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Grants >> Description of 2003 Grants: Asia
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Regional Programs: Go to 2003 Annual Report |
Bangladesh Center for International Private Enterprise $95,652 To support the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s research and advocacy efforts to promote a more open and transparent economic environment and to support a women’s entrepreneurial development program. Burma A) Capacity and Institutional Building $105,000* To undertake a multifaceted legal research and education program to promote respect for human rights and the rule of law in Burma. $15,000* To convene a meeting of the Chin State Constitution Drafting Working Group. $80,000* To distribute human rights and democracy materials inside Burma; to train party activists in techniques of nonviolent political action; and to provide humanitarian support for party activists and others along the Thai-Burma border and inside Burma. $20,000* To carry out a broad-based support program for ethnic women from Burma in Thailand and inside eastern Burma. Current programs include women’s empowerment, capacity building, information and documentation, crisis support, skills training and micro-enterprise, primary health, and basic education. International Republican Institute $240,000 To provide specialized training to exiled Burmese political organizations that disseminate information in Burma about democracy and nonviolent political action. International Republican Institute $230,000* To provide funding and technical assistance for prodemocracy organizations and to increase cooperation between prodemocracy organizations and ethnic nationality groups. $42,000 To support a national reconciliation and political solidarity program that promotes unity among prodemocracy and ethnic forces in Burma; and to conduct basic political education training for grassroots activists from Burma. $30,000* To improve coordination and cooperation among Burmese women’s groups; to conduct a series of women’s rights and empowerment training workshops; and to advocate for women’s political rights. B) Education and Outreach $15,000 To produce and distribute human rights and democracy materials, including pamphlets, stickers, and calendars, for distribution within Burma and to work to educate monks and Buddhist laypeople about democracy and human rights. $50,000 To support a program of civic education and teacher training for Karen and Karenni educators. The program will provide civic education for Burmese teachers in refugee camps on the Thai-Burma border and will develop teams of teacher-trainers to travel into Burma to reach even less accessible populations. It will also publish a small resource book containing essential democracy and human rights documents that can be used in classrooms and training workshops. $80,000* To continue to research, document, and publicize the treatment and status of political prisoners in Burma; to provide basic humanitarian assistance to political prisoners and their families; and to raise international awareness of the human rights crisis inside Burma. $40,000* To organize a series of women’s empowerment and peace education training courses; to research and write a report on the trafficking and prostitution of Burmese children; and to publish a bimonthly newsletter. $50,000* To conduct an intensive training-of-trainers course; to implement human rights education and training courses for grassroots participants, including women and ethnic activists; and to publish a Kachin-language human rights manual. $39,000 To increase awareness about political developments in Burma, and to strengthen international support for Burma’s prodemocracy movement. $50,000 To support a Bangkok-based foreign affairs of.ce to conduct diplomatic activities in Southeast, South and East Asia to build international support for the democracy movement in Burma. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs $119,961 To build international support for democracy in Burma among parliamentarians, governments, and political party leaders worldwide. $320,000* 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, other ethnic nationalities and the Burmese military government. $15,000* To support ethnic nationality political parties, and to promote tripartite dialogue in Burma, by ensuring that the leading ethnic political leaders have access to basic communication equipment as well as adequate funds to travel and meet with constituents and other political leaders. C) Humanitarian Assistance $15,000 To conduct training courses and workshops, and to publish a bi-monthly newsletter that highlights the plight of internally displaced persons. $30,000* To support an umbrella organization composed 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. Information and Media $40,000* To produce reports on conditions inside Burma and provide assistance for prodemocracy activists to support human rights and democratic reform in Burma; to publish 2,000 copies of a quarterly report that grades Burma on such topics as health, education, human rights, and the economy; and to produce a number of videos. $25,000 To publish an English-language monthly newsletter on the human rights situation in Western Burma and to conduct a capacity building program for human rights activists. $175,000* To continue producing and transmitting a twice-daily shortwave radio program from studios in Oslo while focusing on improving programmatic quality and administration, investing in advanced training and education for staff, and securing additional transmission facilities. $45,000* To produce English-language human rights reports on conditions in southern Burma; to educate citizens in southern Burma about democracy and human rights; and to publish a bimonthly ethnic language newsletter and a monthly ethnic language newspaper for refugees along the Thailand-Burma border. $100,000* To publish and distribute an English-language magazine; to maintain a Burmese- and English-language Web page; and to expand an internship and training program for Burmese journalists inside Burma and in exile. $12,000 To publish a twenty-eight-page, monthly, bilingual newsletter that provides an alternative news source for readers in Burma, in refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border, and in exile in Thailand. Between 1,500 and 2,000 copies of each issue will be distributed in Burma and Thailand and internationally. $100,000* To publish and distribute a monthly Burmese-language newspaper that includes extensive coverage of the Burmese prodemocracy movement and situation in Burma and complete texts of speeches and policy statements of Burmese prodemocracy leaders and organizations. $25,000 To promote democracy and human rights in eastern Burma through the publication of a monthly ethnic language newspaper, which provides news and information about eastern Burma. $15,000* To publish a bilingual version of a monthly human rights newsletter, to inform people about the basic principles of human rights and democracy, international mechanisms to protect human rights, and the human rights situation in eastern Burma. Cambodia Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development $30,000 To help the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL),organize both short- and long-term election observation delegations for the July 2003 Cambodia National Assembly elections. Throughout the election cycle, ANFREL will publicize its findings through statements, press releases, and reports. Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee $22,000 To support a coalition of Cambodia’s leading human rights groups by coordinating investigations, legal assistance, advocacy, and meetings with government officials regarding significant human rights cases and issues. Documentation Center of Cambodia $35,000 To produce a digital archive of the nearly 36,000 photographs in the Center’s collections and to publish five books of photographs based on this collection. The photo project aims to encourage citizen participation in the national debate on how best to deal with former Khmer Rouge leaders and their legacy. China American Center for International Labor Solidarity $65,160 To support the work of an online center for the collection and dissemination of information relating to workers' rights in China. The center will also distribute an email newsletter containing information about developments in China's labor community. Beijing Spring, Inc. $90,000* 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 $88,610 To support advocacy activities on a variety of reforms related to rule of law and privatization; through public discussions, speeches, publications, and a conference. Center for International Private Enterprise $531,532 To engage with Chinese groups on six projects designed to enable entrepreneurs, economists, and corporate actors to play an enhanced transparent and democratic role in public policy development, as well as to publish a new Chinese-language online periodical, Journal of Private Enterprise. Center for International Private Enterprise $85,760 To work with the China Center for Economic Research to support an electronic economics information network and to facilitate greater exchange of reform-oriented ideas and proposals among Chinese economists. Center for International Private Enterprise $53,151 To support the Unirule Institute of Economics’ bi-weekly symposia with private entrepreneurs, academics, government officials, and journalists on China’s reform process. Unirule will also disseminate symposium papers to private entrepreneurs, academics, and government officials interested in economic reform. Center for Modern China $148,000* 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; and to maintain a website and publish books on democratization in China. China Information Center $404,105* To disseminate news and independent analysis of developments in China and important international events through two Chinese-language websites and an e-mail list. Democratic China $135,000 To produce a Chinese-language monthly Internet magazine on politics, society, and culture, promoting democracy and pluralism in China. Democratic China will additionally pursue an experimental program providing subsidies to enable publication and distribution in China of books that would otherwise not be publishable due to their political sensitivity. Foundation for China in the 21st Century $160,000* To support the Chinese-language Internet periodical, China E-Weekly, and to carry out a multi-faceted program of publications and conferences on questions of rural governance, political reform, and paths to constitutional democracy in China. Human Rights in China $350,000 To support human rights documentation, reporting, publicity, and advocacy; direct support for victims of political persecution; and production and circulation of materials informing Chinese citizens about their rights. International Republican Institute $350,000 To support a program to promote the broadening of Chinese elections; to promote electoral reform at the village and urban levels; to support the training of rural women in political participation; and to develop materials on civic education. Laogai Research Foundation $292,981* To support a research and publication program on Chinese forced-labor prison camps (laogai) and to investigate and document other human rights violations occurring in China. Press Freedom Guardian $88,000* To support a Chinese-language newspaper that covers politics, current events, human rights, democratization, and the activities of the Chinese democracy movement, that is disseminated in China and abroad through print copies, e-mail subscriptions, and a website. China (Hong Kong) Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor $60,000 To carry out human rights reporting, casework, campaigning and public education, drawing local and international attention to civil and human rights developments in Hong Kong. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs $179,999 To provide technical assistance and training to Hong Kong political parties to strengthen the role of parties in Hong Kong, and to support pro-democracy civil society organizations in their efforts to draw attention to the deterioration of political rights in the territory. China (Tibet) International Campaign for Tibet $45,000 To support publications and a series of meetings designed to improve communication between Tibetans and Chinese concerning a democratic future for China and Tibet. Social and Resource Development Fund $50,000* To support the Fund for Democracy and Human Rights Education, a Tibetan-managed mini-grants project that provides modest support for Tibetan organizations working to educate their communities about democracy and human rights and to increase participation in the political process. Tibet Information Network $80,000* To disseminate independent news analysis and reporting on Tibet. Tibet Institute $40,000 To purchase an offset printing press to facilitate the Institute’s capacity-building and civic awareness efforts; and for the distribution of books, magazines, and brochures on Tibet within Tibetan communities in Nepal. Tibetan Literary Society $25,000* To publish and distribute throughout the Tibetan community in exile and in Tibet Bod-Kyi-Dus-Bab (Tibet Times), a Tibetan-language newspaper published three times per month. Tibet Museum $15,000 To collect, preserve and present material relating to modern Tibetan history, to commemorate the loss of Tibetan culture and lives as a result of the Chinese occupation, and to project the hopes and aspirations of the Tibetan people for a brighter future. Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy $14,000* To conduct a week-long workshop for Tibetan leaders to discuss the human rights situation in Tibet and ongoing efforts to start a democratic government in exile. Tibetan Parliamentary and Policy Research Centre $18,865* To hold two15-day working group sessions to explore potential forms of Tibetan autonomy. In preparation for the workshops, the TPPRC will commission an expert to prepare a briefing book that provides relevant documents and comparative models of the distribution and division of powers among governmental institutions. Tibetan Review Trust Society $23,000* To publish Tibetan Review, a monthly English-language news magazine that covers Tibet-related news and analysis. Voice of Tibet $20,000* 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 Center for International Private Enterprise $87,936 To support the Institute for the Study and Advancement of Business Ethics (LSPEU) to publish two editions of the Jurnal Reformasi Ekonomi, an Indonesian-language journal that covers key topics of reform such as corporate governance, democratic governance, and economic liberalization in transition economies, and to organize two workshops on related issues. Malaysia Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development $70,000* To support up-to-date documentation of the human rights situation in Malaysia by creating a human rights library and website; to carry out a number of thematic human rights awareness campaigns; to expand its human rights defenders network. International Republican Institute $200,000 To continue to develop local polling capacity and efficacy by supporting national and local opinion polls and focus-group research, including training for opinion researchers and reform-oriented users of opinion research. Southeast Asian Press Alliance $60,000 To strengthen independent media in Malaysia and conduct a capacity-building workshop for Malaysian journalists. Mongolia Liberal Emegteichuudiin Oyuny San (LEOS) $35,000 To support 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 $105,000 To support research into and dissemination of eyewitness accounts of human rights abuses and prison camp operations in North Korea, and to support the Citizens’ Alliance campaign to bring North Korean human rights issues to South Korean and international attention. Database Center for North Korean Human Rights $40,000* To create and maintain a comprehensive repository and database of available refugee testimonies regarding human rights conditions in North Korea, as well as a website to make the full-text access of the database available for the public. Democracy Network Against the North Korean Gulag $75,000* To enable the first human rights organization founded by survivors of the North Korean gulag to conduct research and campaign on the topic of North Korean human rights, by chronicling the prison camp system, producing a report on public executions and conducting a campaign to focus on a “list of the missing.” Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights $60,000 To engage in a wide-ranging program of research, campaigns, and public education designed to draw South Korean and international attention to issues of democratization and human rights in North Korea, including the publication of periodicals in Korean, English, and Japanese, and the maintenance of a bilingual website. Pakistan American Center for International Labor Solidarity $309,805 To enhance communications between union members and their elected representatives; for rights-based trade union education and workshops for local labor leaders; and to support the efforts of several Pakistani NGOs and labor groups working to eliminate child labor, uphold the rights of female workers, and monitor and report on the labor situation. Democratic Commission for Human Development $50,000* To support a civic education program in the Northwest Frontier Province to foster the principles of secular democracy, freedom, nonviolent political discourse, and global engagement. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs $99,680 To work with local civic organizations to conduct an in-depth analysis of the Freedom of Information Ordinance, produce an informational booklet, and conduct targeted training. Sri Lanka American Center for International Labor Solidarity $203,639 To support the development of a labor research institute; to support the rights of women workers; and to promote civil society among migrant workers. Center for International Private Enterprise $70,725 To support the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Sri Lanka to carryout research and advocacy efforts designed to promote a more open economic environment. People’s Action for Free and Fair Elections $15,000 To increase understanding of federalism among the general Sri Lankan population by providing examples of federal structures around the world, and to promote a joint Tamil-Sinhalese approach to constitutional reform, through workshops, training sessions, and a short film. 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 publicize human rights abuses in Vietnam. Center for International Private Enterprise $60,889 To support 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 $475,000 To provide support from its DC office for programs of the independent labor movement in exile to educate workers and other citizens, both inside Burma and in exile, about labor rights and democracy; and to document violations of internationally recognized labor rights. Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions $50,000 To hold in-country human rights investigation training courses for two of its members, the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand and the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka. International Centre for Ethnic Studies $50,000 To design and implement a South Asian regional training program to strengthen civil society organizations that focus on the promotion and protection of minority rights. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs $249,978 To work with the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats to provide technical assistance and information to political parties implementing internal anti-corruption reform measures, and to assist parties with constituent-outreach activities and increasing the involvement of the public in the development of the parties’ anti-corruption efforts. *Indicates funding source other than annual Congressional appropriation |
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