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.
