadu to demand their economic, social, and civil rights, including proper implementation of social security and housing programs, and challenging discrimination in the provision of public services.

DDS Salaam Initiative (Aneka)

$30,000 For DDS Salaam Initiative's projects, in collaboration with Aneka: 1) $20,000 to train and support emerging sexuality rights and sex workers' groups, hold consultative meetings, conduct research, and form networks, and 2) $10,000 to provide fellowships to promising sexuality rights activists to foster collaboration and strategic human rights activism across the country.

Developing Initiatives in Social and Human Action (DISHA)

$40,000 For $30,000 in general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights training, grassroots organizing, and policy advocacy and $10,000 for its project in collaboration with Anusandhan to do research, analysis, and advocacy to compel the state to fulfill its economic and social rights obligations with regard to Dalits, tribals, women, children, and the disabled.

Elgar Pratishthan

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include grassroots organizing, human rights education, and legal aid to promote the land, water, and labor rights of tribals in Maharashtra.

Jan Sahas Social Development Society / Jan Sahas

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include legal and human rights education, grassroots organizing, legal aid, and campaigns to promote the human rights of Dalits, particularly women, in Madhya Pradesh.

Jana Sanghati Kendra / JSK (SMS)

$35,000 -- $30,000 to support JSK's project, in collaboration with Shramajivee Mahila Samity and Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity, to organize poor communities to defend and claim their labor rights and land rights, promote access to justice, and provide legal aid to domestic violence survivors in West Bengal and $5,000 for its project to strengthen the movement of workers in the unorganized sector.

Jana Sanghati Kendra / JSK (Solidarity Center)

$30,000 For JSK's project, in collaboration with Solidarity Center, to organize fellowships and training for promising activists to promote labor rights for the poor and to support grassroots organizing for unorganized sector workers, especially waste pickers.

Magic Lantern Foundation / MLF (DAG)

$20,000 For MLF's project, in collaboration with Dynamic Action Group, to provide legal and human rights training, document human rights violations, strengthen women’s participation and leadership, and promote Dalit rights in Uttar Pradesh.

Mahila Jagran Kendra (MJK)

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal aid, conducting public campaigns, and grassroots organizing to promote the civil, political, and economic rights of women in Bihar.

Mahila Shram Sewa Nyas / MSSN (SEWA MP)

$30,000 For MSSN's project, in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women's Association Madhya Pradesh, to organize policy campaigns for the rights of rural women workers in the informal sector in Madhya Pradesh.

National Alliance of Street Vendors of India (NASVI)

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include challenging violence and harassment against street vendors through legislative and media campaigns, grassroots organizing, and litigation.

Prajwala Sangham (SKA)

$15,000 For Prajwala Sangham's project, in collaboration with Safai Karmachari Andolan, to conduct human rights awareness campaigns, educate civil society, and file public interest litigation cases to promote Dalit rights and enforcement of the national ban on manual scavenging.

Samarthan

$22,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights training and education; media advocacy; and policy campaigns to challenge corruption, foster police reform, and promote the enforcement of economic and social rights protections for the poor, including women, children, laborers, tribals, Dalits and nomadic tribes in Maharashtra.

Sampada Grameen Mahila Sanstha (SANGRAM)

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include HIV/AIDS education and services; grassroots organizing of sex workers, migrant workers and sexual minorities in Maharashtra; and campaigning to challenge discrimination that fuels harassment and violence against sex workers and sexual minorities.

Sangama

$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include crisis intervention, HIV/AIDS education and services, human rights campaigns, and mentoring emerging rights groups in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

Sangama/Samatha (Samatha)

$35,000 For $30,000 to support Sangama's project, in collaboration with Samatha, to undertake human rights education, grassroots organizing, crisis intervention, and policy campaigns to promote the human rights of Dalits, particularly women, as well as tribals, Muslims, and other marginalized minorities and $5,000 to support Samatha's project with KDMV to promote the rights of Dalit women in Karnataka.

Sanhita (Pratyay)

$15,000 For Sanhita's project, in collaboration with Pratyay Gender Trust, to provide sexual minorities with human rights education, crisis intervention, and safe shelter and to organize campaigns to challenge harrassment, discrimination, and violence against sexual minorities in West Bengal.

Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

$15,000 For SEWA Trust's project, in collaboration with SEWA, to promote grassroots organizing of poor, self-employed women in Gujarat to promote their rights to work, education, and health care.

Society For Social Uplift Through Rural Action (SUTRA)

$30,000 For SUTRA's project, in collaboration with Ekal Nari Shakhti Sangathan (Association of Strong Women Alone), to promote the property, land, and labor rights of widows and single women in Himachal Pradesh and to challenge gender-based violence and harassment.

Vidhayak Sansad

$40,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include grassroots organizing, human rights training, legal action, and public campaigns for the rights of poor, rural, tribal communities in Maharashta, and for its project to mentor emerging labor rights groups.

Vikalp Women's Group (Vikalp)

$16,000 For general support of this organization, based in Gujarat, whose activities include grassroots campaigns to secure access to government health, social, and poverty alleviation programs for poor women and sexual minorities and legal interventions to promote women's land rights and to stop domestic violence.

Yakshi

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights training and civic education for tribal youth and women to foster networks of community human rights groups at the local and state levels in Andhra Pradesh and to promote tribal rights to land and livelihoods.

2009

CARE Trust

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include grassroots organizing of fisher folk and families devastated by the 2004 tsunami to demand proper implementation of social security and housing programs by the government and challenging discrimination in the provision of public services.

Center for Promotion of Social Concerns People's Watch

$30,000

For general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights monitoring/documentation/reporting, legal aid, media campaigns, human rights education in governmental schools, and a national campaign to stop torture.

Centre for Rural Studies and Development / CRSD

$20,000

For general support of this organization, whose activities include grassroots organizing to promote Dalits' rights to land, health, education, and livelihoods, and monitoring the Andhra Pradesh state government's implementation of policies intended to promote economic and social rights.

Centre for Workers' Management / CWM

DDS Salam Initiative / ANEKA

$20,000

For DDS Salam Initiative's project, in collaboration with Aneka, to train and provide technical support for emerging sexuality rights organizations, hold consultative meetings, research, and dialogue in order to foster collaboration and strategic human rights activism across the country.

Developing Initiatives in Social and Human Action / DISHA

$40,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights training, grassroots organizing, and policy campaigns for its project in collaboration with Patheya Trust to train activists and civil society representatives to use budget monitoring and analysis to promote the rights of the poor.

Elgar Pratishthan

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include legal aid, economic development, and grassroots organizing to promote the land/resource/labor rights of tribals in Maharashtra.

Jan Sahas Social Development Society / Jan Sahas

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include legal and human rights education, grassroots organizing, legal aid, and policy campaigns to promote the human rights of Dalits, particularly women, in Madhya Pradesh.

Jana Sanghati Kendra / JSK – Solidarity Center

$30,000 For JSK's project, in collaboration with Solidarity Center, to organize a fellowship program and training for promising activists to promote labor rights for the poor and to support grassroots organizing for unorganized sector workers such as waste pickers.

Jana Sanghati Kendra / JSK – SMS

$30,000 For JSK's project, in collaboration with Shramajivee Mahila Samity and Paschin Banga Khet Majoor Samity, to organize poor communities to defend and claim their labor rights and land rights, promote access to justice, and provide legal aid and medical services to survivors of domestic violence in West Bengal.

Magic Lantern Foundation / MLF - DAG

$20,000 For MLF's project, in collaboration with Dynamic Action Group, to provide legal/human rights training, document human rights violations, and to promote Dalit rights in Uttar Pradesh.

Mahila Jagran Kendra / MJK

Mahila Shram Sewa Nyas / SEWA MP

$30,000 For MSSN's project, in collaboration with SEWA Madhya Pradesh, to organize policy campaigns for the rights of rural women workers in the informal sector in Madhya Pradesh.

National Alliance of Street Vendors of India / NASVI

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include challenging pervasive violence and harassment against street vendors through legislative and media campaigns, grassroots organizing, and litigation.

Prajwala Sangham /SKA

$15,000 For Prajwala Sangham's project, in collaboration with Safai Karmachari Andolan, to conduct human rights awareness campaigns, educate civil society, and file public interest litigation cases to promote enforcement of the national ban on manual scavenging.

Samarthan

$22,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights training/education, media and policy campaigns to challenge corruption, foster police reform, and promote the enforcement of economic and social rights protections for the poor, including women, children, laborers, tribals, Dalits and nomadic tribes in Maharashtra.

Sampada Grameen Mahila Sanstha / SANGRAM

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include HIV/AIDS education and services; grassroots organizing of sex workers, migrant workers and sexual minorities in Maharashtra; and campaigning to challenge discriminatory laws and policies that fuel harassment, discrimination and violence against sex workers and sexual minorities.

Sangama

$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include crisis intervention, HIV/AIDS education and services, campaigns, and the mentoring of emerging rights groups in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

Sangama / Samatha

$30,000 For Sangama's project, in collaboration with Samatha, to undertake human rights education, grassroots organizing, crisis intervention, and policy campaigns to promote the human rights of Dalits, particularly women, as well as tribals, Muslims, and other marginalized minorities in Karnataka.

Sanhita / Pratyay

$15,000 For Sanhita's project, in collaboration with Pratyay Gender Trust, to provide sexual minorities with human rights education, crisis intervention, and safe shelter; and to organize campaigns to challenge violence and discrimination against sexual minorities in West Bengal.

Self-Employed Women's Association / SEWA

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include conducting policy campaigns and grassroots organizing of poor women in Gujarat to promote the rights to work, education and health care.

Society For Social Uplift Through Rural Action / SUTRA

$30,000 For SUTRA's project, in collaboration with Ekal Nari Shakhti Sangathan (Association of Strong Women Alone), to promote the property, land and labor rights of widows and single women in Jharkhand and to challenge gender-based violence and harassment.

Vidhayak Sansad / VS

Vikalp Women's Group / Vikalp

$16,000 For general support of this organization, based in Gujarat, whose activities include grassroots campaigns to secure access to government health, social and poverty alleviation programs for poor women and sexual minorities and legal interventions to promote women's land rights and to stop domestic violence.

Yakshi

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights training and civic education for Adivasi youth and women to foster networks of community human rights groups at the local and state (Andhra Pradesh) levels, and campaigns to promote tribal rights to land and livelihoods.

2008

Aneka

$20,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to foster and strengthen sexual minority and sex worker rights activism through training, mentoring, action research and alliance building.

ASTHA/Association of Strong Women Alone (ASWA)
$27,000 For general support of this organization, which provides social services and legal aid, and conducts grassroots organizing to support the rights of “women alone” in Rajasthan.

Centre for Rural Studies and Development (CRSD)
$20,000 For the general support of this organization, whose activities include empowering the rural poor to organize themselves and demand their rights to land, education, and to live in a society free of violence.

DISHA
$35,000 For general support of this organization, based in Gujarat, which promotes the rights of the rural poor—primarily tribals—through human rights training, grassroots organizing, and policy reform, and for its project in collaboration with Patheya Trust, a new budget advocacy institute.

Elgar
$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include legal aid, economic development, and grassroots organizing to promote the land/resource/labor rights of tribals in Maharashtra.

Jana Sanghati Kendra (JSK)
$30,000 For its project in collaboration with Shramajivee Mahila Samity (SMS) and Paschinmbanga Khet Majoor Samity (PBKMS) to mobilize poor communities in support of their labor and land rights, and to expand legal protections for women from violence.

Jana Sanghati Kendra (JSK)
$30,000 For its project in collaboration with Solidarity Center, which mentors promising activists across the country to strengthen legal protections and promote labor rights for the poor and for unorganized sector workers.

Magic Lantern Foundation (MLF)
$20,000 For its project in collaboration with Dynamic Action Group (DAG), whose activities include legal/human rights training, human rights documentation, and campaigns to promote Dalit rights in Uttar Pradesh.

Mahila Jagran Kendra (MJK)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include legal aid, public campaigns, and grassroots organizing to promote the civil, political and economic rights of women in Bihar.

National Association of Street Vendors (NASVI)

$30,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to challenge pervasive violence and harassment against street vendors through legislative and media campaigns, grassroots organizing, and litigation.

People’s Watch
$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights monitoring/documentation/reporting, legal aid, media work, and a national campaign to stop torture.

Safai Karamchari Andolan (SKA)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include pressing for enforcement of the national ban on manual scavenging (whereby particular Dalit castes collect and dispose of human excreta).

Samarthan
$22,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include grassroots organizing, media campaigns, and legal aid to promote the rights of the poor, including women, children, laborers, tribals, Dalits and nomadic tribes in Maharashtra.

SANGAMA
$30,000 For its project in collaboration with Samatha, which seeks to promote the rights and welfare of Dalits, particularly women, as well as Adivasis, Muslims and other marginalized minorities in Karnataka through grassroots organizing, human rights education, crisis intervention, and policy campaigns.

SANGAMA
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include crisis intervention, HIV/AIDS education and services, human rights campaigns for sexual minority rights, and efforts to foster a growing movement of sexuality rights activists in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Andhra Pradesh.

Sampada Grameen Mahila Sanstha (SANGRAM)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to promote the rights of sex workers, sexual minorities, youth and other vulnerable groups and challenge the stigma and violence that fuel the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Sanhita
$15,000 For its project in collaboration with Pratyay Gender Trust, whose activities promote the rights of sexual minorities in West Bengal, including access to information and health care services, documentation of human rights abuses, crisis intervention, and campaigns to challenge violence and discrimination.

CARE Trust
$10,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to challenge discrimination against poor women-headed households and fisher folk in areas of Tamil Nadu devastated by the 2004 tsunami.

Subhi Association for Women with Disabilities (SAWD)
$5,000 For SAWD’s project to undertake exposure visits and other capacity building efforts to promote the rights and welfare of disabled girls and women in West Bengal.

Mahila Shram SEWA Nyas
$20,000 For its project in collaboration with SEWA MP, which seeks to promote women’s rights to a livelihood, labor protections, and health care, and to challenge violence and discrimination in exercising those rights.

Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) Trust
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting women’s rights to work, education, and healthcare in the state of Gujarat.

SUTRA
$18,000 For its project in collaboration with Ekal Nari Shakhti Sangathan (Association of Strong Women Alone) to promote the property, land and labor rights of widows and single women in the state of Jharkhand.

Utthan
10,000 For Utthan’s project to promote women’s economic, social, and civil rights in Gujarat by promoting the rights of women to livelihoods, and their access to, and management of, natural resources.

Vidhayak Sansad
$40,000 For general support of this organization which seeks to promote the rights of tribal poor to land, livelihoods and justice in Maharashtra through grassroots organizing, human rights training, legal action, and public campaigns, and for its project to mentor emerging labor rights groups.

Vikalp
$16,000 For general support of this organization, which promotes the rights of women in Gujarat through grassroots campaigns, social action groups, economic programs, and public interest litigation.

Yakshi

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights training and civic education for Adivasi youth and women to foster networks of community human rights groups at the local and state (Andhra Pradesh) levels, and legislative campaigns to promote tribal rights to land and livelihoods.

Grants for 2006

Note: Grants made in 2006 were 18-month grants and not the Fund's traditional 12-month grants. This was a one-time action to facilitate a new application schedule. With rare exception, all Fund for Global Human Rights grants are 12-months in duration.

Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives (AALI)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights documentation, education, and campaigns to promote the rights of poor and minority women in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

Area Networking And Development Initiatives (ANANDI)
$22,500 For general support of this organization, whose activities include educating and empowering rural poor tribal women in Gujarat to become leaders in their communities and promote their civil and economic rights.

ASTHA/Association of Strong Women Alone (ASWA)
$36,000 For general support of this organization, which provides social services and legal aid, and conducts grassroots organizing to support the rights of “women alone” in Rajasthan.

BHASHA Research and Public Center
$10,000 For BHASHA’s project to promote the rights of denotified and nomadic tribals (DNT) through policy reform, documentation of human rights abuses, and building a DNT rights network across the country.

Community Awareness Research and Education Trust (CARE-T)
$15,000 For CARE Trust’s project in Tamil Nadu to challenge discrimination against women-headed households, salt pan workers, fishing laborers, and other poor people in relief and rehabilitation programs for communities devastated by the 2004 tsunami, and to promote their economic, social and civil rights.

Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT)
$30,000 For CEHAT’s project on creating awareness about the role of healthcare providers in responding to sexual violence, and campaigns and training to promote use of standardized sexual assault care and evidence kits in public health facilities in Maharashtra as well as the national level.

Centre for Rural Studies and Development (CRSD)
$22,500 For general support of this organization in Andhra Pradesh, whose activities include supporting the efforts of the rural poor to organize and demand their rights to land, education, and to live in a society free of violence.

DISHA
$22,500 For general support of this organization, based in Gujarat, which promotes the rights of the rural poor—primarily tribals—through human rights training, grassroots organizing, and policy reform.

Dynamic Action Group
$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include legal/human rights training, particularly for women activists; documentation of human rights violations; legal action, and campaigns to promote Dalit rights in Uttar Pradesh.

Elgar
$45,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include legal aid, a thriving women’s credit cooperative, and grassroots organizing to promote the land/resource/labor rights of thousands of tribals and other rural poor in Maharashtra.

FIRM
$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities promote the rights of sex workers, sexual minorities, and people living with HIV/AIDS in Kerala through legal and media campaigns, health services and crisis intervention, and grassroots organizing to mentor community-based groups to challenge human rights abuses.

Jan Vikas
$30,000 For this organization’s project to identify, train, and mentor human rights activists in Uttar Pradesh in support of the human rights of marginalized groups, including Muslims, Dalits, and women.

Mahila Jagran Kendra (MJK)
$7,500 For general support of this organization, whose activities include legal aid public campaigns, and organizing at grassroots level to challenge violence against women and promote the civil, political, and economic rights of women in Bihar.

National Association of Street Vendors (NASVI)
$30,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to challenge regular eviction, pervasive violence and harassment against street vendors through policy, media campaigns, grassroots organizing, and litigation.

People’s Watch
$45,000 For People’s Watch’s project to fight the practice of torture in the Northeast and other states across India through human rights education, legal training, and campaigns for policy reform.

Point of View
$20,000 For POV/Sangram’s joint initiative to promote sex workers’ rights through training, popular theater, and public education campaigns and foster collaboration between the women’s rights and sex worker rights movements in India.

Pratyay Gender Trust
$7,500 For general support of this organization, which promotes the rights of people of marginalized sexualities and gender identities in West Bengal, including access to information and health care services, thorough documentation of human rights abuses, crisis intervention, and local campaigns to challenge violence and discrimination.

Safai Karamchari Andolan (SKA)
$6,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include pressing for enforcement of the national ban on manual scavenging (whereby particular Dalit castes collect and dispose of human excreta).

Samarthan
$30,000 For general support of this organization, that undertakes campaigns for the rights of the poor, including women, children, laborers, tribals, Dalits, and nomadic tribes in Maharashtra.

SANGAMA
$45,000 For Sangama’s project to implement public education campaigns at the state (Karnataka) and national levels for sexual minority rights and foster a growing movement of sexuality rights activists in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala.

Sampada Grameen Mahila Sanstha (SANGRAM)
$15,000 For Sangram’s project, to combat gender-based violence affecting tribal women in the Nashik district of Maharashtra.

Social Action Research Center (SARC)
$15,000 For general support of this organization working to promote women’s and children’s rights in eastern Uttar Pradesh through human rights education, grassroots organizing, and legal action.

Subhi Association for Women with Disabilities (AWWD)
$7,500 For the general support of this organization, based in West Bengal, working towards empowerment and mainstreaming of disabled girls and women to promote their rights for a meaningful, quality life with self-pride and dignity.

Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) Trust

$22,500 For this organization’s efforts to challenge state-sponsored harassment of women in Gujarat.

Shramajivee Mahila Samity (SMS)
$37,500 For general support of SMS, based in West Bengal, whose activities include mobilizing tea plantation workers to defend their labor rights, strengthening legal protections for women from violence, and pressing for state level reforms to protect the rights and welfare of millions of unorganized sector workers.

Sharmajivi Mahila Smity (SMS) - Ekal Nari Sangathan
$15,000 For SMS’s project to establish the Association of Strong Women Alone (Ekal Nari Sangathan) to promote the property, land and labor rights of widows and single women in the state of Jharkhand.

Utthan
$22,500 For Utthan’s project to promote women’s socio-economic, civil and political rights in four districts in Gujarat by strengthening the rights of women to sustainable livelihoods, and access and management of water and other natural resources, participation in governance, and lives free from violence.

Vanangana
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include community mobilizing, legal aid and social support to enable women and youth to access their basic human right to a life free of violence.

Vidhayak Sansad
$37,500 For Vidhayak Sansad’s project to conduct human rights training, civic education, and legal aid, and to pursue policy reform in support of the rights of tribals and bonded laborers.

Vikalp
$22,500 For general support of this organization, which promotes the rights of women in Gujarat through grassroots campaigns, social action groups, economic programs, and sexual minorities’ public interest litigation.

Yakshi
$60,000 For Yakshi’s project to conduct human rights training and civic education for Adivasi youth and women, foster networks of community resource groups at the local and state (Andhra Pradesh) levels, and promote legislative reform protecting tribal rights to land and livelihoods.

Grants for 2005

Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives (AALI)
$10,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include public education and legal aid to end violence against women in Uttar Pradesh.

ASTHA/Association of Strong Women Alone (ASWA)
$24,000 for general support of this women's organization in Rajasthan composed of over 17,000 low-income widows and separated women who help each other to fight for their rights -- the right to live with dignity, to own land, to access government benefits and to utilize the law in support of their rights.

BHASHA Research and Public Centre
$10,000 for BHASHA’s project to promote the rights of denotified and nomadic tribal communities.

Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
$5,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include organizing people who support themselves by picking through garbage to demand their rights to work without police harassment and in an environment free from toxic materials.

Community Awareness Research and Education Trust (CARE Trust)
$10,000 for CARE Trust’s project to challenge discrimination against poor minority communities in Tamil Nadu devastated by the 2004 tsunami and to promote their economic, social and civil rights.

Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT)
$20,000 for CEHAT’s project to conduct field testing and training on a new sexual assault kit and protocol, and promote its use in Maharashtra, Goa, and Karnataka, as well as at the regional level.

CREA/Tehreek
$7,000 for CREA/Tehreek’s initiative to promote women’s rights grassroots organizing, human rights education, legal work and networking in Uttar Pradesh.

Dynamic Action Group
$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include leadership training for Dalit activists and monitoring, documentation and reporting of human rights violations in Uttar Pradesh.

Elgar
$30,000 for general support of this organization, based in Maharashtra, whose activities include legal aid and community mobilization in support of land/resource/labor rights.

FIRM
$20,000 for general support of this organization, based in Kerala, whose activities promote the rights of sex workers, sexual minorities, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Jan Vikas
$20,000 for support of a resource center in Uttar Pradesh to identify, train, and mentor human rights activists in support of the human rights of marginalized groups, including Muslims, Dalits, and women in Uttar Pradesh.

National Association of Street Vendors (NASVI)
$14,000 for general support of this organization, which promotes the rights of street vendors through human rights campaigns, training, and litigation.

Nisarga
$7,000 for general support of this organization to provide human rights education on land and social rights to poor rural laborers in Andhra Pradesh.

People’s Watch
$40,000 for People’s Watch’s project to fight the practice of torture through public education, training, and campaigns to press for policies that prevent torture in Tamil Nadu ($25,000) and at the national level ($15,000).

Point of View/Sangram
$25,000 for POV/Sangram’s joint project to promote sex workers’ rights through training, popular theater, and public education campaigns.

Safai Karamchari Andolan
$10,000 for Safai Karamchari Andolan’s project to enforce the ban on manual scavenging.

Samarthan
$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include campaigns to defend and promote rights of the poor, including women, children, laborers, tribals, Dalits and nomadic tribes in Maharashtra.

SANGAMA
$30,000 for Sangama’s project to implement public education and legal campaigns at the state (Karnataka) and national levels for sexual minority rights.

Social Action and Research Center (SARC)
$10,000 for general support of this organization working to promote women’s human rights.

Shramajivee Mahila Samity (SMS)
$25,000 for general support of SMS and for its project to mobilize poor communities, provide legal aid, and expand legal protections from violence for women in West Bengal.

Solidarity Center (SC)
$15,000 for Solidarity Center’s project to assist new and emerging community-based groups to develop a rights-based perspective and learn to mobilize poor communities through training in organizing and human rights work in Gujarat and Rajasthan.

Utthan
$15,000 for Utthan’s project to promote women’s economic, social, civil and political rights at the local level in the state of Gujarat.

Vanangana
$10,000 for this organization’s project to mobilize communities and provide legal aid and social support to protect women from violence in remote areas of Uttar Pradesh.

Vidhayak Sansad
$25,000 for Vidhayak Sansad's project to conduct human rights training, civic education, and legal aid: to organise rural poor and to pursue policy reform in support of the rights of tribal and the rural poor in Maharashtra.

Yakshi
$22,000 for support of this organization's project to conduct human rights training and civic education, and to pursue policy reform in support of the rights of tribals at the state (Andhra Pradesh) and national levels.

Grants for 2004

Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives (AALI)

$5,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include public education campaigns and legal aid to end violence against women in Uttar Pradesh.

Ashraya
$2,500 to provide human rights education and training in support of women’s economic, social and cultural rights in North Karnataka on issues such as employment guarantees, food entitlements, divorce and property ownership.

ASTHA/Association of Strong Women Alone (ASWA)

$24,000 for general support of this women's organization of low-income widows and separated women, which provides social and legal support to members as they seek to change policies and practices that marginalize women in Rajasthan.

Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT)

$12,500 to conduct field testing and training on a new sexual assault kit and protocol designed to improve the treatment of victims of sexual violence and the gathering of evidence in such cases, and promote its use in health facilities in India.

Center for Development (CFD)

$5,000 for general support of this organization in Gujarat which promotes the rights of Dalits and Muslims through grassroots organizing, human rights education, and economic programs in areas experiencing communal violence.

Dynamic Action Group (DAG)

$15,000 for general support of this network of approximately forty grassroots Dalit human rights groups in Uttar Pradesh, whose activities include monitoring, documentation and reporting of human rights violations, networking and media work at the local, state and national levels, and leadership training to strengthen women’s participation in human rights advocacy.

Elgar

$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include legal aid and community mobilization in support of land, resource, and labor rights of tribal populations in Maharashtra.

Samarthan

$15,000 to conduct media and legal campaigns in support of the rights of the poor, including women, children, laborers, tribals, and Dalits in Maharashtra on issues such as enforcement of labor laws, access to justice, and human rights abuses involving adult and child bonded laborers.

FIRM

$18,000 to promote the rights of marginalized groups, including sex workers, sexual minorities, and people living with HIV/AIDS, through health and social services, training, media work, as well as public and legal campaigns at the state (Kerala) and national levels.

CREA

$5,000 for support of a new network of young women activists in Uttar Pradesh to conduct human rights education and grassroots organizing to end violence against women and promote women’s economic, social and political rights.

National Association of Street Vendors (NASVI)

$8,000 to promote enforcement of a new national policy that protects the rights of street vendors through grassroots organizing, public education campaigns and pressuring municipal governments to protect street vendors from violence and harassment by police and government authorities.

Nisarga

$7,000 to provide human rights education on land and social rights to rural laborers in Andhra Pradesh.

People’s Watch

$30,000 to continue a public campaign against torture in Tamil Nadu that is generating public attention and dialogue at the national level.

$25,000 to work with organizations in four states to launch a national campaign to raise awareness of the pervasive use and impact of torture; monitor, document and report incidences of illegal detention and torture; and seek justice in specific cases of abuse.

Point of View (POV)

$25,000 for POV/Sangram’s joint project to develop a report on the rights of women sex workers, and conduct training and awareness-raising campaigns on human rights, HIV/AIDS and sex work.

Quarry Workers Development Society (QWDS)

$20,000 for its project to provide human rights education and legal aid to quarry workers and recommend policy reforms in support of labor rights in Tamil Nadu.

SANGAMA

$20,000 to implement public education and legal campaigns at the state (Karnataka) and national levels for sexual minority rights.

Solidarity Center (SC)

$7,500 for support of this organization which provides training in organizing and technical assistance to emerging human rights organizations in Gujarat and Rajasthan that promote the economic rights of the most marginalized populations, namely workers, women and youth who are mostly Dalits, tribals and Muslims.

Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA)

$6,000 to expand its grassroots organizing and legal and media efforts to enforce the national ban on manual scavenging (collection of human waste by Dalit populations).

Shramajivee Mahila Samity (SMS)

$20,000 to support this organizations’s work to promote women’s right to food, right to work, and access to justice in West Bengal through legal campaigns and innovative approaches to community mobilization and conflict resolution.

Vanangana

$10,000 to establish a women’s resource center on violence against women which will provide legal aid mediation, support, and grassroots organizing in support of victims of violence in remote areas of Uttar Pradesh.

Vidhayak Sansad (VS)

$15,000 to conduct human rights training and civic education and to pursue policy reform in support of the rights of tribals and bonded laborers in Maharashtra.

Yakshi

$22,000 to build the capacity of Adivasi activists and groups to document, report and campaign against human rights violations in Andhra Pradesh.

2003

Dynamic Action Group (DAG)

$15,000 in general support of DAG, which investigates and reports on human rights abuses against Dalit communities in Uttar Pradesh. DAG serves as a public platform and organizing tool for almost fifty grassroots Dalit organizations.

Elgar

$15,000 in general support of Elgar, which works with impoverished tribal communities in Maharashtra to access their legal rights, Elgar has mobilized over 2000 laborers to secure their labor rights, filed human rights test cases before state and national courts and human rights commissions, and documented police abuse and the forced displacement of rural communities.

Foundation for Integrated Research in Mental Health (FIRM)

$14,000 for FIRM’s project to document human rights abuses against certain marginalized groups—including sex workers, sexual minorities, people living with HIV/AIDS and mentally challenged people—and to provide legal aid to victims of human rights abuse, to conduct media outreach on such problems, and to seek stronger legal protections for these groups.

Point of View (POV)

$30,000 for POV’s project to develop and disseminate nationally a report on the rights of women sex workers, and to conduct training and advocacy in partnership with twenty nongovernmental and community-based organization on human rights, HIV/AIDS and sex work.

Samarthan

$15,000 for Samarthan’s project to build media and legal pressure to compel the Maharashtra state government to enforce existing labor laws and address human rights violations against adult and child bonded laborers and to provide legal and other assistance in reporting human rights violations.

Sangama

$20,000 for Sangama’s project to launch a campaign in defense of the human rights of sexual minorities by seeking the decriminalization of homosexuality, creating strong networks with other human rights activists, and bringing test cases in local courts asserting the human rights of sexual minorities.

Shramajivee Mahila Samity (SMS)

$15,000 for SMS’s project to mobilize communities in West Bengal, provide legal aid and improve legal protections for women against domestic violence.

Yakshi

$22,000 for Yakshi’s project to build the skills of Adivasi (indigenous tribals) youth in documenting the impact of national policies on the human rights of Adivasis and promoting their rights, challenging caste and tribal discrimination.

Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT)

$25,000 for CEHAT’s project to improve the treatment of sexual assault victims and increase the chances of their attackers being brought to justice by promoting the use of a new sexual assault evidence kit and standard protocol for the collection of medical evidence and treatment of rape victims.

ASTHA/Association of Strong Women Alone (ASWA)

$30,000 for ASTHA’s project to promote the human rights of ‘women alone’—women who are single, widowed or abandoned; roughly 2 million just in Rajasthan—who often are deprived of their property rights by relatives and are vulnerable to physical abuse. ASTHA challenges abusive practices at the state level and mobilizes women locally to secure access to their economic and social rights.

Quarry Workers’ Development Society (QWDS)

$25,000 for QWDS’s project to bring legal cases challenging human rights abuses against quarry workers, to help secure better working conditions and pay, and to develop a cadre of human rights defenders among quarry workers.

People’s Watch

$30,000 for People’s Watch’s project to conduct a public campaign against the use of torture in Tamil Nadu. People’s Watch will increase the monitoring and advocacy activities of local activists, assist victims in seeking redress and press at the national level for stronger protection against torture.