Projects Supported with Approved Grants
Between July 2005 and June 2006: * Field Work Investigating and Producing Reports on Human Rights Violation in Rural Areas * Legal aid to village activists and to bring local officials to court for violating human rights in birth control campaigns * Investigation on Rural Education Rights Conditions in Central China * Research Report, “Respect for and Implementation of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders in China” * A project to re-open a service helping relocate victims of human rights abuses, particularly disappeared persons due to human trafficking and selling * Support for a popular independent Chinese website * Legal aid to villagers and activists detained following campaign to recall a village chief in the South * Aid to a migrant activist to provide information for rural migrants about their rights through newsletters and pamphlets in the South * The First Beijing Gay and Lesbian Culture Festival * Migrant Schools Health Education and Promotion Project in Beijing * Seed money for an advocacy and self-help group promoting the rights of people living with HIV-AIDS in the Southwes * Medical aid for a hospitalized rights activist severely beaten by plain-clothes police in the Southwest * Legal aid to an imprisoned journalist in Central China * Support for an online national communication and coordination platform for activists * Seed-money for rural activists to set up a consulting service for farmers and rural migrants in the Southwest * Aid to families of four imprisoned Internet writers to form self-help group and disseminate information in the Southwest * Support to efforts to monitor mine safety and provide training for miners in the Nort * Assistance to Families of Prisoners of Conscience, and Information Collection/Distribution of the Cases * Defending Rights within Legal Framework by Farmers Whose Land Was Appropriated * Support to an Online Platform of Action Coordination and Information Exchange among Activists * Support to Operations of a Civil Rights Defense Network * Support to a Campaign to Push the NPC to Review Laws Criminalizing Free Expression * Investigation & Monitoring Civil Rights Protection, with a focus on rural social-economic rights * Asisting Detained Villagers after a Suppressed Protest against Illegal Land Appropriation and Pollution * Funding a conference on Forced Evictions of Rural Dwellers from their Land & Redress of Rights Violations * Legal Defense for a Leader of Farmers Seeking Redress for Lost Land * Independent Investigation & Reporting of Corruption and Rights Abuses * Aid to Forced Evictions Activist who has been Detained and Tortured * Support to Editing of Monthly Publication: Updates of Human Rights * Aid to victims of police violence in rural clash over land rights Between July 2006 and March 2007: * Support to legal aid to a rural activist, “bare-foot lawyer,” going on trial; * Support to a public interest law firm to coordinate law student volunteers providing legal aid to small property owners; * Support to legal aid to Detained Villagers after a Suppressed Protest against Illegal Land Appropriation; * Support to a public interest law firm to investigate policy and legal approach to problems of forced evictions and land grabbing in rural China; * Support to a group of rural activist to monitor local rights conditions; * Support to an online forum for political discussions and bulletin of censored information; * Support to printing and distributing handbook series on legal/civil rights; * Support to legal aid to detained farmers after crushed protest against forced land eviction; * Support to equipment for making an independent documentary film about local elections; * Support to efforts monitoring rights conditions: gathering/disseminating information; * Support to efforts monitoring rural rights conditions, providing legal aid; * Support to investigation of persecution of independent academics; * Support to investigation of discrimination against school children infected with hepatitis B; * Support to investigation of migrant school closures; * Support to efforts monitoring & investigating blood-borne HIV-AIDS in rural areas; * Support to investigating Internet control on websites and blogs; * Support to compiling & producing democracy participation educational brochures; * Support to human rights information collecting & monthly publication; * Support to a lawyers’ watch group, producing a report on conditions of defense lawyers handling “sensitive” cases; * Support to a former elected rural leader carrying out educational programs on local elections. Between July 2007 and March 2008: * Support to an investigation/research project on the Re-education Through Labor camps; * Support to grassroots advocacy for human rights: Investigation, collecting information, releasing findings, providing assistance to local activists; * Support to a group of lawyers to put together legal analyses of, and responses to, the government report on a key area of human rights to a world body;; * Support to grassroots advocacy for human rights: Investigation, reporting, assisting local activities; * Support to investigation and research on Internet control and surveillance; * A research and educational project on local People's Congress elections at county-level in selected regions; * An investigative and reporting project on local People's Congress elections at county and township levels; * Documentary film promoting a culture of human rights; * Rights advocacy, investigation, and legal consultation to migrant laborers; * Rights monitoring and advocacy: information gathering and reporting; * Rights monitoring and advocacy: reporting, publication, interviews, and assistance; * Continuing support to an educational publication to raise awareness of human rights and engage citizens; * Support to investigation of media control – policy regulations, control mechanisms, and persecution of journalists; * Support to investigation and reporting on labor conditions of migrants in urban centers; * Support to an investigation/research project on the Re-education Through Labor camps; * Support to grassroots advocacy for human rights: Investigation, collecting information, releasing findings, providing assistance to local activists; * Support to a group of lawyers to put together legal analyses of, and responses to, the government report on a key area of human rights to a world body; * Support to grassroots advocacy for human rights: Investigation, reporting, assisting local activities; * Support to investigation and research on Internet control and surveillance; * Investigation, research and legal consultation in land-loss cases involving Olympics constructions; * Village election voting rights educational activities and election monitoring； * Monitoring and information gathering concerning imprisoned activists； * Investigation and research on the state implementation of the international convention against torture； Legal aid * Legal aid to a detained political dissident, who was arrested for trump-up charge of "distorting money"; * Legal/humanitarian aid to lawyers and family for a petitioner/activist sent to RTL – lawyers' visits and filing for administrative review; * Legal aid (support to lawyers) to defend the case of a writer/activist on "inciting subversion" charge; * Legal aid (support to lawyers) to file administrative review of Re-education Through ; * Labor decision and administrative lawsuit against authorities on behalf of an activist/petitioner who was sent to a RTL camp ; * Legal aid (support to lawyers) to defend the case of an activist/rural organizer for expressing criticisms of the Olympics ; * Legal aid (support to lawyers) to file administrative review of Re-education Through Labor decision and administrative lawsuit against authorities on behalf of an activist/labor organizer sent to a RTL camp ; * Legal aid to lawyers in the case of a detained activist for assisting quake victims seeking justice and other rights activities ; * Legal aid to lawyers in the case of a detained cyber activist for posting articles online about Tibet and for online organizing of anti-pollution protest ; Humanitarian aid * Special approval: Funding to contribute to the awards by the Geneva-based international housing rights group COHRE to several Chinese housing/land rights activists for their courage and contribution in organizing citizens to defend their rights ; * Humanitarian aid to former Tiananmen prisoners, who were recently released after serving long prison sentences, to assist them with medical and other difficulties ; * Humanitarian aid to a petitioner leader and activist sent to Re-education through Labor camp ; * Humanitarian aid to a former political prisoner for medical treatment;
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