Celebrating human rights victories from 2022: Ordinary people doing extraordinary things

Take a look at the NHRF Annual Report for 2022, where we feature, among other things, 10 human rights victories from 2022.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and in our annual report for 2022 we therefore decided to share and celebrate ten human rights victories from the past year where our grantee partners have played a significant role in making positive change happen.

Human rights defenders are ordinary people who do extraordinary things. They work peacefully for the rights of others and help build civil and just societies based on the rule of law." Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders

Read the report below or download it here: NHRF Annual Report 2022

Human rights wins can be small or large, local or international, they can be more or less tangible, and sometimes they are difficult to spot. In a complex world, human rights work follows different timescales, is not linear, and is therefore hard to track.

In the annual report, we make an attempt to capture what human rights wins can mean. As you will see from our ten stories in the report, victory for us can mean prevention, institutional strengthening, and resilience in the face of challenging conditions. We celebrate these and all other victories.

During 2022, the Norwegian Human Rights Fund funded 125 grantee partners, and supported a total of 137 ongoing projects. 74 % of the supported organisations in 2022 are led by women, and 96 % have women in leadership positions. All of the supported projects worked with one or more of NHRF’s priorities: Work against discrimination, work against impunity and for access to justice, and human rights defenders at risk.

You will also get a visual glimpse of our activities of the last year in our photo highlight section.

Thank you for your support in 2022!