The Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor awarded $987,540 to Accountability Lab under the International Programs to Support Democracy, Human Rights and Labor federal grant program (CFDA 19.345) to create an informed civil society and support at-risk groups in Bangladesh from September 2022 through September 2024. The award will fund projects to operate without threats of censorship, harassment, and violence for youth, journalists, civil society organizations, women,...
The Bangladesh Legal Aid And Services Trust will receive $1 million under a Project Grant award from the Department of State Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor. The funding will support work with marginalized gender diverse community organizations in Bangladesh to develop sustainable and secure visibility for the full spectrum of gender diversity from September 26, 2022 through December 31, 2025. This award is provided through the International Programs to Support Democracy, Human Rights...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) under the International Programs to Support Democracy, Human Rights and Labor program (CFDA 19.345), aims to support civil society in Sri Lanka to address challenges and opportunities arising from the political transition by advancing respect and protection of human and political rights. The $740,740 grant, awarded on August 15, 2023, will be implemented by The Asia Foundation, a...
The Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor awarded a $987,654 project grant to BBC Media Action under the International Programs to Support Democracy, Human Rights and Labor federal grant program (CFDA 19.345). The goal of the project is to combat discrimination and intolerance on the basis of religion by confronting online hate speech and promoting positive narratives of social inclusion in media designed and created by adolescent girls and young women in Myanmar. The...
The Asia Foundation was awarded a $34.1 million Project Grant from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs to sustain the annual operations and programs of the foundation through June 30, 2023. The grant is being administered under the Bureau's East Asia and Pacific Grants Program (CFDA 19.124), which supports the foreign assistance goals and objectives of the Department of State, Bureau of East Asian Affairs as outlined in the fiscal year Bureau Strategic and...
The Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor awarded $486,110 under the International Programs to Support Democracy, Human Rights and Labor federal grant program to increase protection of diaspora and exile communities in selected countries from transnational repression and identify effective approaches to preventing and responding to such incidents. Freedom House, Inc. will deliver services from September 2022 to November 2023 in the United States under this Project Grant...
This $493,339 Project Grant award, provided under the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism's Global Counterterrorism Programs (CFDA 19.701), aims to prevent the further spread of violent extremism in Bangladesh. The funding will assist Bangladesh's efforts to prevent arrested individuals from persisting in terrorist-related activities while incarcerated or following their release. Global Center On Cooperative Security, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C.,...
The Department of State Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor awarded a $750,000 Project Grant to the Asian University for Women (Auw) Support Foundation, Inc. under the International Programs to Support Democracy, Human Rights and Labor federal grant program (CFDA 19.345). The grant will provide a liberal arts and sciences university education and human rights leadership training to ten Pakistani women from unserved and marginalized communities at AuW. The training will be delivered from...
The Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor awarded a $925,000 Project Grant to Service International Pour Les Droits De L'Homme to equip Chinese human rights defenders to engage with the UN human rights system and push for accountability and improved access to rights. This award will be carried out from September 30, 2022 through September 30, 2025 under the International Programs to Support Democracy, Human Rights and Labor program (CFDA 19.345). This program funds...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $13,560,800.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs under the East Asia and Pacific Grants Program (CFDA 19.124) to sustain the annual operations and programs of The Asia Foundation. The award, with a performance period from December 9, 2024 to August 1, 2026, will enable The Asia Foundation, a non-profit international development organization headquartered in San Francisco, to continue delivering a...