The Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights is a worldwide women’s fund that guards, reinforces and maintains women and transgender human rights defenders .They support women human rights defenders who are striving to create culture of justice, equality and peace.
The Urgent Action Fund builds the spirit of women’s rights and LGBT rights movements via rapid response grant making, advocacy and alliance building. This foundation is a global consortium of the Urgent Action Funds.
Focus Areas
- Women & Gender
- Human rights defenders
- Disability
- Education
- Environment
- Indigenous Communities
- LGBTQ
- Peace & Conflict Resolution
- Sexual violence
- Economic justice
Focus Countries
Urgent Action Funds for Women’s Human Rights supports all the countries of the world.
Grantees
- Iraqi Kurdistan-Preemptive Peace.
- Czech Republic- Securing Prague Pride.
- United States of America-I Am A Witness Campaign.
Eligibility Criteria-
- Strategic-Groups who already have a strategy developed or to coalitions of groups responding together to a crisis.
- Unanticipated and Time Urgent-The specific event or situation your organization is responding to was unanticipated and action must happen quickly to be effective.
- Supported-The group has the support of others involved in women’s human rights or related fields, locally or globally.
- Woman/Trans-led-Women/transgender people must be the primary decision-makers in the organization, group, or action.
To submit your project read the guidelines and submit the project proposal online or send via email, postal address or fax number provided on the website.
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