The MacArthur Foundation’s important grantmaking area is ‘Human Rights and International Justice.’ This program seeks to strengthen human rights protections, advance government accountability, and improve the reach and quality of justice.
The strategy under this program seeks to address the following issues:
- Increasing threats to freedom of speech and association, ranging from intensified attacks on frontline human rights defenders to the rise of national laws that restrict the ability for civil society to operate.
- Assertive citizen movements calling for greater government accountability and demanding more protection of basic rights.
- Growing demands for localizing accountability for atrocity crimes and expanding access to justice.
Rapid advancement in communications media that is altering the way human rights advocates monitor violations, collect and manage data, and communicate with colleagues and the public.
Funding is mainly provided for “Defending freedom of expression will include attention to: responding to government pushback against human rights advocates; enhancing political accountability; strengthening media freedom and access to information; advancing Internet openness; and increasing digital security and privacy” and “Enhancing criminal justice will focus on: expanding national-level accountability for mass atrocities; helping victims realize their rights at the ICC; advancing criminal justice reform in selected countries; accessing regional human rights mechanisms; protecting civilians in conflict; and improving the quality and usefulness of human rights data.”
Although this grant has a global focus, it has prioritized countries like Russia, Nigeria and Mexico for issuing grants for projects related to human rights and justice. It also seeks to deepen its work in Africa’s Great Lakes Region – a region that has witnessed some of the most serious atrocities and one where other MacArthur international programs are active. Besides, there is consideration for engaging with a consortium of funders to improve national laws related to atrocity crimes in countries across Africa. The Foundation also works at the global level on issues, such as Internet openness and government constraints on civil society.
Under this program, the Foundation receives and considers submissions on a rolling basis throughout the year. Grant recommendations are linked to four quarterly meetings of the MacArthur Board of Directors in March, June, September, and December. It generally takes at least five months to consider grant requests, from the time a letter of inquiry is submitted until a grant is made.
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