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.
As States race to agree on the UN’s reformed 2026 budget, draft proposals threaten to gut the UN’s capacity to respond to escalating human rights crises. With negotiations entering a decisive final stretch, disproportionate cuts to the human rights pillar risk turning reform into retreat.
UN human rights mechanisms examined the situation in Guatemala regarding the right to adequate housing and racial discrimination, calling for an end to forced evictions against Indigenous communities and for the protection of land defenders, including Indigenous Peoples.
Led by Chile, 41 countries warned that proposed budget cuts under the UN80 initiative would severely weaken an already underfunded UN human rights pillar. As negotiations kick off in New York, ISHR urges States to prevent disproportionate cuts to human rights and ensure the international human rights system remains credible, effective and responsive.
