Issues

The activists supported by the Fund for Global Human Rights come from all walks of life—including community leaders, teachers, farmers, youth, and journalists. Motivated to create better futures for their communities, they work with and mobilize their communities to achieve lasting change.

The Fund’s work powers grassroots groups developing bold solutions to critical issues

Legal Empowerment fund

The Legal Empowerment Fund (LEF) offers long-term core funding to grassroots activists and organizations who are supporting their communities to tackle systemic injustices and advocate for expanded protections under the law.

Climate Justice

Climate change is an existential threat and also a leading cause of human rights violations. The Fund supports visionary activists who are developing community-based solutions to environmental issues and building the foundations of a sustainable future.

LGBTQ Rights

The Fund helps fuel the work of LGBTQ leaders who are disrupting discriminatory practices, overturning homophobic and transphobic laws, creating safe spaces for the LGBTQ community, and demanding justice for hate-based violence.

Building Civic Power

The Fund helps activists resist and overcome the physical, psychological, and digital threats to their work and security, while also building more vibrant, emboldened societies open to social change.

Women’s Rights

The Fund backs women who are redefining their place in society, and ensuring that all women lead lives free of violence and oppression, with equal access to economic security, healthcare, educational opportunities, and political participation.

Migrants’ Rights

The Fund supports migrants, their families, and those advocating on their behalf to create more humane migration policies, provide support along migration journeys, and end the poverty and violence that often forces people to flee their home countries.

Children’s and Youth Rights

The Fund works with youth activists and groups to ensure that children can defend their rights and can access opportunities to grow up educated, healthy, and safe.

Labor Rights

Years of corporate corruption and exploitation have eroded labor protections and undermined the right to organize. Workplaces are becoming less safe and minorities are often excluded from opportunities. The Fund works with grassroots activists across the globe to protect labor rights through collective power.