Grant Program International Human Rights

To initiate and continue litigation using the principle that foreign human rights violators can be sued in US courts.

To provide technical support to the international criminal tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

To establish an academy for training investigators of egregious human rights violations, and to create rapid response teams of these trained investigators to travel to crime scenes quickly.

To promote and protect the rights of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel using education aimed at all levels of students.

To submit individual cases of human rights violations to the Inter-American Commission and Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

To provide Chechen surgeon and human rights advocate Hasan Baiyev living expenses in the United States while he awaits a ruling on an asylum application.

To strengthen human rights protection and the rule of law in Latin America by training and assisting organizations in submitting cases of violations to the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights.

To promote human rights in Mexico through a partnership with the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights.

To promote and protect basic human rights for sexual minorities throughout the world.

To support a coalition of organizations that monitor, document and publicize human rights violations committed in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.