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Grants>>Description of 2002 Grants: Asia
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Regional Programs: Go to 2002 Annual Report |
Bangladesh Center for International Private Enterprise $81,359 To support the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s research and advocacy, designed to promote a more open economic environment. Burma A) Capacity and Institution Building $60,000* To undertake a multifaceted legal research and education program to promote respect for human rights and the rule of law in Burma. $16,000 To support a capacity-building and leadership-training program for ethnic-nationality youth from Burma. $15,000 To support the third meeting of the Chin State Constitution Drafting Working Group and consultation with an international constitutional expert about the draft document. $80,000* To distribute human rights and democracy materials inside Burma; to train party activists in effective techniques of nonviolent political action; and to provide humanitarian support for party activists and others along the Thai-Burma border and inside Burma. $45,000 To be used towards core support and to support its national reconciliation and political solidarity program, which promotes unity among prodemocracy and ethnic forces in Burma; and to conduct basic political education training for grassroots activists from Burma. International Republican Institute $200,000 To provide partial core funding and technical and strategic support for prodemocracy political organizations in exile and to increase cooperation with Burmese ethnic nationality groups. International Republican Institute $260,000* To provide specialized training to exiled Burmese political organizations and to provide support to prodemocracy organizations in exile that disseminate information in Burma about democracy and nonviolent political action. B) Education and Outreach $15,000 To distribute material on human rights and democracy, monitor the human rights situation in Burma, and educate monks and Buddhist laypeople about the nonviolent struggle for democracy in Burma. $68,307* To research, document, and publicize the treatment and status of political prisoners in Burma and to provide basic humanitarian assistance to political prisoners and their families in Burma. $380,000* To support the implementation of the Burmese prodemocracy movement’s comprehensive strategic plan aimed at creating a political environment in Burma that is conducive to dialogue between the National League for Democracy and the Burmese military junta. $40,000* To conduct a series of leadership workshops for members; to hold capacity-building workshops for women along the Thai-Burma border; to publish a bimonthly Burmese-language newsletter; and to maintain three small reading rooms. $40,000* To conduct an intensive training-of-trainers course; to implement human rights education and training courses for grassroots participants, including women and ethnic activists; to publish a Burmese-language human rights manual; and for core support. $50,000* To support a Bangkok-based foreign affairs office to conduct diplomatic activities in Southeast and East Asia in order to build international support for the democracy movement in Burma. $10,000 To educate, train, and empower Burmese women in exile in India to take a more active role in the prodemocracy struggle and to promote women’s rights in Burma and among the exile community. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs $112,502 To provide technical assistance to Burma’s elected democratic leadership for a campaign to build international support for democracy in Burma among parliamentarians, governments, and political-party leaders worldwide. C) Humanitarian Assistance $10,000 To support training courses and workshops and to publish a bimonthly newsletter that highlights the plight of the internally displaced population. $40,000* To be used towards core support for an umbrella organization comprised of representatives from major prodemocracy and ethnic organizations, to enable it to coordinate health and education programs for refugee populations in Thailand and India and ethnic populations inside Burma. D) Information and Media $25,000* To publish and distribute an English-language bimonthly newsletter on the human rights situation in western Burma and to organize a two-week capacity-building training for forty human rights activists. $160,000* To support a twice-daily Burmese- and ethnic-language shortwave radio broadcast of independent news and opinion into Burma, and to strengthen the station’s ethnic-language programming. $40,000* To produce English-language human rights reports on conditions in southern Burma; to educate Mon inside Mon State about democracy and human rights; and to publish a bimonthly Mon-language newsletter and a monthly Mon-language newspaper for citizens in Mon State and for Mon refugees along the Thai-Burma border. $80,000* To publish a monthly English-language news magazine providing independent news and information about Burma and events in Southeast Asia, and to maintain a Burmese- and English-language Web site. $12,000* To publish a twenty-eight-page monthly trilingual newsletter that serves as an alternative news source for readers in Burma, in refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border, and in exile in Thailand. $140,000* To publish and distribute inside Burma an independent monthly Burmese-language newspaper focusing on the struggle for human rights and democracy. $25,000 To write, edit, publish, and distribute a quadrilingual monthly journal focusing on eastern Burma. $12,000* To publish and distribute two monthly human rights newsletters—one in English and one in an ethnic language—for the international community and for audiences in Burma and in exile in Thailand. $10,000 To conduct women’s empowerment and capacity-building workshops for displaced women; to document and report on the situation of women in eastern Burma; and to provide basic social services for displaced women in Thailand and inside Burma. $30,000* To conduct a series of women’s rights and empowerment training workshops in Thailand and India for Burmese women of various ethnic groups. Cambodia Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee $22,035 To be used towards partial core support for the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee, a coalition of Cambodia’s leading human rights groups, to coordinate investigations, legal assistance, advocacy, and meetings with government officials regarding significant human rights cases and issues. International Republican Institute $100,000 1999 REPROGRAMMED To support a training program for democratic political parties focused on involving newly identified activists in party-building activities, strengthening party communications, and increasing internal party democracy. China American Center for International Labor Solidarity $198,063 To assist democratic unions and labor rights organizations in Hong Kong that are working to protect worker and union rights in the South China region. American Center for International Labor Solidarity $57,202 To provide support for a bilingual Web site that serves as a basic information clearinghouse for activists and scholars involved with labor issues in China. American Center for International Labor Solidarity $60,517 To support the establishment of a center for the collection and dissemination of information relating to workers’ rights in China. American Center for International Labor Solidarity $180,480 To enable labor-rights organizations to educate workers in China about worker and trade-union rights, labor standards, and democracy issues, and to gather, analyze, and disseminate information on industrial relations and the status of trade-union rights in China. Beijing Spring Magazine $60,000* To publish the monthly Chinese-language magazine Beijing Spring, which carries analysis and commentary by authors inside and outside China regarding political developments, social issues, and the prospects for democratization in China. Center for International Private Enterprise $92,936 To support the National Economic Research Institute in conducting a series of workshops to publicize the Institute’s study on economic freedom in China and to promote public understanding of the link between economic freedom and economic development. Center for International Private Enterprise $97,573 To support the China Center for Economic Research in expanding an electronic economics-information network and facilitating greater exchange of reform-oriented ideas and proposals among Chinese economists. Center for International Private Enterprise $49,683 To support the Unirule Institute of Economics in conducting biweekly symposia on issues related to China’s transition to a market economy, and in reproducing and distributing symposium papers. Center for Modern China $115,000* To publish Modern China Studies, a quarterly Chinese-language journal of economic and social-science research concerning liberal, democratic solutions to contemporary policy questions in China. China Information Center $400,000* To establish and maintain a Chinese-language Web site that features independent news and analyses of world events and domestic Chinese developments mainland and overseas Chinese. Democratic China Magazine $100,000 To publish its monthly Chinese-language Internet magazine on politics, society, and culture, promoting democracy and pluralism in China. Foundation for China in the 21st Century $160,000* To carry out a multifaceted program of research, publications, and seminars on questions of interethnic relations, education, and democracy in China. Human Rights in China $300,000 To be used towards core support for its program of human rights information-gathering, reporting, publicity, and advocacy; to support victims of political persecution; and for the production and circulation of materials informing Chinese citizens about their rights. International Republican Institute $400,000 To support electoral reform at the village level, promotion and development of legal-aid programs at the national and provincial levels, legislative and public-policy-implementation reform at the national level, and a project to promote the broadening of Chinese elections. Laogai Research Foundation $261,000* To conduct an extensive research and publication program on the Chinese forced-labor prison camps (laogai) and to investigate and document other human rights violations occurring in China. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs $205,076 To organize resources and activities, in partnership with the Center for the Study of People’s Congress and Foreign Legislatures at Peking University Law School, in order to educate Chinese legislative members and staff, researchers, and students about democratic legislative norms and processes; and to provide materials, direct technical assistance, and other resources to Hong Kong organizations advocating for democratic reform in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Press Freedom Guardian Newspaper $88,000* To publish its Chinese-language newspaper, which covers issues related to human rights, democratization, and the activities of the Chinese democracy movement and which is disseminated in China and abroad through print copies, e-mail subscriptions, and a Web site. China (Hong Kong) Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor $51,000 To carry out human rights reporting, casework, campaigning, and public education, drawing local and international public attention to areas of Hong Kong law and practice that fail to safeguard human rights. China (Tibet) International Campaign for Tibet $30,000 To support a program of meetings and publications designed to improve communication between Tibetans and Chinese concerning a democratic future for Tibet and China. Tibet Information Network $80,000* To disseminate independent news analysis and reporting on Tibet. Tibet Justice Center $37,618* To organize a series of workshops, publish a Tibetan-language booklet, and develop a training manual to facilitate discussions about autonomy and other self-governing arrangements for a future democratic Tibet. Tibetan Literary Society $25,000* To publish and distribute throughout Tibetan exile communities and within Tibet Bod-Kyi-Dus-Bab (Tibet Times), a Tibetan-language newspaper published three times per month. Tibetan Multimedia Center $30,000 To disseminate news and information about the struggle for a democratic Tibet to audiences inside Tibet and China and to Chinese democrats throughout the world, Tibetans in exile, and the Indian public. Tibetan Review Trust Society $20,000 To publish and distribute Tibetan Review, a monthly English-language news magazine. Tibetan Youth Congress $15,000* To organize and implement an intensive leadership-training course for Tibetan college students in India, facilitating their involvement in the political struggle for democracy and human rights in Tibet. Voice of Tibet $15,000* To support an independent, Tibetan-language, shortwave radio station providing regular news about Tibet, the Tibetan exile community, and the Tibetan government-in-exile, for listeners in Tibet and in exile in neighboring countries. Indonesia Commission for Disappearances and Victims of Violence (KontraS) $12,000 To replace equipment destroyed during a politically motivated attack on the KontraS office. KontraS works to monitor, document, and report on the human rights situation in Indonesia. Malaysia Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia) $60,500 To support human rights awareness programs and advocacy campaigns aimed at strengthening human rights protections in Malaysia. International Republican Institute $25,000 To develop a pilot program for public-opinion polling in Malaysia. International Republican Institute $126,254 To conduct public-opinion polling and to organize training workshops for political parties on the use of polling data for voter outreach and message development. Mongolia Liberal Emegteichuudiin Oyuny San (LEOS) $34,000 To be used towards core funding for LEOS, one of Mongolia’s leading women’s NGOs, and to support its programs fostering democratic education, the development of civil society, and the participation of women in public life. North Korea Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights $151,865* To support research into human rights abuses and prison-camp operations in North Korea, and to support the Citizens’ Alliance’s campaign to bring North Korean human rights issues to the attention of South Koreans and the international community. Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights $60,000* To maintain Korean- and English-language versions of its Web site; to conduct a series of workshops for South Korean college students on North Korean human rights; and to publish a Korean-language monthly bulletin and a Japanese- and English-language quarterly, drawing international attention to the issues of democratization and human rights in North Korea. Pakistan American Center for International Labor Solidarity $165,188 To support the programs of Labor Watch Network and the Society for Protection of the Rights of the Child for a female workers’ rights project carried out by Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid and to support the All Pakistan Federation of Labor’s education project for local labor leaders. Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia) $61,000 To support the Asian Network for Free Elections in monitoring the October 2002 parliamentary elections in Pakistan by organizing both short- and long-term observer delegations. Sri Lanka American Center for International Labor Solidarity $74,840 To promote women’s rights, legal aid, conflict resolution, and trade-union advocacy. Center for International Private Enterprise $71,101 To provide the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Sri Lanka with support for research and advocacy designed to promote a more open economic environment. Vietnam Association for Vietnamese Overseas: Culture and Liaison $70,000 To publish Que Me, a bimonthly Vietnamese-language magazine that provides uncensored news and promotes democratic values, and to raise awareness of human rights abuses in Vietnam. Center for International Private Enterprise $41,230 To support the production of the Economics University of Ho Chi Minh City’s radio and television broadcasts through which private-business owners can learn about and speak out on policy issues that affect private enterprise in Vietnam. Asia Regional American Center for International Labor Solidarity $522,316 To broaden the civic participation of workers in Thailand by promoting labor-law reform and enhancing worker participation in the political process; to conduct a research and capacity-building project for ethnic-nationality groups in Southeast Asia and to conduct a series of seminars for local union leaders in Malaysia on democratic rights. American Center for International Labor Solidarity $425,033* To work from its Washington, DC, office to support the program of the independent labor movement in exile to educate workers and other citizens, both exiled and inside Burma, about labor rights and democracy, and to document violations of internationally recognized labor rights. American Center for International Labor Solidarity $289,729 To strengthen the rule of law in five countries in the region by conducting labor-law research, promoting dialogue, and furnishing technical support to concerned legal activists, scholars, community groups, and NGOs. Center for International Private Enterprise $94,738 To support the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility in initiating discussions in Indonesia and the Philippines among provincial media, business, and local government about freedom-of-information issues, particularly those relating to anticorruption efforts and governmental transparency. Center for International Private Enterprise $138,151 To support the Association of Development Finance Institutions in Asia and the Pacific in increasing awareness of international corporate-governance standards among development-finance institutions and recommending reforms advancing market forces rather than government influence in lending and investment in the region. International Center for Ethnic Studies $50,000 To design and implement a South Asian regional human rights training program to strengthen civil society organizations that focus on the promotion and protection of minority rights. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs $232,656 To support the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats in providing technical assistance and support materials to political parties implementing internal anticorruption reform measures, and in assisting parties with conducting constituent-outreach activities and fostering greater public involvement in the development of the parties’ anticorruption efforts. *Indicates funding source other than annual congressional appropriation |
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