International Advocacy Grants (2008)

• All Party Parliamentary Group On Extraordinary Rendition

  To secure an unequivocal UK government condemnation of extraordinary rendition; to promote legislative or administrative reforms to prevent any UK complicity in the practice; to encourage other EU governments to adopt similar protections; and to publish a definitive source document on the UK's experience of rendition.

• American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc

  To secure Congressional and Executive action and pursue litigation to strengthen the human rights content of national security policy including through the building of public support to amend current policy on torture, rendition, secrecy and surveillance. (Over two years)

• American University

  To promote the development and enforcement of international criminal law and humanitarian law through public analysis of critical issues raised by the early decisions of the International Criminal Court; development and implementation of judicial training activities; and wide dissemination of the jurisprudence of international criminal tribunals.

• Conectas

  To support strategic litigation seeking accountability, redress, and systemic improvements in detention conditions in Sao Paulo’s juvenile correctional facilities; a reduction in abusive police practices; expansion of pro bono legal advice nationwide to both civil society organisations and vulnerable populations; and the promotion of human rights concerns in the foreign policies of southern governments, including through a southern-based coalition engaged in advocacy in local capitals and at the UN Human Rights Council.

• Crimes of War Project

  To provide authoritative, impartial and accessible commentary on international human rights and humanitarian law (with particular reference to the “war on terror”) to journalists, scholars and policy makers reporting on war and terrorism; to provide a forum for legal debate and its application to unfolding events, including for example, the emerging doctrine of Responsibility to Protect.

• Global Rights

  To integrate learning and human rights capacity building strategies across the countries and regions in which Global Rights works; to build the capacity of its country offices and thematic programmes.

• Human Rights First

  To uphold the absolute prohibition of torture in the US national security debate and to seek oversight and/or accountability mechanisms for those who breach it; to protect human rights defenders at risk especially in Indonesia, Thailand, Cuba and Colombia.

• Human Rights Watch

  To improve the human rights content of Russian, Indian and South African foreign and domestic policies with emphasis on fundamental freedoms and treatment of their own minority populations; to blunt their current (spoiler) role in the UN with respect to crises including Burma, Darfur and Zimbabwe.

• International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission

  To challenge the criminalisation of same sex relationships and attendant homophobia in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America; to build the capacity of local NGOs to independently pursue this battle; to provide modest emergency relief to human rights defenders engaged in this struggle who are at risk.

• National Council for Civil Liberties (Liberty)

  To prevent any extension to the current 28-day limit to pre-charge detention for terrorism and promote alternatives; to develop Liberty’s e-communications capacity in order to grow its membership and fundraising base.

• Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture (OMCT)

  To uphold the prohibition on torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment worldwide; to mobilise civil society, governments and UN mechanisms to secure the release of individuals subjected to torture or unlawfully detained; to provide emergency assistance to victims of torture; to protect human rights defenders; and to improve the institutional operations of the OMCT secretariat.

• Program on International Policy Attitudes

  To conduct international public opinion polling on human rights issues related to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR); to stimulate reflection on the UDHR principles and create media debate around specific annual international days (such as International Women’s Day).

• Tactical Technology Collective

  To increase the impact of human rights advocacy in the global South by enabling advocates to use technology to facilitate evidence-based campaigning, create and disseminate information, mobilise public support and minimise security and privacy fears.

• Tides Center – Opportunity Agenda

  To develop and implement an overarching communications strategy designed to build a constituency for human rights in the US by developing shared, effective messages that shift public debate on torture, detention and related due process violations.

• World Federalist Movement – Institute for Global Policy

  To establish an international coalition of NGOs to raise awareness of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) worldwide and strengthen the normative consensus; to encourage more effective international responses to crises through improved advocacy on R2P at the national, regional and international levels.

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