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Human rights and democracy – Individual Measure for Human Rights and Democracy for Uzbekistan – 2022

Human rights and democracy - Individual Measure for Human Rights and Democracy for Uzbekistan, aiming at supporting and strengthening civil society organisations, democracy activists and human-rights defenders working on critical human rights and democracy.

2022-08-12

2.09 million euro

Priorities and funded actions

Objectives

Promotion and protection of: human rights and fundamental freedoms; democracy; and the rule of law
Protecting and empowering of the civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights
To strengthen capacities of CSOs and independent media to exercise fundamental freedoms to protect and support journalists, bloggers and other media workers
Safeguarding fundamental freedoms and addressing the challenges of new technologies: to create and maintain an environment conducive to the full exercise of all fundamental freedoms, online and offline

Priorities

Priority 1: strengthening capacities of civil society, contributing to policy dialogue on gender equality and women’s rights and enabling the active participation and inclusive growth and decision-making through women empowerment.
Priority 2: strengthening capacities of civil society organisations to exercise fundamental freedoms, to promote and protect freedom of opinion and expression by ensuring transparency and accountability
Priority 3: promotion of representation, participation and active engagement of youth in decisions-making and reform processes
Priority 4: promoting inclusion and respect of fundamental rights of members of vulnerable groups
Priority 5: supporting freedom of expression, freedom of the media, unrestricted access to information and fight against disinformation, with respect to new and digital technologies
Priority 6: promoting awareness of human rights protection issues, encouraging a positive human rights discourse in the digital environment and countering negative trends
Priority 7: protection of and support for human-rights defenders

Among financed actions

Promoting greater contact and cooperation between civic and political actors, including by fostering mechanisms for structured dialogue;
Promoting the inclusion of women, young people, and other marginalised groups in formal and informal decision making structures;
Capacity building to help civic and political players develop responsive policy platforms that adequately represent the public interest, granting assistance to local registered and non-registered CSOs;
Awareness-raising and communication campaigns on specific human-rights issues;
Documenting and reporting on cases of human rights violations;
Supporting the collection of appropriate information, including statistical and research data, to enable governments to formulate and implement policies;

Additional information

This call for proposals is a restricted call for proposals. In first instance, only concept notes will be evaluated.
Initial duration of the action: between 24 and 36 months

Eligibility

Be a legal person or an entity without legal personality or a natural person
Be non-profit-making
Be a non-governmental civil society organisation (international intergovernmental organisations are ineligible)
Be established in a Member State of the European Union or any territory as no nationality restriction applies to applicants and, if any, to co-applicants, and affiliated entities

Human rights and democracy – Individual Measure for Human Rights and Democracy for Uzbekistan – 2022

Additional information

Priorities and funded actions

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