Strengthening of U.S. Commitments
Litigating U.S. Human Rights and Environmental Violations: A New Approach
Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (AEHR) provides litigation and public advocacy services to marginalized communities suffering from violations affecting their lives and health. This grant supports AEHR's efforts to publicize its human rights petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights about the extreme pollution affecting the largely African-American population of Mossville, LA.
Human Rights Working Group
The American Civil Liberties Union is the largest civil liberties organization in the United States. This grant supports a staff team to encourage colleagues in the organization to use international human rights; train U.S. advocates to use an international human rights framework domestically; and work with human rights groups in other countries on problems that transcend national boundaries.
National Security Program
This grant supports the ACLU’s National Security Program, which uses litigation, advocacy, and public education to limit the harmful effects of the government’s post-9/11 counter-terrorism policies and practices.
Feasibility Study for a Coaching Project on the Use of International Human Rights Mechanisms
The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University works with students, faculty and the international legal community to provide training, scholarship and support for human rights initiatives around the world. This grant supports a feasibility study for a Human Rights Coaching Project, which will serve as an ongoing resource for U.S. nonprofits interested in learning how to use international human rights strategies.
Brandeis Institute for International Judges
The International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life runs a unique program to convene judges who serve on international courts and tribunals. This grant supports two such convenings of international judges and a speaking tour in the United States for prominent international judges.
Guantanamo Global Justice Program
This grant supports a collaboration between the Center and Reprieve to provide legal assistance to Guantanamo detainees; JEHT support will help the Center focus on the advocacy coordination aspect of the effort.
Democratizing International Dispute Settlement
The Center uses international law to protect the environment and ensure a just and sustainable society. In so doing, it seeks to make international dispute mechanisms more transparent, accountable, and participatory. This grant supports implementation of a legal strategy to democratize targeted international governance frameworks.
The Center is a leading NGO that relies on principles of universal jurisdiction to help victims bring civil suits against human rights abusers in the U.S. Several hundred alleged abusers live in the U.S. and several dozen visit the country every year. This general operating grant supports the Center’s work bringing human rights abusers to account in the U.S.
Operating Support
The Center for Public Integrity produces original investigative journalism about significant public issues to make institutional power more transparent and accountable. This grant supports its ongoing investigative work.
Case Development for Legal Accountability of U.S. Corporations
EarthRights International (ERI) represents human rights victims against corporate defendants in Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) cases in an effort to build precedent for holding corporations accountable in U.S. courts. This grant supports ERI's development of a formalized process for evaluating and preparing cases brought forward by affected communities or their attorneys.
Legal Program and Matching Grant
EarthRights International (ERI) represents victims of human rights abuses in Alien Tort Claims Act cases aimed at building precedent for holding corporations accountable in U.S. courts. This grant supports ERI’s Legal Program.
Warsaw and Berlin Conferences on Extraordinary Rendition
The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) is a new non-profit organization whose mission is to use strategic litigation to protect civil and human rights throughout Europe. This grant supports a convening in Warsaw, Poland, to initiate local freedom of information requests and human rights lawsuits related to the Polish government’s arbitrary detentions of suspected terrorists in secret prisons and a convening in Berlin, Germany, to coordinate ongoing litigation arising out of the involvement of European governments in the CIA’s extraordinary renditions.
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South Africa Apartheid Litigation
The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School provides students first-hand experience litigating human rights cases. This grant supports the Clinic’s legal research and other litigation support for a case seeking accountability for U.S. companies allegedly complicit in abuses committed by the South African government during the apartheid era.
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Invigorating State and Local Enforcement of Human Rights Standards
The Program on Criminal Justice Policy and Management engages in criminal justice issues through research, writing and teaching with a special focus on integrating theory with practice and academics with practitioners. This grant supports the development of a three-year Institute for state and local human rights commissions to expand their scope, procedures and practices for human rights enforcement and thereby strengthen their role and effectiveness.
Challenging Administrative Detention Project
A program of Heartland Human Care Services, the National Immigrant Justice Center engages in strategic litigation and policy advocacy to defend the legal rights of noncitizens. This grant supports impact litigation to challenge the denial of legal rights of noncitizens in administrative detention in the United States.
U.S. Law and Security Program
Human Rights First works in the United States and abroad to create a secure and humane world by advancing justice, human dignity and respect for the rule of law. This grant supports the U.S. Law and Security Program to build a domestic human rights constituency, integrate human rights rules and norms into national security policymaking, and promote the development of human rights law in U.S. courts.
International Justice Program
This grant supports the International Justice Program’s work to conduct research and advocacy to support international justice institutions.
Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program
This grant supports an expanded role for Human Rights Watch in exposing the U.S. government’s secret detention system and seeking accountability for detainee abuse.
Security and Rule of Law Program
Interights engages in strategic human rights litigation in priority thematic areas and other issues of particular regional significance or impact. This grant supports its development of a systematic legal strategy around counterterrorism.
Strasbourg Seminars for U.S. Judges
Established in 1999, the International Judicial Academy provides tailored educational programs for judges, court administrators, justice ministry officials, and other legal professionals from around the world. This grant supports educational seminars for U.S. federal and state judges on international human rights law at the seat of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
Statement Taking for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Evidence Gathering for Accountability
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights documents human rights abuses, advocates for individual victims, and educates on human rights issues. This grant supports work with the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to involve refugees in the U.S. in the truth and reconciliation process. Information obtained through this process will be made available for prosecutions and other mechanisms of accountability.
Civilian Defense Counsel for Guantanamo Detainees
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers works to advance the mission of criminal defense lawyers to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or other misconduct. This grant supports the expenses of volunteer civilian defense counsel who are representing detainees being brought to trial before military commissions in Guantanamo in an effort to ensure that these detainees are tried in accordance with international justice standards.
The National Institute of Military Justice works to advance the fair administration of military justice and foster a better public understanding of the military justice system. This grant supports the Institute’s efforts to provide expertise on military justice, military commissions, and the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law through amicus briefs, monitoring and analysis of trials and legislation, and work with the media.
Torturing Democracy: Film and Web Site Project on U.S. Policy and Practice
The National Security Archive is an independent, nongovernmental research institute and declassification resource center at The George Washington University. This grant supports the joint production of a film and Web site documenting how harsh interrogation became official U.S. policy with approval at the highest levels in the Bush Administration.
Representing Former “Black Site†Detainees
The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice was established in 2002 at New York University Law School to coordinate and expand the teaching, research, clinical, internship, and publishing activities that the school undertakes on issues of international human rights law. This grant allows the Center to work with human rights organizations and law students to continue the legal representation of two men known to have been held in C.I.A. “black sites.â€
Representing Former “Black Site” Detainees
The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice was established in 2002 at New York University Law School to coordinate and expand the teaching, research, clinical, internship, and publishing activities that the school undertakes on issues of international human rights law. This grant allows the Center to work with human rights organizations and law students to continue the legal representation of two men known to have been held in C.I.A. “black sites.”
Special Rapporteur Study on the Use of Commissions of Inquiry
The UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions is responsible for drawing attention to major violations of the right to life around the world. This grant supports a research project by the rapporteur on the use of commissions of inquiry into deaths in U.S. military custody and civilian deaths in violation of international humanitarian and human rights law.
Campaign Against Torture
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) mobilizes health professionals to stop human rights abuses in the United States and internationally through information gathering, forensic science, and advocacy. This grant supports PHR to produce a study of detainee treatment based on medical records, advocate for disclosure and accountability about the torture program, and pressure the American Psychological Association to prohibit members from participating in interrogations.
Counsel Visits for Unrepresented Detainees in Guantanamo
Reprieve provides legal representation for people facing human rights violations, particularly those on death row in the U.S. and detainees in Guantanamo. This grant helps ensure that each Guantanamo detainee at risk of repatriation to a dangerous country has the opportunity to meet with a lawyer and interpreter.
Ending Extraordinary Renditions
Reprieve provides legal representation to people who face human rights violations. With this grant, it will investigate and analyze CIA flight data and other information to assemble a complete world map of illegal activity on the part of the U.S. government in the so-called war on terror.
Counsel Visits for Unrepresented Detainees in Guantanamo, Co
This grant supports a collaboration between Reprieve and the Center for Constitutional Rights to provide legal assistance to Guantanamo detainees; JEHT support will help Reprieve focus on the international advocacy aspect of the effort.
Intelligence, Inc. Investigations Project
CorpWatch investigates corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud, and corruption around the world. This grant supports the dissemination of articles and reports exposing the role of privatization in intelligence gathering and the role of private companies in questionable human rights practices.
Right to a Fair Trial in Military Commission Proceedings
The University of Minnesota Human Rights Center works locally, nationally, and internationally to provide training, education materials, and assistance to professionals, students, and volunteers working to promote and protect human rights. This grant supports the Center’s efforts to provide legal assistance to the Defense Counsel of the Office of Military Commissions representing detainees prosecuted before constitutionally contested military commissions.
