Project support to combat violations of environmental and human rights law associated with Brazil's Belo Monte hydroelectric dam as well as other large dams in Mexico and Panama. Advocacy will also target multilateral financial institutions, particularly the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation and the Inter-American Development Bank.
2010
Select 2010 grants.
Project support for “Hands Off Mother Earth" (HOME), a global initiative launched at the Cochabamba Peoples' Conference on Climate Change in April 2010, focused on the threat of large-scale geo-engineering experiments. This campaign maintains that the planet’s seas, skies, and soils should not be used as a laboratory for dangerous technological "fixes" to human-induced climate change. Project support for research on the impact of biofuels on global food security and advocacy in support of technology transfer to help developing countries reduce their carbon emissions. This South Africa-based organization promotes progressive food, energy and climate policies and advocates for a world free of poverty and injustice. General support for this “action tank” dedicated to dismantling structural barriers to inclusion, securing racial equity, and expanding opportunity for all. The Project promotes reforms in election administration and voter protection and also provides legal support to community groups and civic leaders throughout the United States. General support for this New Orleans-based public interest legal and environmental justice group’s efforts to respond to the devastation inflicted by the BP/Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill. Employing human rights law and other advocacy tools, this group challenges damaging and unsustainable oil and gas extraction and defends the rights of Gulf residents to a healthy environment. Project support for global advocacy on behalf of adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights. Program strategies emphasize media outreach, policy analysis, and web-based constituency-development, including www.amplifyyourvoice, a hub for global youth-led online activism. General support to protect the Amazon's environment and indigenous populations from the hydrocarbon extraction, hydropower development, and unsustainable development. Also supplemental project support for the campaign against Brazil’s Belo Monte hydroelectric dam as well as a broader network of dams planned for the Amazon's headwaters. Project support for research and advocacy to bolster Sixth Amendment protections and strengthen indigenous defense systems. States often fail to fulfill the Constitution’s requirement that legal counsel be provided to defendants who are unable to afford their own attorneys. Project support for this "next generation” online political news network’s investigative journalism and distribution of important news stories at the state level. The network is dedicated to using quality reporting to foster public debate and advance the common good. Project support for a constitutional literacy and service project targeting South African high school youth. As the first international chapter of the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, this project teaches students about their rights and responsibilities within a constitutional democracy, exposes them to democracy in action, and develops their leadership potential.
$50,000
$65,000
$30,000
$40,000
$75,000
$120,000
$56,176
$35,000
$21,000