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Welcome! Whether you seek or make human rights grants, or are interested in exploring the relevance of human rights for your work, we hope you find the site a valuable resource.

Although the IHRFG does not make grants, the Funders Directory lists funders that do, including the Fund for Global Human Rights.

Obama seeks to join global Rights of Child pact
June 22, 2009 - John Heilprin, The Guardian
The Obama administration is reviving efforts to have the United States sign onto a global children's rights treaty ratified by every U.N. member except the U.S. and Somalia, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said Monday.  Go to article...

Climate-refugee problem attracts global attention
May 29, 2009 - Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times
Growing concerns over the fate of as many as 200 million climate refugees in the coming decades are raising the issue's profile among international policymakers and diplomats, with the United Nations General Assembly prepared to vote on a resolution linking climate change to global security. Stark differences of opinion among countries remain on what, if any, action should be taken. Go to article...

Climate change drying up big rivers, study finds
April 21, 2009 - Reuters, Reuters
Rivers in some of the world's most populated regions are losing water, many because of climate change, researchers reported in April. Affected rivers include the Yellow River in northern China, the Ganges in India, the Niger in West Africa, and the Colorado in the southwestern United States. Go to article...

Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool
February 1, 2009 - Greg Miller, Washington Post
The CIA's secret prisons are being shuttered. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantanamo Bay will eventually go back to being a wind-swept naval base on the southeastern corner of Cuba. But even while dismantling these programs, President Obama left intact an equally controversial counter-terrorism tool: renditions... Go to article...

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