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Hope in Action: Funding Frontline Activism Around the World
Every day, courageous human rights defenders choose to resist the forces of oppression, injustice, and inequality. For more than 15 years, the Fund for Global Human Rights has been there to support them. I have been a proud member of…
Hope in Action: Speaking Out Against Silence in India
November 26, 2019 • by Fund for Global Human Rights
Hope in Action: Standing Up for Children in Sierra Leone
November 19, 2019 • by Fund for Global Human Rights
How Changing the Narrative Could Revolutionize What It Means to Do Human Rights
November 18, 2019 • by Fund for Global Human Rights
Hope in Action: Defending Peaceful Resistance in Honduras
November 12, 2019 • by Fund for Global Human RightsHope in Action: Funding Frontline Activism Around the World
Every day, courageous human rights defenders choose to resist the forces of oppression, injustice, and inequality. For more than 15 years, the Fund for Global Human Rights has been there to support them. I have been a proud member of…
Hope in Action: Speaking Out Against Silence in India
November 26, 2019 • by Fund for Global Human Rights
Hope in Action: Standing Up for Children in Sierra Leone
November 19, 2019 • by Fund for Global Human Rights
900 Days and Counting: Protesting Corporate Land Grabs and Pollution in Honduras
October 1, 2019 • by Cheryl Blowers
Supporting Community-led Action to Protect Natural Resource Rights in West Africa
August 30, 2019 • by John Kabia
5 Things Funders Should Know About the Impact of Human Rights Activism
November 11, 2019 • by David Mattingly
Why human rights activists should work with companies – not just fight them
October 17, 2019 • by Regan Ralph
Woman by woman: crossing borders to strengthen rights in North Africa
August 2, 2019 • by Fund for Global Human Rights
“We need relationships based on trust”: how supporters can help Honduran activists
July 24, 2019 • by Robin Pierro
When child traffickers work across West Africa’s borders, activists need help to do the same
July 5, 2019 • by Fund for Global Human Rights
A culture of care: helping activists and their allies look after themselves
June 5, 2019 • by Marianne Mollman
How international solidarity saved an activist’s life in Burundi
May 24, 2019 • by Fund for Global Human RightsHow Changing the Narrative Could Revolutionize What It Means to Do Human Rights
In a new report from JustLabs and the Fund for Global Human Rights, Krizna Gomez and Thomas Coombes argue that human rights actors need more than just a better communications strategy to effect real change in today's hostile climate--they need…
Sur International Journal on Human Rights, Issue 26
January 11, 2018 • by Fund for Global Human RightsHope in Action: Defending Peaceful Resistance in Honduras
Erasmo spent 40 years building a sustainable life on his farm in southern Honduras, but then a solar energy plant opened without community consent, threatening local lands and livelihoods. Denia, member of Fund grantee MASSVIDA, is providing vital legal support to local residents fighting the construction. Part of our #HopeInAction campaign.
