RAPID RESPONSE FUNDING

The organizations below provide different forms of rapid response assistance to rights defenders in need, including legal and financial aid. Unless otherwise stated, these funds are available to human rights defenders and activists.

World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) (assisting torture victims)

Frontline Defenders

Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights (UAF) (for female rights defenders)

PEN International Emergency grant (for writers, essayists, journalists)

Agir ensemble pour les droits de l'homme (AEDH)

China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group

Rory Peck Trust (for journalists)

Forum Asia

Fund Against Censorship (for Journalists)

Chinese Human Rights Defenders

Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund (for Prisoners of conscience seeking asylum)

International Press Institute Press Freedom Fund AND Emergency Response Fund (for Journalists)

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression Journalists in Distress Fund (for Journalists)

Media Legal Defense Initiative

Scholar Rescue Fund (for Scholars)

International PEN Writer's Emergency Fund (for Writers)

Reporters Without Borders Assistance Desk (for Journalists)

Committee to Protect Journalists Assistance Fund (for Journalists)

International Federation of Journalists Safety Fund (for Journalists)

 

For more organizations that offers rapid response and emergency funding, please visit these websites:

http://www.ifex.org/distress_funds/

http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/other-sources-of-funding

HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS

OTHER RESOURCES

Links to a variety of resources and manuals for rights defenders.

Protection Online

Human Rights Digest