Mission : Grounded in a human rights framework and focused on women in civil society, Urgent Action Fund is a human rights organization with a strategic mission.   Urgent Action Fund and Urgent Action Fund-Africa operate Rapid Response Grantmaking programs and Collaborative Initiatives linking justice, peacebuilding, security and women's human rights. As the only international women's fund in the world designed to respond on short notice, UAF collaborates with women activists in three primary contexts: peace building in situations of armed conflict, escalating violence, or politically volatile environments; potentially precedent-setting legal and legislative actions; and protection of women human rights defenders.   UAF joins with local women to build civil societies that honor their experiences and include women at every juncture, especially in areas of armed conflict and war, where they are most at risk.

Location : Boulder, CO, USA

Website : www.urgentactionfund.org

Channel grants : Channel made a grant to continue supporting the Urgent Action Fund's action research project Protecting and Sustaining Activism of Women Human Rights Defenders. (2007)

Channel made two grants to the Urgent Action Fund in 2006. One was intended to fund an action research project on Sustaining Activism of Women Human Rights Defenders and the other was intended to fund UAF's rapid response grantmaking in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. (2006)