AWARD
$7,500 For AWARD’s project to conduct grassroots organizing and provide training on labor rights to farm workers, particularly women, in Punjab.
Bhatta Mazdoor Union
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting the rights of brick kiln workers and challenging the pervasive practice of bonded labor.
Democratic Commission on Human Development (DCHD)
$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights education, training of activists, and documentation of human rights issues and abuses at the community, provincial, and national levels.
Institute for Development Studies and Practices (IDSP)
$45,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing training and community outreach to promote civic participation and women’s economic and social rights in Balochistan.
Interactive Resource Center (IRC)
$30,000 For IRC’s project to help poor communities produce documentaries and interactive theater performances to document human rights problems and to foster public dialogue and community campaigns to challenge abuses.
MAUJ
$15,000 For general support of this organization, which helps local communities that have been forcibly displaced by large infrastructure development projects to defend their rights, resources and livelihoods.
Noor Education Trust (NET)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing desperately-needed legal aid, safe shelter and psycho-social services to women experiencing violence in the North West Frontier Province.
Panah Trust
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal aid, safe shelter and psycho-social services to women experiencing violence in Pakistan.
Pirbhat Women Development Society
$7,500 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal assistance to women victims of violence, as well as leading awareness-raising campaigns on human rights and women’s rights in Sindh province.
Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA)
$30,000 For general support of this organization, based in Potohar, whose activities include human rights training for rural communities, particularly youth, creating networks of women farmers and fostering collaboration between rural/urban human rights organizations.
Vision
$45,000 For general support of this organization which promotes the rights and welfare of marginalized groups in Pakistan, namely sexual minorities, sex workers and children, through research, crisis intervention, and public interest litigation.
War Against Rape (WAR)
$15,000 For the general support of this organization, based in Karachi (Sindh), whose activities include providing legal aid and crisis intervention support to survivors of rape, domestic violence, as well as community outreach and public campaigns to stop violence against women.
