Human Rights Training and Education

Within its Human Rights Training & Education docket, the USHRF has supported a range of diverse training activities including:

• Expanding the organizational capacity of human rights training providers
• Providing issue-specific training in multiple issue areas, and
• Addressing specialized training needs across different kinds of human rights advocates, including:
  • Advanced training for U.S. human rights leaders,
  • In-depth legal training and consultation for litigators, and
  • In-depth training for organizer activists.

Grants in this area aim to increase the quality and effectiveness of U.S. human rights organizing and advocacy work. Examples of support are: increased organizational knowledge of human rights law and advocacy, and peer-to-peer training in the application of human rights strategies to particular issue areas (e.g. organizing, fact-finding, or the use of regional or international mechanisms).