Asociación Jaliscience de Apoyo a Grupos Indígenas /AJAGI(Jalisco Indigenous Support Association)
$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 nature reserve.
Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Polítcas de Acción Comunitaria/ CIEPAC (Center for Economic and Political Research and Community Action)
$20,000 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 development projects promoted by international financial institutions.
Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan (Tlachinollan Human Rights Center)
$25,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting and prosecuting legal cases on human rights violations against indigenous people in the state of Guerrero and conducting workshops for indigenous communities on human rights and conflict resolution.
Centro de los Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres (Center for Women’s Rights)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting women’s rights in the northern state of Chihuahua by providing legal aid to female victims of violence and campaigning for state policies that increase women’s access to justice.
Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Fray Bartolomé Human Rights Center)
$20,000 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.
Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Matías de Córdova (Fray Matías de Córdova Human Rights Center)
$10,000 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.
Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental /CEMDA (Mexican Environmental Law Center)
$20,000 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.
Colectivo Integral para la Atención de la Familia /CIFAM (Collective for Family Health)
$15,000 For CIFAM’s project to promote youth sexual and reproductive rights, including access to information and health care services, for marginalized urban and rural communities in Chiapas.
Centro de Apoyo al Trabajador /CAT (Workers Support Center)
$20,000 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.
Centro Mujeres (Women’s Center)
$25,000 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 pressing for government policies that promote reproductive and sexual rights.
Comisión de Derechos Humanos y Laborales del Valle de Tehuacán (Human and Labor Rights Commission of the Tehuacán Valley)
$10,000 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.
Elige (Choose)
$20,000 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.
Foro para el Desarrollo Sustenable (Forum for Sustainable Development)
$20,000 For the Forum’s project to promote land and enviromental rights in Chiapas by helping indigenous communities to challenge land privatization and development projects that threaten their ability to earn their livelihoods through the sustainable use of natural resources.
Frente Cívico Sinaloense (Sinaloa Civic Front)
$10,000 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.
Humanidad sin Fronteras (Humanity without Borders)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting human rights abuses committed by the police and promoting the rights of migrants in the northern state of Coahuila.
Instituto del Derecho Ambiental—IDEA (Institute for Environmental Law)
$20,000 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.
Instituto para la Seguridad y la Democracia /INSYDE (Institute for Security and Democracy)
$25,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include challenging police abuse and corruption by building civil society capacity to monitor, analyze and develop concrete proposals for public security reform.
Justicia para Nuestras Hijas (Justice for Our Daughters)
$15,000 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.
Maderas del Pueblo del Sureste (Southeastern People’s Land Association)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting indigenous rights by helping communities to challenge development projects that threaten to displace communities and destroy the natural resources on which they depend for their livelihoods.
Mexico Solidarity Network
$20,000 For Mexico Solidarity Network’s project to support Red de Defensores Comunitarios de Chiapas (Chiapas Community Defenders Network), a human rights organization based in Chiapas, Mexico that provides legal training to community-based, indigenous human rights defenders who work to facilitate access to justice for their communities and challenge discriminatory judicial practices.
Promedios (Community Communication Media)
$20,000 For Promedios’ project to provide training to indigenous communities in Chiapas to use video to document human rights abuses and to bring national and international attention to their struggles.
Proyecto de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales /PRODESC (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Program)
$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.
Red Guerrerense de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos (Guerrero Human Rights Network)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include challenging gender-based violence, forced disappearance and violations of indigenous rights in the state of Guerrero.
Red de Comunicadores Boca de Polen (Boca de Polén Communicators Network)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include educating indigenous communities about threats to their lands posed by infrastructure development projects and promoting women’s rights by pressing traditional leaders to hold perpetrators of violence against women accountable.
Red de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos “Todos los Derechos para Todos y Todas” (All Rights for All Humans Rights Network)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include building the capacity of its fifty-seven member organizations based throughout the country and feeding the local concerns and proposals of its members into the national policymaking debate.
