2008
Action for Community and Human Development (ACOHD)
$12,000 For ACOHD’s project to promote women’s rights in southeastern Liberia by helping female victims of violence seek justice in the customary and statutory legal systems.
Association of Disabled Females (ADFI)
$15,000 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
$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include building the capacity of rural communities to monitor, document and report environmental rights violations, and pursuing litigation to enforce environmental and human rights laws.
Association of Environmental Lawyers of Liberia
(AELL)/Green Advocates
$36,000 For its project to build a national movement to defend and promote the right to a healthy environment by providing funding and technical support to an environmental justice network comprised of five community-based organizations in south and southeastern Liberia.
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)
$12,000 For general support of this organization, which promotes women’s rights in rural communities in Bong County by educating women about the rape law and helping female victims of violence bring legal charges against their attackers.
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)
$10,000 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)
$15,000 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)
$15,000 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 promoting women’s rights and participation in public life, and facilitating peace-building processes in Sinoe County through human rights training, reporting, and community organizing.
Prisoners Assistance Program (PAP)
$15,000 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)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, which promotes women’s rights in rural Grand Cape Mount County by educating communities and traditional leaders about the dangers of early marriage and gender-based violence.
Zorzor District Women Care (ZODWOCA)
$5,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to promote women’s economic and civil rights and challenge discrimination through rights education, community organizing, and conflict resolution
2007
Action for Community and Human Development /ACOHD
$5,000 For ACOHD’s project to promote women’s rights in southeastern Liberia by helping female victims of violence seek justice in the customary and statutory legal systems.
Association of Disabled Females /ADFI
$10,000 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
$25,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include building the capacity of rural communities to monitor, document and report environmental rights violations, and pursuing litigation to enforce environmental and human rights laws.
Association of Environmental Lawyers of Liberia (AELL)/Green Advocates
$26,000 For its project to build a national movement to defend and promote the right to a healthy environment by providing funding and technical support to an environmental justice network comprised of five community-based organizations in south and southeastern Liberia.
Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia /AFELL
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting public policies that defend the rights of women and children and conducting education on gender-based violence through training workshops, radio programs and public fora.
Community Humanitarian Advocacy Development Organization /COHADO
$7,000 For general support of this organization, which promotes women’s rights in rural communities in Bong County by educating women about the rape law and helping female victims of violence bring legal charges against their attackers.
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.
Justice and Peace Commission /JPC
$10,000 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
$10,000 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
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting women’s rights and participation in public life, and facilitating peace-building processes in Sinoe County through human rights training, reporting, and community organizing.
Prisoners Assistance Program /PAP
$15,000 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
$5,000 For general support of this organization, which promotes women’s rights in rural Grand Cape Mount County by educating communities and traditional leaders about the dangers of early marriage and gender-based violence.
Zorzor District Women Care /ZODWOCA
$5,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to promote women’s economic and civil rights and challenge discrimination through rights education, community organizing, and conflict resolution.
2006
Action for Community and Human Development (ACOHD)
$5,000 for ACOHD’s project to promote women’s rights in southeastern Liberia by helping female victims of violence seek justice in the customary and statutory legal systems.
Association of Disabled Females (ADFI)
$10,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting discrimination and violence against disabled women and children and pressing for concrete changes at the local and national levels to afford greater rights to disabled persons.
Association of Environmental Lawyers of Liberia (AELL)/Green Advocates
$25,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include building the capacity of rural communities to monitor, document and report environmental rights violations, and pursuing litigation to enforce environmental and human rights laws.
Association of Environmental Lawyers of Liberia (AELL)/Green Advocates
$26,000 for its project to build a national movement to defend and promote the right to a healthy environment by providing funding and technical support to an environmental justice network comprised of five community-based organizations in south and southeastern Liberia.
Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL)
$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include conducting legal and media campaigns, training, and civic education on the rights of women, children and indigent persons.
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.
Justice and Peace Commission (JPC)
$10,000 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)
$10,000 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)
$10,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting women’s rights and participation in public life, and facilitating peace building processes in Sinoe County through human rights training, reporting, and community organizing.
Prisoner´s Assistance Program (PAP)
$10,000 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.
Sustainable Development Institute (SDI)
$5,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include providing local communities with the information and tools they need to challenge environmental and human rights violations at the local level.
Zorzor District Women Care (ZODWOCA)
$5,000 for general support of this organization, which seeks to promote women’s economic and civil rights and challenge discrimination through rights education, community organizing, and conflict resolution.
2005
Association of Disabled Females International (ADFI)
$5,000 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
$25,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include building the capacity of rural communities to monitor, document and report environmental rights violations, raising awareness of public sector corruption related to natural resource extraction, and pursuing litigation to enforce environmental and human rights laws.
Association of Environmental Lawyers of Liberia (AELL)/Green Advocates
$26,000 for its project to build a national movement to defend and promote the right to a healthy environment by providing funding and technical support to five community-based organizations in southern Liberia to expand outreach to poor, rural communities, as well as monitor/document/report on human rights violations that can support legal cases and national campaigns.
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, children and indigent persons, including the pursuit of legal cases on behalf of women and children survivors of sexual violence and campaigns to promote the enforcement of women’s inheritance rights.
Flomo Theater Production
$10,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include using popular theater to raise awareness of human rights issues and violations at the community level.
Fore-runners of Children’s Universal Rights for Survival (FOCUS)
$10,000 for its project to conduct human rights education and organizing in southeast Liberia to promote access to justice and to challenge traditional practices which violate human rights.
Foundation for Human Rights and Democracy (FOHRD)
$20,000 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.
Liberia Democracy Watch (LDW)
$25,000 for Liberia Democracy Watch’s project with the Foundation for International Dignity (FIND) to operate a national resource center for human rights organizations.
Movement for Peace and Reconciliation in Liberia (MOPAR)
$5,000 for its project to promote women’s rights by training female community leaders in eastern Liberia on human rights monitoring and documentation and by strengthening community-based women’s organizations to begin to identify specific human rights problems affecting women and develop strategies to address them.
Post-Conflict Reintegration for Development and Empowerment (PRIDE)
$10,000 for general support of this organization, which provides human rights education and counseling for ex-combatants and promotes effective disarmament and reintegration processes.
Sustainable Development Institute (SDI)
$5,000 for general support of this organization in southeast Liberia whose activities include providing local communities with the information and tools they need to challenge environmental and human rights violations at the local level.
Zorzor District Women Care (ZODWOCA)
$5,000 for general support of this organization in northern Liberia whose activities include educating women about the new inheritance law which guarantees women’s property rights, so that they may challenge traditional practices that discriminate against women
2004
Association of Environmental Lawyers of Liberia/Green Advocates (AELL)
$25,000 for Green Advocates’ project to build the capacity of rural communities to monitor, document and report environmental human rights violations, to pursue litigation to hold perpetrators accountable and to enforce environmental and human rights laws.
Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL)
$5,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include legal and media campaigns, training, and civic education on the rights of women, children and indigent persons.
Center for the Protection of Human Rights (CPHR)
$10,000 for the Center’s project to defend the rights of indigent, internally displaced persons being held in detention without charge or trial in three counties of Liberia (Montserrado, Margibi and Grand Bassa).
Flomo Theater Production
$10,000 for general support of this organization whose work promotes awareness of human rights issues and violations at the community level through popular theater.
Foundation for Human Rights and Democracy (FOHRD)
$20,000 for FOHRD’s 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 and peace building and reconstruction efforts.
Liberia Democracy Watch (LDW)
$25,000 for Liberia Democracy Watch’s collaborative project with the Foundation for International Dignity (FIND) to operate a national resource center for human rights organizations.
Liberia Institute of Journalism (LIJ)
$10,000 for this organization’s human rights training program for broadcast journalists at the community level in rural areas. LIJ networks with journalists in the Mano River region and seeks to foster public debate and discussion on human rights issues.
National Human Rights Centre of Liberia (NHRCL)
$20,000 for NHRCL’s project to provide human rights training to rural community-based organizations and national human rights organizations in Liberia. NHRCL, a consortium of nine groups committed to the protection and promotion of the fundamental rights and civil liberties of Liberians, seeks to foster a stable network for monitoring human rights throughout the country.
Post-Conflict Reintegration for Development and Empowerment (PRIDE)
$10,000 for this organization’s project to set up an office in Liberia, and to provide training, rights education and counseling for ex-combatants and technical assistance to NGOs on effective disarmament and reintegration of ex-combatants.
2003
Association of Environmental Lawyers of Liberia/Green Advocates (AELL)
$20,000 to support Green Advocates’ project to develop the capacity of three rural communities to monitor, document and publicize corporate and government practices that cause human rights abuse and environmental degradation and to represent affected communities in legal actions to ensure enforcement of Liberia’s laws protecting rights and the environment.
Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL)
$15,000 in general support of AFELL, which runs a legal clinic for victims of sexual and other gender-based violence, works with security personnel and camp managers to protect women refugees from violence, and is pressing for better legal protection of women’s rights.
Center for the Protection of Human Rights
$10,000 to support the Center’s legal aid program, which challenges the prolonged and wrongful detention of citizens. The Center provides legal assistance to indigent and internally displaced persons being held in detention without charge or trial in three counties of Liberia (Montserrado, Margibi and Grand Bassa).
Liberia Institute of Journalism (LIJ)
$10,000 to support LIJ’s project to promote freedom of expression by training broadcast journalists at the community level in northeastern and southeastern Liberia, creating regional networks among journalists in West Africa, and encouraging public debate and discussion on human rights issues.
National Human Rights Centre of Liberia (NHRCL)
$15,000 to support NHRCL’s project to provide training on human rights documentation and reporting to rural, community-based (in Bomi, Bong and Nimba counties) and national human rights organizations in Liberia. NHRCL is a consortium of nine groups that assists members and others to develop their capacities for human rights fact-finding, advocacy, and victim support.
Press Union of Liberia (PUL)
$10,000 to support PUL’s project to establish and operate the country’s alternate non-profit, independent printing press.
