Grant Program International Human Rights

To promote human rights in Latin America by working with and supporting human rights organizations in the region and attempting to influence US policy in regard to Latin America.

To promote human rights in Colombia using litigation, policy analysis and public education.

To promote and protect the rights of displaced people in Colombia.

To conduct forensic human rights investigations and training in Argentina, Colombia, El Salvador and Mexico.

To educate and train human rights practitioners and policymakers for the defense and promotion of women’s rights within the framework of international law.

To allow Habib Rahiab, an endangered human rights advocate in Afghanistan, to flee the country and seek temporary refuge elsewhere.

To send a high-level human rights mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo to generate US support for a UN Security Council resolution that would mandate 12,000 peacekeepers to address the severe humanitarian and human rights crisis in the Congo.

To monitor, report on, and publicize forced disappearances in Colombia.

To litigate cases of human rights violations in Argentina before federal and international courts.

To preserve archival documents relating to human rights in Chile in the 20th century.