Previous GrantsIndia 2005Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives (AALI)
2004
$5,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include public education campaigns and legal aid to end violence against women in Uttar Pradesh.
$24,000 for general support of this women's organization of low-income widows and separated women, which provides social and legal support to members as they seek to change policies and practices that marginalize women in Rajasthan.
$12,500 to conduct field testing and training on a new sexual assault kit and protocol designed to improve the treatment of victims of sexual violence and the gathering of evidence in such cases, and promote its use in health facilities in India.
$5,000 for general support of this organization in Gujarat which promotes the rights of Dalits and Muslims through grassroots organizing, human rights education, and economic programs in areas experiencing communal violence.
$15,000 for general support of this network of approximately forty grassroots Dalit human rights groups in Uttar Pradesh, whose activities include monitoring, documentation and reporting of human rights violations, networking and media work at the local, state and national levels, and leadership training to strengthen women’s participation in human rights advocacy.
$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include legal aid and community mobilization in support of land, resource, and labor rights of tribal populations in Maharashtra.
$15,000 to conduct media and legal campaigns in support of the rights of the poor, including women, children, laborers, tribals, and Dalits in Maharashtra on issues such as enforcement of labor laws, access to justice, and human rights abuses involving adult and child bonded laborers.
$18,000 to promote the rights of marginalized groups, including sex workers, sexual minorities, and people living with HIV/AIDS, through health and social services, training, media work, as well as public and legal campaigns at the state (Kerala) and national levels.
$5,000 for support of a new network of young women activists in Uttar Pradesh to conduct human rights education and grassroots organizing to end violence against women and promote women’s economic, social and political rights.
$8,000 to promote enforcement of a new national policy that protects the rights of street vendors through grassroots organizing, public education campaigns and pressuring municipal governments to protect street vendors from violence and harassment by police and government authorities.
$7,000 to provide human rights education on land and social rights to rural laborers in Andhra Pradesh.
$30,000 to continue a public campaign against torture in Tamil Nadu that is generating public attention and dialogue at the national level. $25,000 to work with organizations in four states to launch a national campaign to raise awareness of the pervasive use and impact of torture; monitor, document and report incidences of illegal detention and torture; and seek justice in specific cases of abuse.
$25,000 for POV/Sangram’s joint project to develop a report on the rights of women sex workers, and conduct training and awareness-raising campaigns on human rights, HIV/AIDS and sex work.
$20,000 for its project to provide human rights education and legal aid to quarry workers and recommend policy reforms in support of labor rights in Tamil Nadu.
$20,000 to implement public education and legal campaigns at the state (Karnataka) and national levels for sexual minority rights.
$7,500 for support of this organization which provides training in organizing and technical assistance to emerging human rights organizations in Gujarat and Rajasthan that promote the economic rights of the most marginalized populations, namely workers, women and youth who are mostly Dalits, tribals and Muslims.
$6,000 to expand its grassroots organizing and legal and media efforts to enforce the national ban on manual scavenging (collection of human waste by Dalit populations).
$20,000 to support this organizations’s work to promote women’s right to food, right to work, and access to justice in West Bengal through legal campaigns and innovative approaches to community mobilization and conflict resolution.
$10,000 to establish a women’s resource center on violence against women which will provide legal aid mediation, support, and grassroots organizing in support of victims of violence in remote areas of Uttar Pradesh.
$15,000 to conduct human rights training and civic education and to pursue policy reform in support of the rights of tribals and bonded laborers in Maharashtra.
$22,000 to build the capacity of Adivasi activists and groups to document, report and campaign against human rights violations in Andhra Pradesh.
2003Dynamic Action Group (DAG) $15,000 in general support of DAG, which investigates and reports on human rights abuses against Dalit communities in Uttar Pradesh. DAG serves as a public platform and organizing tool for almost fifty grassroots Dalit organizations.
$15,000 in general support of Elgar, which works with impoverished tribal communities in Maharashtra to access their legal rights, Elgar has mobilized over 2000 laborers to secure their labor rights, filed human rights test cases before state and national courts and human rights commissions, and documented police abuse and the forced displacement of rural communities.
$14,000 for FIRM’s project to document human rights abuses against certain marginalized groups—including sex workers, sexual minorities, people living with HIV/AIDS and mentally challenged people—and to provide legal aid to victims of human rights abuse, to conduct media outreach on such problems, and to seek stronger legal protections for these groups.
$30,000 for POV’s project to develop and disseminate nationally a report on the rights of women sex workers, and to conduct training and advocacy in partnership with twenty nongovernmental and community-based organization on human rights, HIV/AIDS and sex work.
$15,000 for Samarthan’s project to build media and legal pressure to compel the Maharashtra state government to enforce existing labor laws and address human rights violations against adult and child bonded laborers and to provide legal and other assistance in reporting human rights violations.
$20,000 for Sangama’s project to launch a campaign in defense of the human rights of sexual minorities by seeking the decriminalization of homosexuality, creating strong networks with other human rights activists, and bringing test cases in local courts asserting the human rights of sexual minorities.
$15,000 for SMS’s project to mobilize communities in West Bengal, provide legal aid and improve legal protections for women against domestic violence.
$22,000 for Yakshi’s project to build the skills of Adivasi (indigenous tribals) youth in documenting the impact of national policies on the human rights of Adivasis and promoting their rights, challenging caste and tribal discrimination.
$25,000 for CEHAT’s project to improve the treatment of sexual assault victims and increase the chances of their attackers being brought to justice by promoting the use of a new sexual assault evidence kit and standard protocol for the collection of medical evidence and treatment of rape victims.
$30,000 for ASTHA’s project to promote the human rights of ‘women alone’—women who are single, widowed or abandoned; roughly 2 million just in Rajasthan—who often are deprived of their property rights by relatives and are vulnerable to physical abuse. ASTHA challenges abusive practices at the state level and mobilizes women locally to secure access to their economic and social rights.
$25,000 for QWDS’s project to bring legal cases challenging human rights abuses against quarry workers, to help secure better working conditions and pay, and to develop a cadre of human rights defenders among quarry workers.
$30,000 for People’s Watch’s project to conduct a public campaign against the use of torture in Tamil Nadu. People’s Watch will increase the monitoring and advocacy activities of local activists, assist victims in seeking redress and press at the national level for stronger protection against torture. Document Actions |
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