Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights

Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights, a sister-fund of the Urgent Action Fund - Africa, Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights - Asia and Pacific, and the Urgent Action Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean, is a women’s fund that protects, strengthens, and sustains women and transgender human rights defenders at critical moments. 

The Fund offers Rapid Response Grants to women and transgender human rights defenders in Central Asia, the Middle East, Western and Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, Russia, Turkey, the United States, and Canada.

Grants of up to $8,000 are provided in the following categories:

• Security Grants
  These grants provide support when the safety and security of women or trans* human rights defenders, activists, organizations are threatened due to their human rights work.
   
• Opportunity Grants
  These grants provide support when there is an unexpected moment or opportunity for advocacy or mobilization that may result in advancements for women’s and LBTQI’s rights, such as changes in legal decisions, policy and laws, or a shift in public attitudes and practices in their local context.

Grant proposals must fit the following criteria:

• women/trans people must be the primary decision-makers in the organization, group, or action;
• the actions proposed will promote the advancement of women’s or trans human rights using nonviolent tactics or strategies;
• the specific event or situation the organization is responding to was unanticipated, and actions must happen quickly to be effective; and,
• the group has the support of others involved in women’s human rights or related fields, locally or globally.

Grants are not provided to/for:

• individual requests without an organization or network affiliation;
• cisgender male-led organizations or networks;
• natural disaster relief;
• long-term development aid or charity assistance;
• annual operating costs; or
• bridge funding (to fill a funding gap).

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