Provides financial and administrative support: legal and medical fees; find safe refuge (safe relocation); asylum process support for journalists who are victims of reprisals because of their reporting.
Requests by individuals,
NGOs or media outlets for assistance should be sent to:
Reporters Without Borders
Assistance Desk
CS 90247
75083 Paris Cedex 02
France
For individual requests for assistance: assistance2@rsf.org or +33 1 4483 8466
Legal fees; medical expenses; transportation costs when fleeing a dangerous environment; resettlement costs; financial support for family members of murdered or imprisoned journalists
(Grants vary between 500 and 1500 CAD)
Application Form: https://www.cjfe.org/journalists_in_distress_fund
Relocation, safe houses, evacuation out of the country or region); or urgent legal or medical assistance is required. (Maximum 6 months)
Information: https://www.mediasupport.org/what-we-do/safety-in-journalism/safety-fund/
* Journalists and family members who can no longer earn money can benefit.
In most cases, this is a one semester or one year position as a visiting scholar, researcher or professor at a higher education institution in a safe location anywhere in the world.
Scholars at Risk also provides advisory services for host institutions and scholars, including those still under threat as well as those forced into exile who are struggling to restart their lives and their careers.
Online Application: https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/secure-submission/
Offers an opportunity to spend five months in residence at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in Washington, D.C., in order to undertake independent research on democracy in a particular country or region. The application for the 2021-2022 period is now open. The deadline for submitting an application is October 15, 2020.
The focus of the fellowship is on helping academics to maintain and develop the skills, and the networks in the wider academic and scientific community, that they will need when they go back to their country of origin. The fellowship program very often helps the fellow’s family to join them for the duration of the fellowship as well.
Answer questionnaire to start application: https://www.cara.ngo/get-support/
* Academics at immediate risk are supported.
Includes stay in Taiwan to complete an independent research project for up to one year
Application form: http://www.tfd.org.tw/opencms/english/fellowships/international/
These yearlong fellowships support temporary academic positions at institutions of higher learning anywhere in the world where fellows can continue their work in safety. In most cases, fellows are eligible for a second and final year of fellowship support.
Professors, researchers, and public intellectuals who face threats to their lives and careers in their home countries can apply.
Application Information:http://scholarrescuefund.org/scholars/instructions-and-application
Grants in this category can be used for evacuations within a country (such as moving to a safe house in another city) or for relocation outside of a country
(mMaximum grant is 5,000 Euro)
Grant database: https://urgentactionfund.org/apply-for-a-grant/apply-for-an-evacuation-grant/
Financial support or direct material support to human rights defenders and organisations include: physical and digital security; communications; medical support (including psycho-social support and rehabilitation) to defenders who have suffered a medical condition as a result of their peaceful HR activities; legal support for human rights defenders judicially harassed; humanitarian assistance (including family support); support to temporary relocation where necessary; capacity building in security; secure transportation; urgent monitoring, reporting and advocacy