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The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) has begun accepting applications for its Financial Support Program for Human Rights Defenders at Risk, which it has launched as part of its efforts to show solidarity with human rights defenders who are engaged in activities to protect and promote human rights and who face pressure and difficulties as a result of these activities.
The program aims to strengthen the human rights movement through a grassroots approach. Designed with the goal of protecting human dignity and creating a world free of torture, the program aims to alleviate the economic and psychosocial difficulties faced by advocates despite limited resources.
Who can apply?
All human rights defenders who face pressure and difficulties due to their activities aimed at protecting and promoting human rights can apply for support. The following list is not exhaustive, but the human rights violations listed below will be considered as pressure and difficulties faced by human rights defenders.
- Physical and verbal attacks and threats by public officials or third parties acting at the instigation or encouragement of public officials due to activities in the field of human rights
- Torture and other ill-treatment
- Enforced disappearance
- Extrajudicial executions and unsolved murders
- Judicial harassment (detention, arbitrary detention, investigation, prosecution, arrest, etc.) and administrative harassment (administrative proceedings, administrative fines, etc.)
- Stigmatization, marginalization, and targeting (by statements made by officials, the media, pro-government individuals and institutions, or third parties, etc.)
For more information: https://ihs.tihv.org.tr/ihsmaddidestek/
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