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PROGRAM ON GLOBAL SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Grants Authorized 2005
MacArthur seeks to strengthen and expand the human rights legal framework worldwide, with a special emphasis on Mexico, Nigeria, and Russia. It is dedicated to sustaining and expanding national and international human rights organizations and supporting the implementation of laws and treaties that protect human rights. Grants support work that contributes to governmental initiatives but also monitors government performance and accountability to their constitutions and international treaties. In our country-specific programs in Mexico, Nigeria, and Russia, we place a special emphasis on encouraging police reform, both to strengthen police performance and to prevent police abuse. Finally, support is given to further the international justice system, with an emphasis on key institutions such as the International Criminal Court and various regional human rights courts and commissions and emerging norms such as the responsibility to protect.
HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.
$110,000 in support of a pilot project on the application of geospatial technologies to human rights.
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York
$1,500,000 in support of the Safe and Free Program to protect civil liberties (over three years).
Benetech, Palo Alto, California
$800,000 in support of using science and technology to promote human rights (over three years).
Columbia University, New York, New York
$100,000 for establishing a Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research to house the archives of leading human rights organizations.
Federation Internationale Des Ligues Des Droits De L’Homme, Paris, France
$465,000 in support of activities that facilitate victims and human rights NGOs’ interaction and cooperation with the International Criminal Court (over three years).
Harvard Law School, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts
$3,000,000 in support of the Open Net Initiative (over four years).
$50,000 in support of a conference on human rights and the Internet.
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts
$245,000 in support of greater use of measurement and quantitative indicators in human rights practice (over two years).
Human Rights in China, New York, New York
$400,000 for general operating support (over two years).
Human Rights Watch, New York, New York
$50,000 for the creation and dissemination of a video, DVD, and still photographs to document and publicize the human rights crisis in northern Uganda.
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, Hungary
$25,000 in support of the conference Human Rights in the Democracy Movement Twenty Years Ago–Human Rights Today.
Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa, Banjul, Gambia
$395,000 in support of a project to develop litigation for the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (over three years).
interights, International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, London, United Kingdom
$450,000 in support of the effective use of law to promote human rights (over three years).
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, Oakland, California
$30,000 in support of the International Human Rights Funders Group project (over three years).
University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley, California
$300,000 in support of the China Internet Project (over two years).
MEXICO
Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos, Mexico City, Mexico
$210,000 to produce human rights shadow reports in eight Mexican states (over three years).
Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montana, Tlachinollan, Tlapa de Comonfort, Mexico
$320,000 in support for the defense of the human rights of the indigenous people of the Mountain and Costa Chica regions of Guerrero (over three years).
FUNDAR, Centro de Analisis e Investigacion, Mexico City, Mexico
$450,000 in support of strengthening the public human rights commissions (over three years).
Instituto Mexicano para el Desarrollo Comunitario, Guadalajara, Mexico
$320,000 to support the creation of a formal human rights network in the state of Jalisco (over three years).
Instituto para la Seguridad y la Democracia, Mexico City, Mexico
$320,000 in support of building models for police accountability and civil society capacity building (over two years).
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
$400,000 in support of monitoring and evaluating the performance of Mexico’s National Commission for Human Rights (over three years).
NIGERIA
Centre for Law Enforcement Education, Ikeja, Nigeria
$330,000 for the conduct and use of a national crime victimization survey as a complementary and reliable source of information to official statistics on crime in Nigeria (over two years).
Gender and Development Action, Lagos, Nigeria
$30,000 for technical support for women in the National Conference on Political Reforms in Nigeria.
Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
$100,000 for participatory monitoring of local government resources and improving accountability in Rivers State (over two years).
Network on Police Reform in Nigeria, Ikeja, Nigeria
$300,000 in support of a research and advocacy project on abuse of human rights by police in Nigeria (over two years).
Niger Delta Human and Environmental Rescue Organisation, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
$100,000 to monitor the resource flows of the Niger Delta Development Commission and other related key development institutions in Rivers State, Nigeria (over two years).
Women’s Right Advancement and Protection Alternative, Abuja, Nigeria
$250,000 in support of Islamic Family Law and Practices in Northwestern Nigeria (over three years).
RUSSIA
Alliance of Human Rights Organizations in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Ekaterinburg, Russia
$60,000 in support of activities to combat police torture (over two years).
Center for Information Research, Institute of the USA and Canada, Moscow, Russia
$70,000 in support of the development and maintenance of a publicly accessible electronic website with a full collection of the European Court for Human Rights documents, with Russian-language search tools (over two years).
Central-Blacksoil Center for Protection of Media Rights, Voronezh, Russia
$225,000 in support of activities to protect media rights in Central Russia (over three years).
Committee for Civil Rights, Moscow, Russia
$300,000 in support of activities to combat police abuse in Moscow city and region (over three years).
Consortium of Women’s Non-governmental Associations, Moscow, Russia
$225,000 in support of activities to protect women’s rights in Russia, including collaboration with human rights ombudsmen at the federal and regional level (over three years).
Donors Forum Russia, Moscow, Russia
$120,000 in support of communications and public relations activities aimed at enhancing strategy development and promoting positive public relations towards philanthropy in Russia (over three years).
INDEM Foundation, Moscow, Russia
$160,000 in support of activities to promote the professionalization of the police force (over two years).
Independent Council of Legal Expertise, Moscow, Russia
$600,000 in support of activities to facilitate reform of the courts and law enforcement agencies and improve mechanisms for the protection of human rights in Russia (over three years).
Interregional Human Rights Group, Voronezh, Russia
$225,000 in support of human rights networking activities in the Voronezh region of the Russian Federation (over three years).
Jurix, Moscow, Russia
$200,000 in support of activities to promote the institution of human rights ombudsmen in the Russian Federation (over two years).
Moscow Center for Gender Studies, Moscow, Russia
$225,000 in support of activities to promote women’s human rights and gender equality in Russia (over three years).
Moscow Guild of Theater and Screen Actors, Moscow, Russia
$30,000 in support of the annual International Human Rights Film Festival.
Perm Civic Chamber, Perm, Russia
$200,000 in support of activities to promote the human rights community in the Russian Federation (over two years).
Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
$150,000 in support of activities to combat police abuse in Krasnoyarsk region (over three years).
Public Verdict Fund, Moscow, Russia
$300,000 in support of a range of activities to combat police abuse in Russia (over three years).
Saratov Legal Reform Project, Saratov, Russia
$650,000 in support of work on the reform of legal science, practice, and education in Russia (over three years).
Youth Human Rights Movement, Voronezh, Russia
$225,000 in support of an antifascist campaign in the Voronezh region of the Russian Federation
(over three years).
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
Alliances for Africa, Lagos, Nigeria
$400,000 in support of the establishment of an effective African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (over three years).
American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education, Washington, D.C.
$50,000 in support of a symposium on the international rule of law.
Avocats Sans Frontieres, Brussels, Belgium
$250,000 in support of legal assistance for victims of human rights violations participating in the International Criminal Court case in Congo (over two years).
CARE USA, Atlanta, Georgia
$1,500,000 in support of humanitarian response to the tsunamis in Asia and to meet humanitarian needs in Darfur and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Darfur Peace and Development Organization, Fort Wayne, Indiana
$250,000 in support of the Darfur Atrocity Crimes Documentation Project.
DePaul University College of Law International Human Rights Law Institute, Chicago, Illinois
$32,400 in support of the International Criminal Court Judicial Capacity Strengthening Program.
Global Policy Forum, New York, New York
$225,000 for strengthening NGO dialogue with the United Nations Security Council (over three years).
International Bar Association, London, United Kingdom
$530,000 for an Evaluation and Educational program on the International Criminal Court (over two years).
International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, New York
$440,000 in support of activities to strengthen the work of the International Criminal Court (over two years).
Redress Trust, London, United Kingdom
$20,000 in support of a seminar and assistance to the ICC on protection of victims and witnesses in Congo.
Tsinghua University Law School, Beijing, China
$115,000 in support of training in basic legal knowledge for legal workers in judicial offices and village activists in rural areas.
University of British Columbia liu Institute for Global Issues, Vancouver, Canada
$162,500 in support of activities in northern Uganda to implement traditional justice mechanisms and coordinate them with national and international justice efforts.
University of California, Berkeley Human Rights Center, Berkeley, California
$175,000 in support of The Database Project: Supporting the Reintegration of Child Returnees of the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, The Hague, Netherlands
$400,000 in support of activities to support training for victims and their legal representatives in the ICC’s first cases and to address gender issues in national implementing legislation for the Rome Statute (over two years).
World Federalist Movement - Institute for Global Policy, New York, New York
$1,500,000 in support of general operations (over three years).
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