International Human Rights
Programme
Protecting and promoting the human rights of all people
Overview
Since 1948 the international community has developed an extensive body of laws and principles to protect human rights. The laws provide all of us with the tools to live full lives with access to justice. But, there remains a gulf between human rights rhetoric and the lived experience of so many people. We seek to close that gap.
We provide core, project, and seed funding in multi-year grants to organisations that work on five key priorities. We support efforts that ensure:
- justice for victims of international crimes;
- detention as a last resort and zero-tolerance for torture;
- full dignity for LGBTQI people;
- a healthy information sphere; and
- strong human rights movements.
Find out more about our programme and strategy in our video and/or in our strategy paper.
Programme strategy paper
We fund organisations working on justice for victims of international crimes, ending torture, LGBTQI dignity, a healthy information sphere, and strong human rights movements. Find out more about our strategy in this paper.
In 2024, we made 50 grants totalling USD 41 million
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Watch our latest videos
Around the world, immigration detention is increasingly imposed, not as a ‘last resort’, as required in international law, but as a routine tool of migration management. The collective efforts of our partners successfully garnered cross-party support for an amendment to the Immigration and Social Security Coordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill, which set out a 28-day time limit to immigration detention. Our partners remain committed to seeking ways to implement the amendment’s measures in the new parliament, and to securing a strict time limit to detention with robust judicial oversights.
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