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Human Rights and International Justice Grant Guidelines

Grant guidelines help applicants determine whether their idea for a grant fits within a particular grantmaking strategy. MacArthur can consider funding only those applications that closely match three related criteria that appear in program guidelines: topical focus addressed by the...

European Commission on Democracy and Human Rights Small Grants

The emergency fund for human rights defenders at risk managed under the EIDHR allows the Commission to give direct small grants of up to 10.000 euro per grant to Human Rights Defenders (HRD), be it individuals or organisations, who are in...

Euro-Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders

The EMHRF aims at promoting and enhancing a human rights culture and the consolidation of a nascent democratic civil society within the South-Mediterranean region by providing a strategic financial assistance and support to local, national and regional human rights non-governmental...

Urgent Action Fund

Rapid Response Grants are a funding tool used to support interventions by activists in a strategic and timely manner. Urgent Action Fund accepts requests 365 days per year, in any language, from activists around the world. Each request receives a response within 72 hours and funds can be wired...

Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders

Martin Ennals Foundation is the common project of a broad range of international human rights NGOs. Ten such organisations have joined hands to make the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA) into an effective tool for the PROTECTION of human rights defenders. Martin Ennals’...

Human Rights Enforcement Mechanisms of the United Nations

Since the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, several United Nations mechanisms for enforcing and protecting economic, social, and cultural rights have emerged. One of the most important international mechanisms for defending and promoting ESCR...

Unity Statement for Global Day of Action

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Philippines: Justice for Zara and Ka Randy!

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ESCR-Net members denounce systemic racism and police brutality affecting Black Lives

ESCR-Net members, many of whom themselves have suffered racist violence in their own contexts, have expressed their outrage and solidarity with the anti-racist protests in the US and...

Growing repression

The COVID-19 pandemic and responses to it have both exposed and exacerbated existing structural injustices relating to inequality, discrimination, marginalization and dispossession. Traditionally marginalized groups such as women, youth, indigenous peoples, migrants and ethnic minorities are...

ESCR-Net Global Call to Action in response to the COVID-19

The Day After Tomorrow: Confronting Systemic Injustices, Advancing Human Rights

ESCR-Net Global Call to Action – already endorsed by 135 members and 40 allies from over 60 countries – advances collective demands for a just recovery and new normal in the face of COVID19

Front Line Defenders launches annual report on human rights defenders at risk

Front Line Defenders’ 2016 report documents the attacks and violence against human rights defenders around...