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.
