Afghanistan

Children in Crisis

Promoting the rights of women and children in Afghanistan

The project will train teachers and police and hold community activities to raise awareness about violence against women and children in order to promote the rights of children, particularly girls, to enjoy an education free from violence. 

$99,750 over one year

Argentina

The Environment and Natural Resource Foundation (Fundacion Ambiente y Recuros Naturales (FARN))

Environmental Justice for the Poor: Building Citizenship and Protecting Rights through Law and Public Participation Tools

The project will to build the capacity of the poor living in 16 local municipalities to participate in decision making about the uses of the Riachuelo and Matanza–Riachuelo rivers and so protect the environmental rights of local citizens. 

$58,000 over one year

Bangladesh

Bangladesh legal Aid and Services Trust

Rights of worker and consumer safety and public accountability in Bangladesh

The project will safeguard the rights of workers and consumers by assessing the capacity of Bangladeshi government bodies involved in worker and consumer safety and by consulting with government and civil society to bring about legislative and policy change. 

$80,600 over one year

Belize

United Belize Advocacy Movement

Legal Empowerment: Improving Advocacy Power of Sexual Minorities to lead a Watchdog Unit for Justice

This project will build the capacity of people living with HIV and sexual minorities to become human rights defenders and provide legal advice to these groups who are suffering rights abuses in Belize.  The project focuses on data collection, advocacy and strengthening the capacity of these groups to participate in legal reform mechanisms.

$66,000 over one year

Burkina Faso

Handicap Solidaire Burkina

Promoting the rights of disabled people in Burkina Faso

The project will raise awareness of the UN Convention on the Rights People with Disabilities, recently ratified by Burkina Faso. This will be done through training of people with disability, civil society organisations and local government in 45 provinces.

$42,694 over one year

Cambodia

Community Legal Education Centre

Public interest litigation and advocacy project

The project will promote the rule of law and democratic institutions in Cambodia by using the legal system to assert and protect citizens’ rights, particularly focusing upon land rights and ownership.

$147,400 over two years

Cameroon

InterFaith Vision Foundation Cameroon

Lobbying and Advocating for the Revision of Obnoxious Traditional Laws and Practices that Marginalise Young Widows and Orphans

Widows and orphans will be educated on their rights to land ownership, micro finance, gender equality, protection from violence and forced marriage. Traditional councils will be trained in how to meet their obligations to ensure these rights.

$75,000 over one year

Chile

Observatorio de Derechos de los Pueblos Indigenas (ODPI)

Monitoring the implementation of United Nations recommendations regarding Human Rights in Chile

This project will promote and monitor the implementation of recommendations made to Chile by the UN Human Rights Council in the Universal Periodic Review and by UN Treaty Bodies.  Activities include awareness-raising, monitoring progress, advocacy and support for legal action against human rights abuse.

$100,000 over two years

China

Chinese Women’s Research Society

Facilitating Chinese NGOs Role in the CEDAW Shadow Report Process

The project will facilitate preparation of the shadow report to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women.  The capacity of Chinese NGOs to monitor and report on the Chinese Government’s implementation of CEDAW will be built through training and workshops. 

$100,000 over two years

East Timor

Judicial System Monitoring Program

Strengthening the capacity of police, health professionals and lawyers to understand and apply the new Penal Code and Domestic Violence Law

The project will promote the rights of women and children by building the capacity of policy, health professionals and lawyers to understand their responsibilities under the new East Timor Penal Code and Domestic Violence Law.  Up to 20 doctors, 20 lawyers, 30 nurses and midwives and 30 police officers will undertake training to better understand the implications of domestic violence and their legal responsibilities. 

$110,834 over one year

Egypt

Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights Association

The Empowerment of Women for Governance in the Egyptian Village

The project will promote the political empowerment of women to participate in local council elections by running capacity-building workshops for women and establishing support centres for women in local councils.

$66,951 over one year

Egypt

Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance

Women Against Violence in Egypt

The project will build the capacity of media workers, school social workers, community members and religious leaders to combat violence against women and promote women’s rights through training and meetings, and by establishing legal aid offices for women who experience domestic violence.

$95,000 over one year

Ghana

Women in Law and Development

Women’s Access to Justice Through Legal Literacy

Empowering women to have access to justice in the Ahanta West District of Western Region, through public education, capacity-building of paralegals, Community Reconciliation Committees, and engagement with state agencies and traditional leaders. Over 2000 people will be reached through radio discussions, posters and community outreach seminars. 25 community members will be trained as legal literacy volunteers.

$98,135 over one year

Guyana

Society against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD)

Human Rights Education for the Protection of Sexual and Gender Minorities in Guyana

This project will provide human rights education to sexual and gender minorities in Guyana, and to providers of social and health services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and transsexual persons.  SASOD will produce awareness raising materials and host a series of discussions and training sessions with various stakeholders and service-providers. 

$23,390 over 11 months

India

Association for Voluntary Action

AusAID Child Friendly Village Project

The project will promote the right of children to an education and to end the practice of child labour.  Up to 20 child friendly villages will be created in Rajasthan, India, and the project will raise awareness in these villages of education and human rights, and assist them to improve their local governance systems. 

$149,000 over two years

Indonesia

Centre for Study and Child Protection

Prevention of trafficking in children and women for sexual purposes through theatre show in North Sumatra

The Centre will undertake an innovative campaign to raise awareness about the trafficking of women and children in North Sumatra, Indonesia.  The Centre will hold, in conjunction with a local theatre group, shows in 5 cities and districts which will educate viewers about preventing trafficking as well as distributing recordings of the shows to the wider community. 

$50,000 over one year

Iraq

Handicap International

Strengthening self advocacy capacities for rights and equal opportunities of Persons with disabilities in Iraq

The project will work with Iraqi people living with disabilities to become active disability stakeholders. By providing training and micro-grant support, the project will enable these groups to advocate and lobby for their rights and will help legitimise their role in the development and implementation of disability related policies. $100,000 over one year.

$100,000 over one year

Jamaica

Jamaica Association for the Deaf

Public Education Campaign on the CRPD for the Deaf

This project will develop linguistically accessible materials for the Deaf and build the capacity of advocacy teams to sensitise key stakeholder groups to engage in a rights-based approach to development for the Deaf community.

$100,000 over two years

Kenya

Kenya Human Rights Commission

Human Rights Accountability Project

This project will provide support to the Commission to increase its interventions to prevent human rights violations and integrate human rights and accountability within legal, policy and institutional reforms, through research, monitoring, reporting, and international advocacy at the United Nations.

$100,000 over one year

Lebanon

KAFA (enough) Violence and Exploitation

Legalizing the Protection of Women and Girls from Family Violence

This project will promote gender equality and empowerment of women and girls in Lebanon. It will provide social support and counselling for victims of family violence, and will lobby and mobilize decision-makers to formally adopt a draft law that protects women from family violence.

$99,540 over one year

Liberia

National Human Rights Centre of Liberia

Consolidating Human Rights and Rule of Law Culture in Rural Committees

To educate rural populations in six political sub-divisions on their human rights and undertake judicial advocacy and monitoring campaigns to ensure the rights and fair treatment of defendants and prisoners.

$88,625 over one year

Maldives

Hoadedhdhoo Association for Development

Empowering youth human rights organisations: mainstreaming human rights into development plans of NGOs based in the Southern Atolls

This project will raise awareness of, and empower youth about, their human rights, particularly their civil and political rights, their economic, social and cultural rights and also the relationship between climate change and human rights.  Six workshops will take place in the four most southern Maldivian atolls to build the capacity of NGOs in the area of youth rights. 

$37,915 over one year

Mexico

Colectivo para la Atención de la Salud Integral de la Familia A.C. – Cifam (Collective for Family Health)

Advocating for Sexual and Reproductive Rights as Human Rights for the Social Development in Chiapas, Mexico

This project seeks to reduce personal, social and political Human Rights Violations based on discrimination in Chiapas.  It will focus on advocacy training, awareness raising and promotion of social participation in the prevention of discrimination.

$97,094 over one year

Mongolia

Open Society Forum

Strengthening Human Rights NGOs in Mongolia

The capacity of human rights NGOs in Mongolia will be strengthened by this proposal.  They will be trained to identify violations of human rights, particularly civil and political rights, and engage with government and official human rights bodies to improve their accountability. 

$39,350 over one year

Nicaragua

The National Human Rights Institution

Strengthening the Human Rights of the Indigenous People and Afrodescendents

The Nicaraguan NHRI will work with Indigenous People and Afrodescendents to strengthen their capacity to provide key social services and assume responsibility for their own communities.

$50,000 over one year

Nigeria

Centre for the Right to Health

Building the capacities of civil society groups and media organisations on issues relating to sexual and reproductive rights in Nigeria

Capacity building of civil society groups and media organizations through a series of workshops on issues relating to sexual and reproductive rights in Nigeria.

$104,690 over two years

Nigeria

Human Assistance Initiative

Judicial and Human Rights Training of Sharia and Customary Court Judges on Integrating Human Rights in the System of Administration of Criminal Justice in Nigeria

This project will enhance the understanding of judicial officers in Nigeria, especially Sharia and customary court judges, of the principles of human rights within the system of administration of criminal justice. This will be done through a series of training workshops.

$83,030 over one year

Palestinian National Authority

Women Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC)

Consolidating

This project will contribute to the development of the legislative and institutional policies which support women and will raise community awareness of women's rights. It will also document violations of women's human rights and prepare studies and reports to be disseminated locally, regionally and internationally.

$100,000 over one year

Philippines

Balay Alternative Legal Advocates for Development in Mindanaw

Enhancing human rights advocacy in Lanao through legal and paralegal support program

Human rights violations in Lanao Province in the Philippines will be documented as part of this project.  Paralegals will be trained to understand international human rights so they can work with local communities to monitor and report on violations and to present their findings to relevant organisations. 

$54,202 over one year

Solomon Islands

Save the Children Australia

Our Views in News

The rights of children will be encouraged by participation of children in media initiatives using print, radio and television.  This project will also establish children’s clubs to conduct community activities on children’s issues and train media personnel on the Convention on the Rights of the Child.  $70,000 over one year.

$70,000 over one year

Somalia

Disability Action Network

Promotion of Equal Human Rights and Elimination of All Forms of Barriers against People with Disabilities in Somaliland

Raising public awareness of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities through media, publications and events; building advocacy capacities and sensitisation of government officials, teachers, community leaders, police and other change agents on disability rights.

$55,155 over one year

Sri Lanka

Council for Public Policy

IDP Land Documentation Program – Jaffna Legal Aid Project

The right of internally displaced people in Sri Lanka’s Jaffna District to return to their previous homes is impinged by a lack of evidence about their land ownership.  The project will increase legal efforts to secure such evidence and facilitate the return of war-affected persons, especially women.

$97,765 over one year

Sri Lanka

Women in Need

Justice for women, protection of human rights and women in need, intervention in combating violence against women in Sri Lanka

This project will combat domestic violence against women and empower women to enjoy the rights afforded to them by the Sri Lankan constitution.  Counselling and legal services will be provided to victims of domestic violence, along with community awareness raising programs which target government officials, the judiciary and men to address this issue. 

$99,625 over one year

Sudan

Sudanese Human Rights Monitor

Supporting Rights and Democracy for Effective Participation in Elections

Promoting democratisation in Sudan through awareness raising of human rights including the rights of citizenship and building the capacity of civil society to play a role in election monitoring.

$42,292 over 18 months

Togo

Handicap International

The International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Making it work in Togo

Building the capacity of institutions to incorporate the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities into legislation in the education, health and employment sectors.

$99,741 over one year

Tuvalu

Tuvalu National Council of Women

Tuvalu Women’s Crisis Centre

The Tuvalu National Council of Women will establish a women’s crisis centre to provide free, confidential counselling to women and provide advice on domestic abuse and legal rights.  The Council will work closely with the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre to train Tuvalan counsellors. 

$68,222 over two years