Issues Affecting Women Programme Grants (2007)

• ASTRA Anti Sex Trafficking Action

  To provide reintegration and resocialization services to young women in Serbia who have been victimised through being trafficked. In addition to providing direct services, ASTRA will work on advocacy at the national level to enhance the adoption and implementation of the UN’s Palermo Protocol by Serbian authorities. Furthermore, the project will focus on increasing police and judicial accountability for the rights of victims of trafficking. ASTRA will monitor the activities of fake travel agencies working for traffickers and advocate a thorough investigation by the National Employment Services. (Over two years)

• Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation

  To facilitate the effective and sustainable implementation of Bulgaria’s 2006 law providing protection against domestic violence. To increase government responsibility for the application of the law and the provision of programmes to help victims of domestic violence. (Over two years)

• Eaves Central Services

  To provide awareness training for public and private organisations in the UK to ensure that more trafficked women are identified and that they receive appropriate assistance. This includes provision of accommodation services to trafficked women who have been exploited through prostitution, domestic slavery and forced marriage. Eaves’ Anti-Trafficking Programme aims to provide much needed evidence for increasing government financial support for additional services for women trafficked into the UK. (Over two years)

• Foundation for Cares in the Community Diva

  To enable children and women in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, to overcome gender-based violence by providing 24-hour emergency services and access to resources and services. The organisation will continue to work with state and municipal administrations in addition to non-governmental organisations, to decrease violence against women and children. (Over three years)

• Fraueninformationszentrum

  To provide women trafficked to Switzerland with direct support including: individual counselling during crises, access to doctors and therapists, psychological support, assistance in finding accommodation, advice on organising their lives after victimisation, clarification of their rights and residential status, help during legal proceedings, and support in the event of return to their home country. (Over three years)

• Global Rights

  To provide technical assistance to Mexican and Central American NGOs so that they can develop strategies to encourage their governments to strengthen laws regarding rights and protection of trafficking victims, to create programmes to prevent trafficking, and to prosecute traffickers. Global Rights will continue to monitor US anti-trafficking laws, programmes and funding, and advocate for transparent funding practices. (Over two years)

• Kalayaan

  To meet the most pressing emergency and long-term needs of migrant domestic workers in the UK, among these, the need to escape from abusive employers. Moreover, to increase their access to employment, health services and basic skills training, and to increase awareness amongst policy-makers of migrant domestic workers’ specific problems. (Over three years)

• Mama Cash

  To support grassroots and women’s groups in central eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States in order to strengthen their capacity to combat trafficking in women. Amsterdam-based Mama Cash will make sub-grants to local partners to increase their effectiveness, sustainability and collaboration. The aim of the project is to increase the level of states' responsibility towards victims of trafficking and furthermore, to enhance women’s awareness of this crime and of their personal rights. (Over two years)

• Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

  To provide continuing consultation with advocates, government officials and legal professionals throughout central and eastern Europe to promote the passage and effective implementation of improved domestic violence laws. Furthermore to organise a three-day regional conference on drafting and implementing such laws in these countries. (Over two years)

• Semillas – Mexican Society for Women's Rights

  To support 10 to 12 women’s organisations in different Mexican states to build their capacity to address the mass murders of women and the impunity with which they are carried out. Semillas will provide technical and legal training so that Mexico’s general protection laws for women can be transformed into local laws and regulations. Semillas will also promote learning among these organisations so that they can join forces to investigate, denounce and pursue litigation against the mass murderers. (Over two years)

• Slovak and Czech Women's Fund

  To promote gender equality by supporting initiatives focused on the protection, advocacy and implementation of women’s rights in the Czech and Slovak Republics. A major objective is to support organisations that provide shelters and counselling services to female victims of violence. A second objective is to increase the capacity of women-led organisations to secure sustainable funding. (Over two years)

• Urban Justice Center

  To continue funding the Sex Workers Project in New York, which provides legal services, human rights documentation, and policy and media advocacy on behalf of its sex worker clients. A key goal is to raise the level of dialogue and implement systemic reform in this area. (Over two years)

• Women's Link Worldwide

  To fund fact-finding investigations to document violence against women during their migration from northern and western Africa to Europe. To develop a tool-kit on gender-based asylum for advocates, interviewers and first-instance decision-makers in Spain

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