Priorities and funded actions
Objective
To protect and empower individuals to contribute to the full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Turkey.
Priorities
Priority 1 – Right to fair trial, fight against impunity, prevention of torture and ill-treatment, and/or human rights in prison.
Priority 2 – Freedom of expression, assembly, and/or association.
Priority 3 – Children’s rights, women’s rights, combating gender-based violence, and/or rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) persons.
Priority 4 – Non-discrimination, rights of persons belonging to minorities, and/or freedom of religion or belief.
Each action is required to focus on one priority.
Among financed actions
- Provision of psychosocial, medical, legal assistance and any other type of support
- Documenting and reporting on cases of human rights violations
- Capacity strengthening of CSOs, democracy activists and human rights defenders
- Advocacy, lobbying and development of strategies by CSOs to push for legal reform, to influence policy-making, or to counter restrictions imposed by states on CSOs and other non-state actors
- Promoting inclusive and strategic partnerships, networking and cooperation with CSOs and other relevant stakeholders or among CSOs
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 30 and 48 months
Eligibility
- Be a legal person
- Be non-profit-making
- Be a civil society organisation