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Displaying records 26-36 of 36 results
All results totalling $2,948,733
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Project Title: Monitoring Human Rights Violations
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness about and monitor human rights violations in Iran and enhance communication and information access for Iranian activists. The grantee will publish a monthly report providing coverage of a wide range of human rights issues of concern to ordinary Iranians, support local monitors to carry out documentation of new cases, and compile a comprehensive record of violations.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $124,500
Project Title: Iran Human Rights Memorial Project
Organization Name: Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote the education and discussion of human rights and democracy in Iran. The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation (ABF) will grow its database and expand its on-line projects: the Human Rights and Democracy Library and Omid. ABF will monitor and document the ongoing human rights violations and disseminate its findings to the public in Iran. ABF will further advocate for accountability to its international treaty obligations and for the people they are to protect.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $9,100
Note: This amount is a supplement that was approved separately.
Project Title: Empowering Iranian Women to Demand Economic Rights
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To empower civil society to advocate for the increased legal rights of women and decrease obstacles to their integration and full participation in the national discourse. The center will increase the capacity of a local non-governmental organization to lead efforts for increased legal rights of businesswomen in Iran. This effort will build consensus among private-sector stakeholders around an advocacy campaign to reform laws that blatantly discriminate against women.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $351,532
Project Title: Iran Human Rights Memorial Project
Organization Name: Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote the education and discussion of human rights and democracy in Iran. The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation (ABF) will grow its database and expand its on-line projects: the Human Rights and Democracy Library and Omid. ABF will monitor and document the ongoing human rights violations and disseminate its findings to the public in Iran. ABF will further advocate for accountability to its international treaty obligations and for the people they are to protect.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $30,000
Note: This amount is a supplement that was approved separately.
Project Title: Raising the Legal Debate in Iran
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To raise awareness and enhance discussion among Iranian lawyers on the rule of law and fundamental rights and develop and consolidate a network of democratically minded jurists in Iran. The project will publish a Farsi-language law journal for electronic distribution among a network of Iranian lawyers, law students, and clerics in Iran.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Strengthening Independent Journalism
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance journalistic and research skills among Farsi-speaking journalists, and to galvanize citizens to press for greater transparency and accountability. Online tools and resources will be developed to help journalists utilize digital public data in reporting and provide a forum for ongoing exchange and guidance through a network of journalists.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $117,000
Project Title: Public Political Dialogue
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To improve accountability in Iran by facilitating improved communications between citizens and members of Parliament. The grantee will customize and promote a set of online tools that will allow Iranian citizens to engage elected officials in matters of concern to them through constructive dialogue.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $44,064
Project Title: Expanding Political Process Monitoring for Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To improve local cultures of accountability and civic engagement in Iran. the grantee will build the capacity of Iranian citizens to conduct community-level political process monitoring through a focused training program. By convening in-person workshops on monitoring and training skills, delivering Farsi-language materials and developing new resources, and engaging in sustained mentoring with participants, the grantee seeks to support expanded civil society accountability efforts.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $200,000
Project Title: Iran Parliament Watch
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote transparency in Iranian politics and engage citizens to advocate accountability and responsiveness to citizens' needs on the part of parliamentarians. The grantee will develop and maintain a website providing cross-referenced records of the public statements, legislative records, and other public activities of parliamentarians and candidates for office.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Engaging Civil Society in Environmental Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To mobilize public participation in initiatives aimed at ending widespread water mismanagement by national and local authorities. Project activities will raise civil society and public awareness of the role that authorities' mismanagement of water has played in Iran's current drought conditions, endeavoring to elevate the issue for debate in the public political sphere.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Iran Human Rights Memorial Project
Organization Name: Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote the education and discussion of human rights and democracy in Iran. The organization will enlarge its database and expand its online projects: the Human Rights and Democracy Library and Omid. The group will monitor and document the ongoing human rights violations and disseminate its findings to the public in Iran, and advocate for accountability to its international treaty obligations and for the people they are to protect.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $80,000
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