Freedom of Information
Promoting Access to Independent News
$73,000
Public Summary: To promote access to independent news and analysis on the political, social, human rights, and economic situation in Turkmenistan. The organization will produce daily news coverage on human rights, political, and economic developments inside Turkmenistan. It will publish the content to its website and to multiple social media platforms, maximizing possibilities for access from within Turkmenistan. It will also conduct extensive human rights advocacy at the U.N., the OSCE, and other international bodies. This organization has been using its extensive in-country network of contributors to provide independent news from inside Turkmenistan since 2010
Human Rights
Promoting Human Rights
$163,200
Public Summary: To address systemic human rights abuses in Turkmenistan. The organization will conduct a multi-faceted human rights campaign aimed at documenting systematic efforts by the government of Turkmenistan to suppress the fundamental rights and freedoms of its citizens. It will research the fates of political prisoners and conduct human rights advocacy with European and international bodies. It will publish regular meetings and hold online and offline briefings and coordination meetings. The organization has supported Turkmen human rights activists for over a decade. Its campaign to document the fates of Turkmenistan’s enforced disappeared, launched in 2013, networked Crude Accountability with a wide selection of in-country and exiled Turkmen activists, as well as European and International policymakers
Human Rights
Legal Aid Clinic
$47,400
Public Summary: To enhance the quality and accessibility of reliable and detailed information about human rights legislation in Turkmenistan. The project will provide free legal aid to vulnerable populations in the capital of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, and maintain a comprehensive database of Turkmenistan’s legislation. The project will provide legal advice and assistance, collect legislation in Russian and Turkmen for a database, publish legal information to a website, and monitor the current state of human rights in Turkmenistan. The organization has been providing legal assistance to Turkmen citizens for more than twenty years. It is one of the few organizations capable of providing analysis of the Turkmen legal system
Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights
Promoting Access to Independent News
$82,000
Public Summary: To promote access to independent news and analysis on the political, social, and economic situation in Turkmenistan. The organization will maintain its existing in-country network of correspondents who will report on conditions inside the country. It will publish breaking news and independent analysis on its website in Russian, Turkmen and English.
Human Rights
Organizing Diaspora Communities
$75,000
Public Summary: To protect human rights in Central Asia and in the diaspora In Central Asia, the organization will maintain and expand its discreet, experienced network of sources of critical information on human rights violations and the political situation, sharing developments and analysis with international organizations. In the diaspora, the organization will nurture recent emerging groups of exile activists, who are beginning to mobilize in ways that are impossible in their home countries, including through an expanded social media presence
Human Rights
Promoting Human Rights
$75,000
Public Summary: To address systemic human rights abuses in Turkmenistan. The organization will conduct a multi-faceted human rights campaign aimed at documenting systematic efforts by the government of Turkmenistan to suppress the fundamental rights and freedoms of its citizens. It will research the fates of political prisoners and conduct human rights advocacy with European and international bodies. It will publish regular meetings and hold online and offline briefings and coordination meetings.
