Other Grants (2007)

Refugee & Displacement




• Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children

  To ensure that asylum-seeking women and children in the United States are detained only in exceptional and necessary circumstances; to promote alternatives to their detention and, in the interim, improve their existing conditions of detention; and to promote a greater human rights dimension to ongoing US debate on immigration detention. (Over two years)

• Network of European Foundations

  To make targeted grants at a pan-European level to achieve policy change at EU and domestic levels on issues of migration and integration with the aim of improving the lives of migrants and their families; encouraging broader commitment at the EU level to migration and integration policies; and linking EU policies with Member State policies.

• US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants

  To end the mandatory detention of around 150,000 refugees in long-standing camps along the Thai–Burma border. The project seeks to alleviate human despair by ending the warehousing of these refugees and providing full legal status, freedom of movement, access to labour markets, primary education and basic healthcare. The project will also establish a powerful precedent, replicable worldwide, for the enlightened treatment of other chronic refugee populations. (Over three years)




Re-Grants to field NGOS




• Fund For Global Human Rights

  To provide financial support and occasional capacity building to human rights activists in the global south especially in south-east and central Asia. In addition, the Fund plans to expand assistance to more human rights activists in its current countries of focus and to provide greater assistance to grantees seeking organisational/management advice. It also plans to invest in its development capacity; and to build its international structure, operations, governance and funding. (Over three years)

• Global Dialogue

  To provide institutional support to four to five Turkish human rights organisations (mostly located outside Istanbul), to address torture, due process and impunity for abuses of civil and political rights. (Over two years)

• International Rehabilitation Council on Torture Victims

  To nurture forensic and treatment expertise among health professionals for the diagnosis and treatment of torture victims principally in the developing world; to create dedicated torture rehabilitation centres where none currently exist and provide funding to those in greatest need; to campaign for the observance of the total prohibition on torture worldwide and increased funding for torture rehabilitation from governments and private sources; to campaign for an improved international legal framework for the provision of redress to torture victims.




Other (Miscellaneous)




• Independent Diplomat Ltd

  To provide confidential, independent advice on diplomatic strategy worldwide to governments, international institutions and NGOs with a view to levelling the playing field for the disadvantaged and marginalised. (Over two years)

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