Channel Foundation is thrilled to celebrate the incredible achievement of Joan Carling, a powerful advocate for Indigenous rights, who in October 2024, was honored with the prestigious Right Livelihood Award, often regarded as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” in Stockholm, Sweden....
Introducing the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders +25
On June 19, 2024, a new “Declaration on Human Rights Defenders +25,” was launched to mark a quarter-century since the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders was adopted. This Declaration is the result of collaborative and consultative efforts of at least 18 organizations including Channel grantee partner Front Line Defenders.…...
Defending Rights, Risking Lives in Mesoamerica
In October 2024, the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (IM-Defensoras) publicly launched their latest report “Data that Hurt Us, Networks that Save Us: 10+ Years of Attacks against Women Human Rights Defenders in Mesoamerica,” which outlines the alarming rise in violence against women human rights defenders (WHRDs) across…...
Report Analyzes Violence Against WHRDS
On June 18, 2024, Femena, a Channel grantee, spotlighted its research and new report titled “Silent No More: WHRDs in SWANA Speak Out About Sexual Violence by Security Forces at its event called Untold Stories of Resistance. The report highlights the sexual violence Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) experience by…...
New Online Feminist Healing Space Launched
FemFund Poland, a Channel grantee partner, in collaboration with Women’s Fund Armenia and Women’s Fund in Georgia, have launched Feminist Healing Space, an online space focused on collective healing, healing justice, and feminist values. With the support of Fenomenal Funds, a feminist funder collaborative, the space serves “as a library…...
Feminist Activism Without Fear
Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism (UAF), a Channel grantee since 2006, has launched a new campaign called, Feminist Activism Without Fear: Facing Risks with Collective Power and Care. This new initiative “not only amplifies the voices of feminist activists facing reprisals but also serves as a vital resource for…...
Special Report Highlights Femicide
Global Press, a longtime Channel grantee partner, released a special report on gender violence in Latin America and the Caribbean on November 25, 2023, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The five-part report includes an overview of femicide in Latin America over the past 15 years,…...
Report Released on Supporting Women Environmental Defenders
Global Greengrants Fund, a former Channel grantee partner, in collaboration with the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) and Strengthening Accountability in the Global Economy (SAGE) Fund released a new report on Oct. 24, 2023 called “Women on the Frontlines of Extractivism: How funders can support women environmental defenders”....
VidaAfrolatina Announces New Cohort of Grantees
On September 4, 2023, VidaAfrolatina, a Channel grantee partner, began announcing the members of their second cohort of grantees through a week-long social media campaign. The new cohort consists of 17 organizations “doing transformative work to cultivate the healing of Black women and girls in Latin America” and end sexual violence…...