Funding Calls for Providing Financial Support to Human Right Defenders

(May 2019)

Take a look at the top funding calls for providing financial support for human rights projects around the world.

Internet Freedom Fund to Promote Human Rights and Internet Freedom
Open Technology Fund is seeking applications for its Internet Freedom Fund which is a primary way to support projects and people working on open and accessible technology-centric projects that promote human rights, internet freedom, open societies, and help advance inclusive and safe access to global communications…[more]

Filmmakers Without Borders: Seeking Applications for Filmmaking Grants Program
Filmmakers Without Borders is seeking applications for its Filmmaking Grants which support independent filmmakers around the world via grants and other funding initiatives. Supported projects include narrative films, documentary films, and new media projects that align with themes of social justice, empowerment, and cultural exchange…[more]

Movies that Matter offers grants to Human Rights Film Events
Movies that Matter is offering grants to human rights film events in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, especially in countries with limited resources and freedom of press…[more]

AWDF Call for Proposals: Leading from the South 4 (Africa and the Middle East)
African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is seeking proposals for grants from all eligible women-led and women’s rights groups and organisations in Africa and the Middle East under Leading From the South…[more]

Muste Institute: Seeking Applications for Social Justice Fund
The A.J. Muste Memorial Institute is seeking applications for its Social Justice Fund to support grassroots activist projects in the US and around the world, giving priority to those with small budgets and little access to more mainstream funding sources…[more]

Nominations Open for Alfred Fried Photography Award from across the World
Nominations are open for Alfred Fried Photography Award that promote photographers from all over the world whose pictures capture human efforts towards a peaceful world and the quest for beauty and goodness in their lives…[more]

Applications Open for Vaclav Havel Journalism Fellowship Program 2019
Applications are open for Vaclav Havel Journalism Fellowship Program 2019 that provide mentoring and support for outstanding journalists dedicated to promoting human rights and democracy in their target regions…[more]

APWLD Call for Proposals for Central Asia Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) Programme
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) is inviting grassroots women’s rights organisations and movements from Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan) to take part in this exciting Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) programme…[more]

EU inviting Applicants for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) Program
The European Union (EU) has announced a call for proposals under its two lots: Lot 1 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)…[more]

Open Society Initiative for Europe inviting NGOs for “Building Social Base” Program
Open Society Initiative for Europe (OSIFE) is currently inviting nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) registered in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia for its program entitled “Building Social Base”…[more]

The Canada Fund for Local Initiatives – Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Gabon
The High Commission of Canada in Cameroon representing Canada in Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic and Gabon, has launched its annual call for proposals for the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI)…[more]

Funding Call on Land and Environmental Rights for Human Rights Organisations (Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand)
The Norwegian Human Rights Fund is seeking applications from human rights organisations working with land and environmental rights in Indonesia, Mexico and Thailand…[more]

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