Action for Community and Human Development (ACOHD)
$15,000 For general support for this organization, whose activities include helping female victims of violence seek justice in the customary and statutory legal systems in remote southeastern Libera.
Association of Disabled Females (ADFI)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting discrimination and violence against disabled women and children, publicizing such abuses, and pressing for concrete changes at the local and national levels to afford disabled persons greater rights.
Association of Environmental Lawyers of Liberia
(AELL)/Green Advocates
$66,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include pursuing litigation to enforce environmental and human rights laws, and for AELL’s project to build the capacity of rural communities across the country to monitor, document and report environmental rights violations.
Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include legal and media campaigns, training, and civic education on the rights of women and children.
Community Humanitarian Advocacy Development Organization (COHADO)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include educating women about the rape law and helping female victims of violence bring legal charges against their attackers in Bong County.
Foundation for Human Rights and Democracy (FOHRD)
$25,000 For its project to highlight corruption and its impact on human rights, raise awareness among policymakers and the public about these issues, and propose reforms in the management of national resources, peace building and reconstruction efforts.
Forestry, Logging and Industrial Workers Movement for Labor Justice (MOLAJ)
$15,000 For MOLAJ’s project to promote labor rights of workers in extractive industries by educating logging and mining workers about their rights and pressing the Liberian government to promote labor rights in concession agreements with multinational corporations.
Justice and Peace Commission (JPC)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing documentation of human rights abuses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, training paralegals to promote peaceful conflict resolution, and providing legal aid to torture survivors in rural areas.
Liberia Democracy Watch (LDW)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting public policies that protect human rights and providing civic education to rural communities to help them hold the government accountable for fighting corruption.
Movement for Peace and Reconciliation in Liberia (MOPAR)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include helping female victims of violence seek justice and facilitating peace-building processes in Sinoe County through human rights training, reporting, and community organizing.
Rescue Alternatives Liberia (RAL)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include monitoring prison conditions in Monrovia and in rural areas to document human rights abuses and campaigning for government policies that would prevent torture.
Women and Children Advocacy (WOCAD)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include educating communities and traditional leaders about the dangers of early marriage and gender-based violence.
Zorzor District Women Care (ZODWOCA)
$12,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include educating women, local leaders and customary and statutory court officials about women’s rights to inheritance and to live free from violence in rural, northern Liberia.
