Publications

Our strategic plan outlines the scope of Urgent Action Fund’s work from 2018 through 2020. This comprehensive summary integrates our theory of change, the current human rights political landscape, and our strategic priorities.

The Urgent Action Fund Sister Funds turn an intersectional lens to the tidal wave of new restrictions, heightened violence, and existential challenges women’s human rights activists endure from regions as diverse as Poland, Uganda, Honduras, Turkey, to Spain. Collective strategizing is needed as we prepare for the next decade of human rights organizing.

The second in a series, this briefing is the first legal report of its kind documenting the gendered experiences of women’s human rights defenders amongst the growing trend of criminalized activism.

In collaboration with Mama Cash, we offer this report as a tool, resource, and testimony to inform the understanding of how closing space, in all its forms, has a gendered impact.