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Grants for 2008

Pakistan


Democratic Commission on Human Development (DCHD) 
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include training and documentation/dissemination of human rights issues and abuses at the community level.


Institute for Development Studies and Practices (IDSP)
$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include education, training and community outreach to promote civic participation and women’s economic and social rights in Balochistan.                                                                                                                                                                 


Interactive Resource Center (IRC)
$20,000 For IRC’s initiative to help communities produce documentaries and popular theater performances across the country to document human rights problems and foster dialogues and campaigns to resolve them. 


Labor Education Foundation
$15,000 For its project to support Bhatta Mazdoor Union, whose activities include promoting the rights of Pakistan’s 1.8 million brick kiln workers, who as bonded laborers are denied the most basic labor rights.


MAUJ
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting the rights of local communities that have been forcibly displaced by large infrastructure development projects.


Noor Education Trust (NET)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal aid, safe shelter and psycho-social services to women experiencing violence in the North West Frontier Province. 


Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, based in Sindh province, which seeks to promote the rights and welfare of fisher folk communities through human rights education, grassroots organizing and policy reform.


Panah Trust
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal, safe shelter and psycho-social services to women experiencing violence in Sindh Province, and promoting women’s access to justice.


Pirbhat Women Development Society
$5,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal assistance to women victims of violence, as well as awareness-raising campaigns on human rights and women’s rights.


Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA)
$20,000 For general support of this organization which provides training and mentoring to grow and strengthen rural women’s networks to challenge violence and promote the rights to education, health, and livelihoods.


Vision  
$30,000 For general support of this organization which promotes the rights and welfare of sexual minorities, sex workers, children, and other marginalized groups through outreach, crisis intervention, and litigation.


War Against Rape (WAR)
$15,000 For general support of this organization whose activities include providing legal aid and crisis intervention support to survivors of domestic violence and rape, and public campaigns to stop violence against women.                           

 

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