By Regina Mahone, Staff Writer, Philanthropy News Digest — Cross-posted from the Foundation Center‘s PhilanTopic blog- (The video below was recorded as part of the Foundation Center’s “Flip” chat series of conversations with thought leaders in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. You can check out other videos in the series here, including a previous chat with Harish … Continue reading »
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In Focus: Eyes on the Prize: Achieving Human Rights Through Movements, Networks and Citizen Power
Contributed by Tanya Dawkins, Global-Local Links Project & CarEth Foundation, and Shalini Nataraj, Global Fund for Women- Funders play a critical role in the increasingly urgent project of strengthening the capacity of global and local citizen movements to actively engage in the design and implementation of international instruments and standards. In particular, the coming three … Continue reading »
In Focus: Building a Broad-Based Advocacy Campaign: U.S. Ratification of the Disability Rights Treaty
Contributed by Catherine Townsend, Wellsping Advisors, and Co-Chair, IHRFG Disability Rights Working Group- Human rights advocacy campaigns rarely get second chances. In late 2012, the United States Senate fell short of ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) by just 5 votes. Yet the U.S. human rights community will be afforded … Continue reading »
In Focus: Tackling Fracking Using a Human Rights Lens
Contributed by Lauren Davis, Program Associate, the 11th Hour Project – It didn’t take long to realize that hydraulic fracturing might have some serious impacts on the environment. The practice, also known as “fracking,” is a process used for extracting oil or gas that has made it easier to reach previously inaccessible deposits of shale … Continue reading »
Benchmarking Global Human Rights Grantmaking
By Christen Dobson, Programme Manager for Policy and Research at IHRFG, and Steven Lawrence, Director of Research at the Foundation Center – Cross-posted from Latest from Alliance, the blog of Alliance Magazine Can better data on global human rights funding help human rights grantmakers to collectively identify and address gaps and to promote more strategic … Continue reading »
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In Focus: Grantmaking on the Frontlines of Human Rights and Democracy Struggles in Zimbabwe
Contributed by Briggs Bomba, Project Director, Zimbabwe Alliance – For more than a decade, Zimbabweans have been struggling for democracy, decent livelihoods and basic human rights against a political elite determined to hold on to power and privilege at all costs. Heroic activism and international solidarity has put the Zimbabwe regime on the back foot. … Continue reading »
Learnings from IHRFG’s Sri Lanka Telebriefing
By Ann Hoang, Community Manager at the Asian Philanthropy Forum — cross posted from the Asian Philanthropy Forum Last Thursday’s teleconference by the International Human Rights Funders Group and EDGE Funders Alliance on the state of Sri Lankan civil society painted a sobering picture of the critical needs still unmet there. While several issues were … Continue reading »
