Advancing Human Rights: 2018 Key Findings

Human Rights Funders Network is pleased to share our new analysis of the human rights funding landscape: Advancing Human Rights: Annual Review of Global Foundation Grantmaking –  2018 Key Findings.

In the wake of recent events – a pandemic, worldwide protests, new elections – 2018 may feel like a world away. As we look at the 2018 data, it’s important to understand that many of the human rights issues we currently face grew out of this context. Even responses to COVID-19 cannot be divorced from the foundational issues that shape how governments, social movements, and funders address – or compound – human rights abuses. In a year of so much global unrest, we see this report as a baseline and an offering, a trajectory of the trends that helps identify places where philanthropy can better meet the needs of human rights movements around the world.

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We are grateful for the contributions our research partners: Candid, Ariadne – European Funders for Social Change and Human Rights and Prospera–International Network of Women’s Funds.

If you are interested in contributing to this research or have any questions, please email us at AHR@hrfn.org.