Grant Program International Human Rights

To increase understanding among US policymakers about the International Criminal Court, and to increase its effectiveness.

To coordinate a campaign to raise public awareness and understanding of the importance of US participation in the International Criminal Court.

To send a mission to attend the trial of two staff members of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.

To support grassroots human rights advocates and their affiliated organizations through technical assistance, technology, networking and advocacy.

To support the Business and Human Rights Program, which is designed to protect workers’ rights by promoting corporate responsibility in improving labor practices.

To assist African human rights organizations in preparing and submitting human rights cases to the African Commission of Human Rights.

To support the Freedom-to-Write Program, which defends the human rights of threatened writers and operates an emergency response fund to assist them.

To support the International Forensic Program, which uses scientific techniques to investigate human rights violations such as torture and killings.

To support the Mexico Human Rights Program, which conducts monitoring and documentation of human rights violations and provides support and accompaniment for human rights advocates in that country.

To support a three-month emergency effort to investigate, monitor, document and report on human rights violations in Russia’s breakaway republic of Chechnya.