EarthRights International
For General Operating Support
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Amount$600,000
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Program
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Date Awarded2/18/2021
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Overview
EarthRights International defends human rights and promotes environmental justice through litigation and legal advocacy, training and leadership development, and policy advocacy and education campaigns. In addition to the grassroots legal defense and empowerment work with individuals and resource-rich communities, EarthRights also pioneers international norms and standards that promote corporate and governmental responsibility for transparent and accountable natural resource extraction. EarthRights deepens the legal empowerment of resource-rich communities and individual environmental activists to enable them to protect and defend their rights and environments and promote responsible and accountable natural resource extraction in the Amazon and Mekong regions. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.earthrights.org
Address
1612 K Street NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC, 20006, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
EarthRights International defends human rights and promotes environmental justice through litigation and legal advocacy, training and leadership development, and public policy and education campaigns. In addition to the grassroots legal defense and empowerment work with individuals and resource-rich communities, EarthRights also pioneers international norms and standards that promote corporate and governmental responsibility for transparent and accountable natural resource extraction. EarthRights will focus on legal empowerment of resource-rich communities to enable them to protect and defend their rights and environments.
