Description: Max. Grant Amount: US$15,000
Pursuant to resolution 46/122 of the United Nations General Assembly, the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery allocates grants (as a rule, for a maximum of US$15,000), for projects aiming to provide humanitarian, legal and financial assistance to individuals whose human rights have been severely violated as a result of contemporary forms of slavery.
Contemporary forms of slavery include, inter alia, chattel slavery, serfdom, forced labour, debt bondage, the worst forms of child labour including children in armed conflict, forced and early marriage, sale of wives, widow inheritance, trafficking in persons, sexual slavery, sale of children.
Grants will be awarded to organizations providing direct assistance to victims of contemporary forms of slavery, including medical, psychological, legal, educational, social and economic assistance.
Eligibility:
Applications from all regions will be accepted.
All applications must be submitted in English, French or Spanish. As a rule, organisations that have received a grant from the Fund in the last five years are not required to submit all the documents listed in the Fund’s Guidelines (paragraph 29), as long as they certify that the information contained in the documents provided with the previous application(s) is still valid. If it is not the case, they should submit updated documents.
Deadline: 31 May 2012
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