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The Torture Legacy
American Public Media is the nation’s second-largest producer of public radio programs, reaching more than 14.9 million listeners nationwide each week. This grant supports the production of a one-hour radio documentary and companion web site on the men and women of the U.S. military who carried out abuses in Iraq and the effects of that experience on individual soldiers.
This grant supports the development of a database of international law references for use by justice sector professionals.
Mainstreaming International Law in Judicial Training and Education: Phase I
The American Society of International Law is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to advancing the study and use of international law. This grant supports the first phase of a project aimed at mainstreaming international law into federal and state judicial training and education programs.
Rights, Camera, Action
This grant enables Americans for Informed Democracy to launch and evaluate Rights, Camera, Action, an initiative to inspire and support innovative, youth-led human rights activism and to document this activism in mini-films that can serve as “how-to†guides for other young activists interested in launching human rights campaigns in their communities.
Expanding the Human Rights Movement in the United States: A Project to Grow AIUSA’s Constituency
AIUSA has long been a cornerstone of grassroots advocacy in human rights in the U.S. This grant supports an institutional analysis and capacity-building project to facilitate the strengthening of its constituency base.
International Justice and Accountability Program
Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is the U.S. section of this international grassroots human rights organization. This grant supports the creation of an International Justice and Accountability Program at AIUSA to build a U.S. constituency of advocates for international justice.
Judicial Training on International Law
The Aspen Institute is dedicated to informed dialogue and inquiry on issues of global concern. This grant supports seminars organized by the Institute to introduce U.S. federal judges to the implementation of international and foreign law in U.S. case law, in the European system, the inter-American system, and the U.N.
Brandeis Institute for International Justice
This grant supports ICEJP's convenings of U.S. and international judges to address issues related to international justice. It further supports the publication of a book titled The International Judge: An Inquiry into the Men and Women Who Administer Global Justice to help educate legal professionals and the general public about the profession of the international judge and their important role in international justice.
Corporate Legal Accountability Project
The Center maintains a website with news updated hourly about companies’ human rights practices worldwide. This grant supports expansion of the website’s collection of lawsuits and regulatory actions and will provide a one-stop international resource on corporate accountability for human rights abuses.
The Campaign advocates for compensation for civilians harmed in conflict from the responsible governments. This general operating grant supports the organization’s work to encourage community rebuilding programs, pressure the Pentagon to keep count of civilian casualties, document the challenges the U.S. military faces in distributing funds for humanitarian assistance,
The Center is investigating the United States’ decreasing role in setting international environmental standards, the kidnapping and abuse of detainees in the “war on terror,†the impact today of specific incidents in America’s racial history, and the interests behind America’s dependence on carbon-based fuels. This general operating grant will support the Center’s continued work in its investigations.
International Law and Justice Program
Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) seeks to educate Americans about global interdependence and to help develop, reform and strengthen international laws and institutions. With this grant, CGS will expand the work of its International Law and Justice Program.
Second Edition of Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know
The Crimes of War Project provides clear and reliable information to journalists and others who lack formal training in humanitarian law but who want to make sense of incidents in light of the appropriate rules of conduct. This grant supports the publication of a second edition of the book Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff.
The Crimes of War Project promotes knowledge and understanding of international humanitarian law among reporters and the general public. This grant supports the Project’s ongoing efforts to train U.S. journalists on how the rules of war apply to current conflicts, particularly the so-called war on terror.
Conference for U.S. Bar Leaders on the International Criminal Court
The International Bar Association seeks to protect the rule of law, develop international law and raise awareness of international issues affecting the legal profession. This grant supports a conference for State Bar Association leaders to learn about U.S. policy toward the International Criminal Court.
Sir Richard May Seminar on International Law and International Courts
The Academy provides high quality educational programs for judges, court administrators, justice ministry officials and other legal professionals from around the world. This grant supports four annual seminars for U.S. judges to introduce them to the international legal order and its institutions in The Hague.
Clive Stafford Smith Book Tour
The Nation Institute was created in 1966 by the publisher of The Nation to extend the reach of the magazine’s progressive ideas. This grant supports the Institute’s efforts to highlight the work of Clive Stafford Smith, whose book, The Eight O’Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantanamo, provides a unique window into the detention camp and the detainees held there.
The Campaign is a collaboration of religious organizations joined together to demand that the U.S. not engage in torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of anyone, without exception. JEHT support will help the Campaign become an independent organization with its own executive director, deputy director for administration, and deputy director for policy coordination.
The Torture Archive
The Archive is a research institute at George Washington University that publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. This grant will support the Archive’s online effort to preserve and make widely accessible primary source documents on the United States’ detention and interrogation of individuals in the context of hostilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the global “war on terrorism.â€
White House Emails Case
The National Security Archive (NSA) is an independent, nongovernmental research institute and declassification resource center at The George Washington University. This grant supports the NSA’s litigation to compel the government to preserve the emails that the White House has failed to archive as required by law in order to prevent their permanent loss.
Capacity Building/Membership Development
Physicians for Human Rights mobilizes health professionals to stop human rights abuses in the United States and internationally through information gathering, forensic science and advocacy. This grant supports an effort to convert campaign participants into financial supporters and to increase the percentage of income derived from individual donors.
U.S. Human Rights Scholarship and Practice Project
The Proteus Fund supports organizations working to advance social justice and the common good. This grant supports several symposia on human rights and domestic legal practice.
International Criminal Court Fellowship
The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School coordinates a program of diverse human rights activities that serve students and scholars at Yale and contribute to the development of the human rights community. This grant supports a teaching and research fellowship at the Center for a former International Criminal Court (ICC) staff prosecutor.
