For the next seven days, every time a member of the public makes a donation, our friends at DLA Piper will match it - dollar for dollar!
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Great news: It seems generosity and passion for human rights is infectious.
In just two weeks, we’ve received over $15,000 in donations from people like you who are passionate about supporting the next generation of human rights defenders – activists like Victoria, who shares her learnings in the below video after participating in our 2017 Human Rights Defender Advocacy Programme.
Inspired by the response to our December fundraising appeal, for the next seven days our friends at global law firm DLA Piper have generously agreed to match – dollar for dollar – donations from members of the public.
That means if you donate $100 this week, ISHR will receive $200!
Big or small, every single donation will help fund our 2018 human rights defenders scholarship programme.
Here’s how:
Please, invest in the future of human rights: empower a human rights defender and contribute to transformative human rights change today.
Big thanks to everyone who has donated so far.
In light of the UN’s liquidity crisis since 2024, ISHR compares when UN Member States are paying their assessed contributions to the UN’s regular budget over the period 2019-2025.
ISHR analysed how UN Member States voted at the General Assembly Fifth Committee over the past seven years (2018-2024) on initiatives that seek to defund Human Rights Council (HRC) resolutions establishing investigative mechanisms on specific countries. None of these initiatives have so far been successful.
In a first-of-its-kind investigation into the closed-door negotiations of the UN’s budget in New York, ISHR uncovers how a small group of States - led by China and Russia - have coordinated efforts to block and slash funding for the UN’s human rights work through political manoeuvring and influence. At a moment of sweeping UN reform and financial crisis, these efforts - compounded by the US failure to pay their UN membership fees and outstanding debts - pose an existential threat to the UN’s human rights system.
