Grants for 2005
Award
$5,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include vocational training, literacy/ income generating programs, human rights education and grassroots organizing among poor rural women and the disadvantaged rural population in Punjab-Pakistan.
Democratic Commission on Human Development (DCHD)
$20,000 for general support of this organization, which is providing human rights education and training to local activists and launching human rights campaigns at the local, national, and international levels.
Institute for Development Studies and Practices (IDSP)
$30,000 for IDSP’s project to provide training and community outreach to promote civic participation and women’s economic and social rights in Balochistan.
Interactive Resource Center (IRC)
$20,000 for IRC’s project to raise awareness of human rights through the media by helping communities produce documentaries and stage theater productions to document local human rights problems and foster community dialogues and campaigns to resolve them.
Noor Education Trust (NET)
$10,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal aid, safe shelter and psycho-social services to women experiencing violence in the North West Frontier Province.
Panah Trust
$10,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal aid, safe shelter and psycho-social services to women experiencing violence in Sindh Province.
Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA)
$20,000 for general support of this organization whose activities include human rights training and outreach, creating a rural advocacy network, and fostering collaboration between rural/urban human rights organizations.
Soofi Sanchal Sarmast Welfare Association (SSSWA)
$5,000 for general support of this organization whose activities include reproductive health education/services and informal education classes for women and girls, formation of village/community-based organizations to support women’s development and to combat violence against women, and rights-based education.
Vision
$30,000 for general support of this organization which seeks to promote the rights and welfare of marginalized groups in South Asia, namely sexual minorities, sex workers and children, and for its projects to build the capacity of similar organizations to defend human rights and establish a lawyer’s collective to promote children’s rights.
Working Women Organization (WWO)
$10,000 for general support of this organization which mobilizes women to promote their rights in the work place.
Grants for 2004
Democratic Commission on Human Development (DCHD)
$20,000 for general support of this organization, which works to train community-based human rights activists as well as to document human rights abuses and disseminate their findings.
Institute for Development Studies and Practices (IDSP)
$16,000 for this organization based in Quetta, Balochistan for programs to support women’s human rights with specific attention to the Khuzdar district.
Interactive Resource Center (IRC)
$20,000 to establish a center to build the capacity of community-based groups to promote human rights through the media.
Potohar Organization for Development Advocay (PODA)
$10,000 to do human rights training and outreach, create a rural network, and foster collaboration between rural/urban human rights organizations.
Vision $20,000 for support of this organization, whose activities include providing social, legal, and health services to sex workers, HIV prevention education, combating the trafficking of women and children, and capacity-building of similarly-focused human rights organizations in South Asia.
Working Women Organization (WWO)
$20,000 for general support of this organization which works to protect the rights of women workers. WWO works to provide women workers with information about their fundamental human rights and to mobilize them to seek protection of their civic and labour rights
Grants for 2003
Democratic Commission on Human Development (DCHD)
$20,000 in general support of DCHD, which works at the community level to increase awareness of human rights protections and to build advocates’ skills to monitor human rights problems and to press for solutions. DCHD also documents and reports on human rights abuses for national and international dissemination.
Vision
$16,000 in support of Vision, which promotes HIV prevention and health rights, provides social and legal support to sexual minorities and sex workers in Pakistan, combats trafficking of women and children, and seeks to foster a regional network of similar organizations across South Asia.
Working Women Organization (WWO)
$20,000 in general support of WWO, which protects and promotes the human rights of working women in cities across Pakistan. WWO works to combat sex discrimination in the workplace and to improve the treatment of women working in a wide range of sectors—industrial, agricultural, service and home-based.
