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
Efficient assistance through temporary relocation; trial observation; other types of urgent assistance (such as medical support fees).
(Maximum grant is 5,000 EUR)
Information: https://www.forum-asia.org/?p=7302
Email: protection@forum-asia.org
Tel: +66(0)263-79-126 ext. no. 201
* The human rights defender applying for assistance should be endorsed by one of FORUM-ASIA’s member/partner organisations.
The Oak Fellowship is a faculty position. The Fellow’s primary responsibility is to teach about human rights issues in his or her area,
The online application form is available in September, and the deadline is December.
Link: http://www.colby.edu/oakinstitute/oak-fellowship-2016-application/
* The program accepts one human rights professional.
Financial
assistance, including grants that address security, medical expenses, legal
representation, prison visits, trial monitoring, temporary relocation,
equipment replacement, and other urgently needed expenses
Information: https://www.csolifeline.org/emergency-assistance
To apply, contact: info@csolifeline.org
Evacuation aid, relocation assistance, legal assistance, medical aid and intervention with authorities
Information: http://www.aedh.org/en/home/what-we-do/emergency-fund-for-human-rights-defenders?id=224
Phone number: + 33 (0)4 37 37 10 11
Medical expenses; legal representation; prison visits; trial monitoring; temporary relocation; dependent support; security and equipment replacement; other urgent matters.
Information: https://freedomhouse.org/program/dignity-all-lgbti-assistance-program
* Civil Society organizations are supported due to their work for LGBTI rights.
Legal defence; support the families of land rights activists arrested on spurious charges; help political prisoners suffering illness or injury to get medical treatment; assist anti-corruption groups in replacing confiscated computers and installing security cameras after their offices are raided; help youth activists relocate to safety when their lives are threatened
Contact
relevant authorities, raising the case through the EU or individual government
representatives; assist in temporary relocation; or assistance with medical/legal
expenses
(maximum grant is 10,000 EUR)
Emergency Grant Application: https://www.protectdefenders.eu/en/supporting-defenders.html
Hotline:
+353 (0) 1 21 00 489
Opportunity to engage in training, networking, project work, and academic study in historical dialogue and related fields at Columbia University in New York City for the fall semester. The comprehensive fellowship program provides fellows with the opportunity to hone practical skills in fundraising, advocacy and leadership; to develop a deeper understanding of and engagement with the past; and to foster mutually beneficial relationships with their peers and with international and non-profit organizations based in New York and Washington, D.C.
Financial aid helping HRDs to continue work in their home country OR chance to travel to Spain, for a period of several weeks to provide a period of rest to be used for their physical and psychological recovery
Contact Form: http://www.defenred.org/paginas/contact/