We would like to present some of the representative projects that we support here. Unfortunately, there are other projects we cannot talk about publicly in order not to endanger our partners. The situation for human rights defenders has become much more difficult in many countries. Harassment and imprisonment are not uncommon.
Defending humanity with courage
The Amnesty Human Rights Prize
Every two years, Amnesty International awards a human rights prize. It honours people who courageously defend humanity; who expose themselves to danger and repression in order to help others; who raise their voices where they are meant to be silenced; and who come to the rescue where others look the other way.
The Human Rights Foundation has funded the prize money for many years. Today, it focuses its support on strengthening the work of the prize winners in the long term and, where possible, supporting them in long-term projects.
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CARD wants to help build a network of human rights organisations
A new generation of human rights defenders in Ethiopia
Since September 2023, the Foundation for Human Rights has been supporting the project work of the Center for Advancement of Rights and Democracy (CARD). We are very pleased with the exemplary training project developed in collaboration with CARD, which aims to educate 180 secondary school students in Addis Abeba about human rights and maintaining these standards.
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Tlachinollan Activists
Mexico: Risking Lives for Human Rights Work
Time and again we read in newspapers about the crime in Mexico; the murders, the drug cartels, the fear. And far too rarely about those who resist the pressure, the threats, and stand up in the face of danger. Abel Barrera founded the Tlachinollan Human Rights Centre in the Mexican state of Guerrero in 1994 and has set himself the task of helping the indigenous population to realise their rights.
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Lawyer Henri Tiphagne
India: People’s Watch
The People’s Watch organisation, founded by Indian lawyer Henri Tiphagne, is one of the most important human rights organisations in his country. Here, too, as is so often the case, the government’s response to the commitment of the human rights activists is often pressure and bullying. Accounts were frozen, employees had to be laid off, programmes had to be discontinued.
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Detecting Spy Software
Protecting human rights activists
Supporting the „Security Lab“
Since 2022, the Foundation for Human Rights has been supporting an urgently needed cyber protection project by the Berlin Security Lab. In the digital age, human rights defenders are increasingly exposed to digital attacks. The Security Lab is currently developing a phishing warning app that will enable human rights activists to check whether they have been the victim of phishing.