Urgent Action Fund For Women's Human Rights

Urgent Action Fund, as part of women’s rights movements worldwide, supports women's rights defenders working to create cultures of justice, equality and peace. We provide rapid response grants that enable strategic interventions, and participate in collaborative advocacy and research.

We are led by activists, inspired by feminism, and strengthened through solidarity.

Urgent Action Fund Makes Grants in Three Categories:

Response to armed conflict, escalating violence or politically volatile environments.
Potentially precedent-setting legal or legislative actions, or actions that aim to protect a precedent that has already been set.
Protection and security of women human rights defenders.

Urgent Action Fund was founded in 1997, following the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. The co-founders, Ariane Brunet, Margaret (Mudge) Schink and Julie Shaw, identified a severe gap between activists' needs in the face of crises or unexpected opportunities and the resources available to them, especially in areas experiencing armed conflict or escalating violence. Most donors required several months to process a grant request, but many interventions had only a small window of opportunity in which they could be effective.

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