Previous GrantsMexico 2005
$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.
$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.
$25,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include mentoring young 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 at the local, state and national levels.
$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.
$20,000 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.
$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.
$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.
$20,000 for IDEA’s project to promote the right to a healthy environment by providing legal assistance to communities affected by the of pollution the Lerma - Chapala - Santiago – Pacífico Valley.
$25,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include convening human rights organizations, government officials, journalists, academics and public security experts to share best practices on democratic police reform, and building civil society capacity to monitor, analyze and develop concrete proposals for public security reform.
$25,000 for support of the Prodh Center’s Monitoring and Advocacy project, which seeks to ensure respect for human rights by identifying and taking advantage of opportunities to promote justice reform, the rule of law and economic, social and cultural rights.
$20,000 for Promedios’ project to provide training to indigenous communities in Chiapas and Guerrero to use video to document human rights abuses and to use the Internet to access national and international news media and to communicate with international human rights organizations.
$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include the promotion and defense of the rights of indigenous peoples in the state of Guerrero through legal defense, policy advocacy, conflict resolution and human rights education with indigenous organizations and communities.
$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include coordinating a campaign to end forced disappearance in Guerrero and providing technical assistance to small human rights organizations with minimal funding.
$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 the hundreds of unsolved murders of young women in northern Mexico.
$20,000 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.
$5,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting labor rights violations committed against young, indigenous workers and advocating for the full implementation of labor rights protections. 2004Center for Economic and Political Research and Community Action (CIEPAC—Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Políticas de Acción Comunitaria) $18,000 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.
(CAT—Centro de Apoyo al Trabajador ) $20,000 for its project to educate workers in the maquila sector about their labor rights, train them in how to secure those rights, and document violations and abusive corporate practices to present as evidence before national and international courts.
(CEMDA—Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental) $10,000 for CEMDA’s project to complete and disseminate a manual on case law and legal mechanisms for using national and international laws to promote the right to a healthy environment.
2003Workers Support Center (CAT—Centro de Apoyo al Trabajador ) $15,000 in general support of CAT’s work to promote workers’ rights. CAT educates and trains workers on labor rights, helps workers develop the skills to secure their rights, and investigates and documents human rights abuses in the Mexico’s export processing zone factories or maquiladoras.
(Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de las Casas) $20,000 in general support of CDHFBC, whose activities include documentation, education, and legal aid regarding past and current human rights abuses in Chiapas. CDHFBC advocates for legislative reform and public policy in support of indigenous rights.
(CEMDA-- Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental) $25,000 in support of CEMDA’s project to build a formal human rights and environment program. CEMDA will develop a comprehensive manual on case law and legal mechanisms regarding human rights and the environment, conduct training of judges on these issues and pursue legal cases in defense of human rights and the environment. Women’s Center (Centro Mujeres) $20,000 in general support of Centro Mujeres, whose activities include training on women’s rights for public defenders, prosecutors and health professionals; delivery of health services; capacity building for young community leaders; and documentation and policy analysis regarding reproductive and sexual rights and violence against women.
(Red de Defensores Comunitarios por los Derechos Humanos en Chiapas) $20,000 in general support of the Red, which provides legal training and services on human rights issues to indigenous communities in Chiapas and coordinates a network of twenty-four community-based defenders—who represent twelve regions in the state and as many as thirty thousand people—in responding to human rights violations.
(CIEPAC --Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Políticas de Acción Comunitaria) $17,400 in general support of CIEPAC’s activities, which include education and capacity building for indigenous communities regarding land and resource rights and provision of information on the impact of globalization, free trade agreements, and Plan Puebla Panama on indigenous communities in Mexico.
$25,000 to support Elige’s project to provide documentation and policy analysis on young peoples’ reproductive and sexual rights and related human rights violations in rural areas around Tlaxcala, Guanajuato and Mexico City, and to build the capacity of young community leaders on documenting, monitoring and advocating for these rights.
(IDEA—Instituto de Derecho Ambiental) $20,000 in support of IDEA’s project to pursue research, litigation and advocacy in defense of the rights of indigenous and other communities at risk due to environmental degradation.
(INSYDE—Instituto para la Seguridad y la Democracia) $30,000 in in support of an INSyDe project to analyze the level of accountability in cases of documented police abuse.
(Prodh—Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez) $30,000 in support of Centro Prodh’s project to train indigenous lawyers on human rights issues in Oaxaca and Guerrero where there is widespread repression of indigenous people’s rights. Chiapas Media Project (Promedios—Promedios de Comunicación Comunitaria) $20,000 in support of Promedios’ project to construct and equip media centers in Chiapas and Guerrero to enhance the capacity of indigenous communities to document human rights abuses. Tlachinollan Human Rights Center (Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan) $20,000 in general support of THRC, whose activities include documentation, monitoring and pursuit of legal cases on human rights violations against indigenous people in two of seven regions in the state of Guerrero; training on land rights, human rights and conflict resolution; and dialogue within civil society on indigenous rights in Guerrero. Document Actions |
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