In 2013, Front Line Defenders provided security grants to different Human Rights Defenders around the world. Here is a list of those people/organization who received the FLD Security Grant in 2013:
- Human rights defenders Lydia Mukami and Paul Muchira and their families in Kenya to relocate temporarily and to receive counseling. Lydia Mukami had been abducted by unidentified men, physically assaulted for several hours and abandoned in the bush.
- Mbororo Social and Cultural Development Association (MBOSCUDA) in Cameroon for legal consultation and defense of six human rights defenders who were facing judicial harassment due to their work on land rights.
- Grant support to Corporación Acción Humanitaria por la Convivencia y la Paz del Nordeste Antioqueño (CAHUCOPANA) in Colombia, for safe transport for three community leaders and members of the organization to travel to Medellín to take part in meetings on HRD security.
- Grant support to Asociación para el Avance de las Ciencias Sociales (AVANCSO) for improved security of the windows, a reinforced steel door, CCTV security cameras and a motion detector, following a break-in and a brutal attack on the caretaker of the organization at its offices in Guatemala City.
- A grant for office security to HRD Fernando Perisse who founded an informal social movement called Via Sertaneja in Brazil. Perisse received threats and anonymous phone calls and is facing 21 criminal charges due to his work against corruption in public policy and spending.
- Grant for temporary relocation when members of Housing Rights Task Force in Cambodia feared reprisals after the elections in July.
- Grants for temporary relocation of three members of a rural women’s rights organization based in a tribal area in Pakistan, who had faced threats and violence, including a bomb attack on their office.
- Grant for legal fees to Shahed Kayes and his organization, Subornogram Foundation, to deal with a number of lawsuits filed against Shahed for his work promoting environmental awareness and the rights of women and children.
- For the temporary relocation of journalist Yafez Hazanov who works with Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty in Azerbaijan. Hazanov received threats and was blackmailed due to his work reporting on human rights .
- Grants to Society Without Violence, an organization working on gender equality in Armenia, for a reinforced steel door, three security cameras and external storage for the security videos. The organization had been receiving threats and hate messages from groups opposed to a new gender equality law introduced in May.
- Security grant to the Coalition of Free Lawyers in Syria, whose office was attacked by a militant group. Along with paying for metal door, windows and security CCTV cameras for their office, the grant supported towards the cost of medical treatment for an injured human rights defender and temporary relocation for the families of two others.
- Grant for the medical treatment of Vice president of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA), Ali Salem Tamek, (Western Sahara) who has been imprisoned on more than seven occasions due to his human rights work. He was mistreated while in detention and went on hunger strike a number of times to protest against his detention and the prison conditions. Since his release in 2011, he has suffered from a number of medical conditions and required surgery.
- Grants for living costs for a short period were provided to LGBTI rights defenders in the Gulf region who had lost their employment and had been ostracized from their communities due to their association with an LGBTI organization.
- Read about How to Apply for FLD Security Grants Program.
- Read about the Eligibility Criteria for Security Grants.
