The Council for Global Equality has recently published a guide called “Accessing US Embassies: A Guide for LGBT Human Rights Defenders” to assist non-US NGOs to help them understand how to access support from US embassies around the world.
The guide is particularly useful for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists and NGOs in various countries outside the United states “to help them understand how U.S. embassies work; how to call on U.S. diplomats to support their human rights goals; how to access U.S. support, including both technical and financial support; and how to frame requests in ways that will appeal to strategic U.S. priorities.”
“The guide also emphasizes the limits of U.S. embassy support and the potential that exists for backlash in some hostile environments. By presenting both the opportunities and potential pitfalls of U.S. embassy engagement, and by highlighting those with concrete examples, the Council aims to provide both the information and the context that will allow individual human rights defenders and organizations to decide for themselves whether they want to approach U.S. embassies as partners in their work.”
Besides providing financial support to human rights projects, US embassies around the world have also been involved in providing shelter to human rights activities to protect them from any persecution from their own governments. In order to seek help from the embassies, it is important to understand how it functions, in what way it responds and how is it organized. With this guide, NGOs will get a good understanding of the way US embassies work and support NGOs for defending human rights, espcially LGBT rights.
The guide is available for free and it can be downloaded from this link.
As a church, we do not support the idear of the practices of (L.G.B.T) progress. the church has a sound teaching about sex and marriage which outweigh the current movement.Only that we need the church empowered to reach it’s goals.
Your support to enhance the church progress is highly appreciated.
Thanks Christ the shepherd Church.
the Church is Located in the Northern Part of the country Uganda East Africa.
Goodday Sir,my organisation is into free health care for less privilege and all do youth empowerment.please how can the US Embassey help us sustain this noble vision.thank you
Dear sir,our organisation works on human right and health matter how can the embassy help the organization on funding
Patanisho Volunteers International members dream
The members, the officials and the entire team of Patanisho Volunteers International organization have a dream.
This dream is about the dyeing of our youth in the wildness of unemployment poverty, illiteracy and health care. We are killing our future and the indie world if we cannot solve this problem now.
In Kenya, alone we have an additional of 40% youth who join in the field of an employments yearly out of this population, 25% are university graduates, 30% are holders of secondary school certificates after staying in school for twelve years. 45% are school dropout. This means that their do not have any education certificate due to lack of financial support.
These youth are becoming dangerous day and night by forming malicious dangerous groups and joining international terror groups. We never new in Kenya that our own sons/daughters from Nyanza, Western, Rift Valley are members of Alkaida, alshababu and many others local like Mungiki in Kenya.
All these are the results of a few People who are educated but they are idols they do not have something to do for the daily leaving. Others do not have land, no education and they are known us squatters. To them they assume not to be Kenyans, because they do not have anything to make them think like a Kenyan.
As I write this document now things are running out of control. About 10millions of Kenyans do not have employment or land/a home; they are known us squatters in their motherland country. This people are very idle, and our politicians are taking this advantage, miss direct and engage them in illicit drinking, so that they can support them at the time of voting. This is caused by poor infrastructure and planning by our government. It has resulted into poverty, insecurity, spreading of HIV/AIDS and death from illicit drinking.
What can we do to change the situation? Our vision is “alleviation of poverty through enter prices and job creation” to work for economic and social empowerment of women, men and youth.
Please join us to fight this war so that this world can be a peaceful place to stay for all without tension of insecurity, war-allots and political rivals.
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Dear Sir,
Our NGO work on policing citizens human rights using the strategy of partnership between formal and informal policing groups in Nigeria, does American Embassy in Nigeria or its Consulate General in Lagos support this kind of work? If yes who can we approach. Thanks
Desr Sir,
Our NGO,is working Noakhali in Bangladesh without any support.Can we seek US Embassy in Bangladesh.If us,whom to approch.
The project aims to defend adolescent girls of Nzega district by mobilizing community to prevent unwanted pregnancies and enable girls to complete primary, secondary and higher learning education in a sustainable way.
The main intervention will include; Prevention and combating of school girls’ pregnancies defend adolescent girls accessing education, reproductive health, mobilizing community participating in the discussions of construction school Hostels or dormitories around secondary schools, traditional practices, care and support impregnated girls attaining vocational skills training and networking education and advocacy on school girls pregnancies.
The project will provide a sustainable approach to schoolgirls’ pregnancies control through, community mobilizing and participation in training and discussions on prevention and combating schoolgirls’ pregnancies. It will also mitigate the impact of distance between home and schools, lack of enough training on reproductive health to adolescent girls, renting and traditional practices as the main opportunistic factors that tends to school girls pregnancies. The project activities will be undertaken in close partnership with Nzega District Council, Police Station, and Court and the Ministry of Education for prevention and Control schoolgirls’ pregnancy will guide wards government the implementation of the project
Dear Sir, Our CBO is a youth based human rights/Tree planting organization based working in Northern Uganda, Secondly we are sending two young men to United states in December 15 2012 upto jan 20 2013 for a workshop-can we get support for Airticket as we look for visas for the two participants,how can we seek support from US embassy and who to contact for assistance.
Looking forward to hear from you.
Thomas Okumu
Cordinator
Dear sir,
Our NGO,Criminologists society is working in j&k state in India in most hostile conditions,without any support.Can we seek US Embassy in Delhi.If yes,whom to approach.