2011 Grants

Association for Behavior and Knowledge Transformation (ABKT)

$10,000 For general support of this Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-based organization, whose activities include human rights education and campaigns to defend women's political and economic rights

Green Rural Development Organization (GRDO)

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include educating and mobilizing brick kiln and agricultural workers, public protests, and advocacy to fight for their labor rights in Sindh province.

Human Development Organization (HDO)

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documentation, monitoring, and advocacy to combat the practice of torture and protect prisoners' rights

Insan Dost Association (IDA)

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include educating and mobilizing brick kiln workers to abolish the practice of bonded labor in parts of Punjab province.

Institute for Development Studies and Practices (IDSP)

$40,000 For $25,000 in general support of this organization, whose activities include education, training, and community outreach to promote civic participation and human rights in Balochistan; $10,000 to support its human rights fellowships program; and $5,000 for its capacity-building subgrant

Interactive Resource Centre (IRC)

$40,000 For IRC's project 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 -- $20,000; and for its Right to Safe Drinking Water project in collaboration with Jaag Theatre Group (Bhawalnagar), Multan Theatre Group (Multan) and Shujag Theatre Group (Johi) -- $15,000

Justice Project Pakistan (JPP)

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include strategic litigation and legal aid for capital defendants and victims of torture in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir.

Labour Education Foundation (LEF)

$20,000 For LEF's project to promote 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 advocacy, legal action, and educating and mobilizing local communities whose land, resources, and livelihoods are threatened and those forcibly displaced by large development projects

Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF)

$40,000 For $30,000 in general support of this organization, whose activities include defending the rights of fisherfolk communities through human rights advocacy, grassroots organizing, and policy reform and $10,000 for its capacity-building subgrants

Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA)

$22,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing training and mentoring to rural women's groups to challenge violence and promote their rights to education, health, and livelihoods

Roshni Research and Development Welfare Organization (Roshni)

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include investigation, research, documentation, and advocacy for the rights of missing and exploited children and marginalized religious minorities in Karachi

Simorgh Women's Resource and Publication Centre (Simorgh)

$10,000 For Simorgh's project to conduct action research on unmarried, divorced, or abandoned women in Pakistan in order to recognize and protect their human rights

Sustainable Development Foundation (SDF)

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include advocacy and educating and mobilizing communities of herdsmen, fisherfolk, and farmers to protect the natural resources on which they depend for their livelihoods in eastern Sindh

Upgrade Minorities for Integrated Development (UMID)

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include community mobilization and advocacy for the rights of religious minorities in Sindh province

VISION

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include defending the rights and welfare of sexual minorities, sex workers, children, and other religious minorities through outreach, crisis intervention, and litigation

Women Welfare and Development Association (WADA)

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include educating and organizing female home-based and factory based workers in Karachi to protect their labor and human rights