The NHRF approaches its work on this thematic area through direct project support, strategic alliances, capacity development, and focused communication and advocacy efforts. The NHRF’s support projects for inclusive societies free of discrimination and inequality in our priority countries.

Our grantee partners supported under this strategy work to end discrimination and secure a future of equality for marginalised and vulnerable groups on local, national and international levels. Some of them work with particular areas of discrimination for vulnerable groups, such as the protection of land and environmental rights for indigenous peoples, afro descendant population or labour rights and the rights of women at work.

Other grantee partners focus on women’s and other marginalised groups’ participation in decision-making processes on local, national and international levels. While doing so, they apply a perspective of intersectional discrimination. Variations on the struggle for gender equality that the NHRF support include, but are not limited to: tackling violence against women and girls; discrimination in the workplace and at home; digital security for women; WHRDs, and gender diverse people; equal access to and opportunity in the social, political, and economic spheres of society; advancing feminist agendas.

NHRF grantees work by using innovative, thoughtful, and adaptable methods. The work of our grantees demonstrates the range of methods that can be used to tackle discrimination and teaches us that there is not one right way to promote and protect human rights. Some of the strategies and working methods of our grantee partners include advocacy work, campaigns to raise awareness, competence building, activities for mobilisation, legal aid and other types of individual support.

Learn more in our latest annual report.