Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation, Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DDI/DRG) Center is inviting applications for the Justice, Rights, and Security (JRS) Annual Program Statement (APS). Deadline: 11 May 2023

The purpose of the JRS APS is to empower USAID and its Missions to seek solutions to JRS-related challenges, to engage new and underutilized partners, to solve problems not adequately addressed by other USAID investments, and to offer USAID Missions and USAID/Washington Offices a mechanism through which such work can be innovatively accomplished with dedicated support and expertise from USAID Washington DRG Center’s JRS team.

Objectives

• Promote Justice, including the following objectives:
  • To ensure the independent, efficient, and open administration of justice.
  • To enhance the quality and accessibility of justice.
  • To guarantee impartial application of the law and due process.
  • To improve justice seeker experiences and outcomes.
  • To strengthen effective checks and balances and accountable institutions as foundations of democratic governance.
• Protect Rights, including the following objectives:
  • To improve enabling environments for the protection and advancement of human rights.
  • To facilitate, develop, and implement effective remedies to address human rights violations and abuses to ensure non-recurrence.
  • To promote equal and equitable enjoyment of human rights by all.
  • To empower people to know, use, and shape the law in their daily lives to protect and advance human rights.
  • To facilitate the work of all types of human rights defenders and activists.
• Promote Security, including the following objectives:
  • To constrain the arbitrary exercise of power and tempering the use of force by civilian law enforcement.
  • To strengthen the accountability, professionalism, capacity, and integrity of police and other civilian law enforcement actors.
  • To safeguard all members of society from crime and violence, including gender-based violence, so they may live safely and recognize their full potential.

Both U.S. and Non-U.S. Non-Profit Organizations NGOs) are eligible to apply for this APS

This entry was posted on May 16, 2022 at 17:44 and is filed under human rights.

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