All Rights for All Human Rights Network (Red de Organizaciones de Derechos Humanos “Todos los Derechos para Todas y Todos”)
$30,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include providing technical assistance to increase the effectiveness of its fifty-two member organizations based throughout the country and feeding the local concerns and proposals of its members into the national policymaking debate to improve the human rights situation.
Association against Torture (ACAT)
$23,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include pressing for policies that prevent torture within the judicial system and for better conditions for women in detention.
Border Justice (Frontera con Justicia)
$15,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting human rights abuses committed by the police and providing legal aid to migrants in the northern state of Coahuila on the U.S. – Mexico border.
Center for Economic and Political Research and Community Action (CIEPAC)
$30,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include providing information and organizing tools to poor, indigenous communities in Chiapas whose basic rights to subsistence and use of natural resources are threatened by corporate-led globalization and by development projects promoted by international financial institutions.
Chiapas Community Defenders Network (CCDN)
$30,000 for its project to provide legal training to community-based, indigenous human rights defenders who work to facilitate access to justice for their communities and challenge discriminatory judicial practices.
Choose (Elige)
$30,000 for Elige’s project to promote youth sexual and reproductive rights in Mexico City by educating young people about their rights and pressing city agencies and government to guarantee access to sexual and reproductive health services.
Collective for Family Health (CIFAM)
$23,000 for CIFAM’s project to promote youth leadership and participation in the defense of their sexual and reproductive rights, including access to information and health care services, in marginalized urban and rural communities in Chiapas.
Community Communication Media (Promedios)
$30,000 for Promedios’ project to provide training to indigenous communities to use video to document human rights abuses and to bring national and international attention to their struggles.
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Program (PRODESC)
$15,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal support to organizations in Puebla to challenge labor rights abuses before national and international courts.
Forum for Sustainable Development (Foro para el Desarrollo Sustenable)
$23,000 for the Forum’s project to promote indigenous peoples’ land and enviromental rights in Chiapas by strengthening local control of natural resources and helping communities to challenge land privatization programs that threaten their ability to earn their livelihoods through the sustainable use of natural resources.
Fray Bartolomé Human Rights Center
$30,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include documentation, education and legal aid to address past and current human rights abuses in Chiapas, as well as research for and promotion of public policies that respect indigenous rights.
Fray Matías de Córdova Human Rights Center
$8,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting human rights abuses and providing legal aid to Central American migrants in the Mexico – Guatemala border region.
Guerrero Human Rights Network
$30,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting human rights in the state of Guerrero by coordinating the campaigns and activities of its members and providing technical assistance to small human rights organizations that operate with minimal funding.
Human and Labor Rights Commission of the Tehuacán Valley
$8,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting labor rights by documenting abuses committed against young, indigenous workers in the state of Puebla.
Indigenous People’s Human Rights and Assistance Center (CEDHAPI)
$23,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting access to justice for indigenous communities by providing legal aid to victims of human rights abuses and coordinating a network of indigenous lawyers in Oaxaca.
Institute for Environmental Law (IDEA)
$30,000 for IDEA’s project to promote the right to a healthy environment by providing legal assistance to communities affected by the pollution of Lake Chapala and to activists targeted for harassment and violence for refusing to be displaced by the construction of hydroelectric dams.
Institute for Security and Democracy (INSyDE)
$38,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include convening human rights organizations, government officials and public security experts to share best practices on police reform, and building civil society capacity to monitor, analyze and develop concrete proposals for public security reform.
Jalisco Indigenous Support Association (AJAGI)
$15,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting the land rights of indigenous Huichol communities in southwestern Mexico by pressing for the establishment of an indigenous-controlled protected reserve.
Justice for Our Daughters (Justicia para Nuestras Hijas)
$23,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal aid to the families of victims of gender-based violence in Chihuahua, and working to raise the national and international profile of this human rights crisis.
Mexican Environmental Law Center (CEMDA)
$30,000 for CEMDA’s project to bring national and international legal cases to promote the right to a healthy environment, and to provide human rights organizations and local communities with training in how to use environmental law to defend human rights.
Prodh Human Rights Center (PRODH -- Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez)
$15,000 for support of the Prodh Center’s Monitoring and Advocacy project, which documents and reports human rights abuses and develops policy proposals for reform.
Promoting Women’s Economic and Social Rights (PROCADESC)
$15,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include educating women from poor urban and rural areas in Coahuila about their economic rights and helping them to press for government policies that promote those rights.
Sinaloa Civic Front (Frente Cívico Sinaloense)
$15,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include monitoring prison conditions, documenting human rights abuses committed by the police, and pressing for public policies that would prevent the use of torture in the violence-ridden state of Sinaloa.
Southeastern People’s Land Association (Maderas del Pueblo del Sureste)
$15,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting the rights of indigenous and farming communities to control and manage the land and natural resources on which they depend for their livelihoods by providing them with legal and technical support.
Tlachinollan Human Rights Center (Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña "Tlachinollan")
$30,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting the human rights of indigenous peoples in the state of Guerrero by providing legal aid to victims of abuse, promoting state policies that respect and defend human rights, mobilizing international support for the rights of indigenous peoples, and conducting human rights education with indigenous communities and organizations.
Women’s Center (Centro Mujeres)
$38,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include mentoring young female community leaders, providing training on health rights for service providers and government representatives, and advocating for government policies that protect and promote reproductive and sexual rights.
Workers Support Center (CAT-- Centro de Apoyo al Trabajador)
$30,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include educating workers in the maquila sector about their labor rights, training them in how to secure those rights, and documenting government violations and abusive corporate practices to present as evidence before national and international courts.
