Iraq
Handicap International
Strengthening self advocacy capacities for rights and equal opportunities of Persons with disabilities in Iraq
The project will work with Iraqi people living with disabilities to become active disability stakeholders. By providing training and micro-grant support, the project will enable these groups to advocate and lobby for their rights and will help legitimise their role in the development and implementation of disability related policies. $100,000 over one year.
$100,000 over one year
Jamaica
Jamaica Association for the Deaf
Public Education Campaign on the CRPD for the Deaf
This project will develop linguistically accessible materials for the Deaf and build the capacity of advocacy teams to sensitise key stakeholder groups to engage in a rights-based approach to development for the Deaf community.
$100,000 over two years
Kenya
Kenya Human Rights Commission
Human Rights Accountability Project
This project will provide support to the Commission to increase its interventions to prevent human rights violations and integrate human rights and accountability within legal, policy and institutional reforms, through research, monitoring, reporting, and international advocacy at the United Nations.
$100,000 over one year
Lebanon
KAFA (enough) Violence and Exploitation
Legalizing the Protection of Women and Girls from Family Violence
This project will promote gender equality and empowerment of women and girls in Lebanon. It will provide social support and counselling for victims of family violence, and will lobby and mobilize decision-makers to formally adopt a draft law that protects women from family violence.
$99,540 over one year
Liberia
National Human Rights Centre of Liberia
Consolidating Human Rights and Rule of Law Culture in Rural Committees
To educate rural populations in six political sub-divisions on their human rights and undertake judicial advocacy and monitoring campaigns to ensure the rights and fair treatment of defendants and prisoners.
$88,625 over one year
