Grantee Profile

Sin Fronteras I.A.P.

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Grants to Sin Fronteras I.A.P.

  • $360,000Active Strategy

    2011 (Duration 2 years)

    MEXICO CITY, MEXICO — This grant provides support for Sin Fronteras to strengthen and promote human rights protection for migrants and to research and advocate for improved migration policies in Mexico. Sin Fronteras, a civil society organization based in Mexico City, provides legal and other services for migrants, conducts strategic litigation in cases of the violation of migrants' rights, and monitors and reports on the human rights of migrants living in Mexico. It also participates in a number of civil society forums to provide input to government officials on Mexico's evolving migration policy.

  • $350,000Active Strategy

    2010 (Inactive Grant)

    MEXICO CITY, MEXICO — To strengthen institutional capacity with the aim of continuing and expanding work to promote and defend the human rights of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees in Mexico.

  • $300,000Active Strategy

    2009 (Inactive Grant)

    MEXICO CITY, MEXICO — To improve regional governance of migration in Mexico and Central America and to support advocacy, strategic litigation, and capacity building to protect migrants' human rights (over two years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Sin Fronteras I.A.P. $1,010,000 between 2009 and 2012.