Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives (AALI)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights documentation, education, and campaigns to promote the rights of poor and minority women in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Area Networking And Development Initiatives (ANANDI)
$22,500 For general support of this organization, whose activities include educating and empowering rural poor tribal women in Gujarat to become leaders in their communities and promote their civil and economic rights.
ASTHA/Association of Strong Women Alone (ASWA)
$36,000 For general support of this organization, which provides social services and legal aid, and conducts grassroots organizing to support the rights of “women alone” in Rajasthan.
BHASHA Research and Public Center
$10,000 For BHASHA’s project to promote the rights of denotified and nomadic tribals (DNT) through policy reform, documentation of human rights abuses, and building a DNT rights network across the country.
Community Awareness Research and Education Trust (CARE-T)
$15,000 For CARE Trust’s project in Tamil Nadu to challenge discrimination against women-headed households, salt pan workers, fishing laborers, and other poor people in relief and rehabilitation programs for communities devastated by the 2004 tsunami, and to promote their economic, social and civil rights.
Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT)
$30,000 For CEHAT’s project on creating awareness about the role of healthcare providers in responding to sexual violence, and campaigns and training to promote use of standardized sexual assault care and evidence kits in public health facilities in Maharashtra as well as the national level.
Centre for Rural Studies and Development (CRSD)
$22,500 For general support of this organization in Andhra Pradesh, whose activities include supporting the efforts of the rural poor to organize and demand their rights to land, education, and to live in a society free of violence.
DISHA
$22,500 For general support of this organization, based in Gujarat, which promotes the rights of the rural poor—primarily tribals—through human rights training, grassroots organizing, and policy reform.
Dynamic Action Group
$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include legal/human rights training, particularly for women activists; documentation of human rights violations; legal action, and campaigns to promote Dalit rights in Uttar Pradesh.
Elgar
$45,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include legal aid, a thriving women’s credit cooperative, and grassroots organizing to promote the land/resource/labor rights of thousands of tribals and other rural poor in Maharashtra.
FIRM
$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities promote the rights of sex workers, sexual minorities, and people living with HIV/AIDS in Kerala through legal and media campaigns, health services and crisis intervention, and grassroots organizing to mentor community-based groups to challenge human rights abuses.
Jan Vikas
$30,000 For this organization’s project to identify, train, and mentor human rights activists in Uttar Pradesh in support of the human rights of marginalized groups, including Muslims, Dalits, and women.
Mahila Jagran Kendra (MJK)
$7,500 For general support of this organization, whose activities include legal aid public campaigns, and organizing at grassroots level to challenge violence against women and promote the civil, political, and economic rights of women in Bihar.
National Association of Street Vendors (NASVI)
$30,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to challenge regular eviction, pervasive violence and harassment against street vendors through policy, media campaigns, grassroots organizing, and litigation.
People’s Watch
$45,000 For People’s Watch’s project to fight the practice of torture in the Northeast and other states across India through human rights education, legal training, and campaigns for policy reform.
Point of View
$20,000 For POV/Sangram’s joint initiative to promote sex workers’ rights through training, popular theater, and public education campaigns and foster collaboration between the women’s rights and sex worker rights movements in India.
Pratyay Gender Trust
$7,500 For general support of this organization, which promotes the rights of people of marginalized sexualities and gender identities in West Bengal, including access to information and health care services, thorough documentation of human rights abuses, crisis intervention, and local campaigns to challenge violence and discrimination.
Safai Karamchari Andolan (SKA)
$6,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include pressing for enforcement of the national ban on manual scavenging (whereby particular Dalit castes collect and dispose of human excreta).
Samarthan
$30,000 For general support of this organization, that undertakes campaigns for the rights of the poor, including women, children, laborers, tribals, Dalits, and nomadic tribes in Maharashtra.
SANGAMA
$45,000 For Sangama’s project to implement public education campaigns at the state (Karnataka) and national levels for sexual minority rights and foster a growing movement of sexuality rights activists in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala.
Sampada Grameen Mahila Sanstha (SANGRAM)
$15,000 For Sangram’s project, to combat gender-based violence affecting tribal women in the Nashik district of Maharashtra.
Social Action Research Center (SARC)
$15,000 For general support of this organization working to promote women’s and children’s rights in eastern Uttar Pradesh through human rights education, grassroots organizing, and legal action.
Subhi Association for Women with Disabilities (AWWD)
$7,500 For the general support of this organization, based in West Bengal, working towards empowerment and mainstreaming of disabled girls and women to promote their rights for a meaningful, quality life with self-pride and dignity.
Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) Trust
$22,500 For this organization’s efforts to challenge state-sponsored harassment of women in Gujarat.
Shramajivee Mahila Samity (SMS)
$37,500 For general support of SMS, based in West Bengal, whose activities include mobilizing tea plantation workers to defend their labor rights, strengthening legal protections for women from violence, and pressing for state level reforms to protect the rights and welfare of millions of unorganized sector workers.
Sharmajivi Mahila Smity (SMS) - Ekal Nari Sangathan
$15,000 For SMS’s project to establish the Association of Strong Women Alone (Ekal Nari Sangathan) to promote the property, land and labor rights of widows and single women in the state of Jharkhand.
Utthan
$22,500 For Utthan’s project to promote women’s socio-economic, civil and political rights in four districts in Gujarat by strengthening the rights of women to sustainable livelihoods, and access and management of water and other natural resources, participation in governance, and lives free from violence.
Vanangana
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include community mobilizing, legal aid and social support to enable women and youth to access their basic human right to a life free of violence.
Vidhayak Sansad
$37,500 For Vidhayak Sansad’s project to conduct human rights training, civic education, and legal aid, and to pursue policy reform in support of the rights of tribals and bonded laborers.
Vikalp
$22,500 For general support of this organization, which promotes the rights of women in Gujarat through grassroots campaigns, social action groups, economic programs, and sexual minorities’ public interest litigation.
Yakshi
$60,000 For Yakshi’s project to conduct human rights training and civic education for Adivasi youth and women, foster networks of community resource groups at the local and state (Andhra Pradesh) levels, and promote legislative reform protecting tribal rights to land and livelihoods.
